Centric Software's Design-to-Order Innovation Solution Maximizes Custom Configured Product Throughput

Design-to-Order maximizes customer-driven innovation through rapid response and validation of custom-configured products

MICAD, PARIS, March 27, 2002 - Centric Software, Inc., the leading provider of Collaborative Product Innovation (CPI) solutions for the globally distributed design chain, today introduced Centric Software's Design-to-Order(tm) - the second in a family of new innovation solutions that enables manufacturers and their supplier network to rapidly converge on accurate responses for custom-configured products.

"Rapidly developing and validating custom-configured products is a key competitive differentiation," said Ed Miller, president of CIMdata. "Centric Software's Design-to-Order solution is targeted toward achieving this differentiation by facilitating the capture of new product target attributes and managing the process of converging on a compelling, validated solution."

The solution allows manufacturers to cut response time to custom-configured products by 50 percent through rapid development and validation of a concept BOM (cBOM). Centric Innovation Design-to-Order (D2O) adds velocity to the product delivery process by organizing the extended team around a total product objective, quickly identifying customer needs, mapping to possible alternatives, leveraging corporate assets, and digitally validating product functionality throughout development. It enables customers to see these results more quickly and participate in the product's development, assuring customer acceptance by developing products that meet or exceed their requirements.

"At Square D, we are committed to continually enriching the customer experience and ensuring that their needs are not only met, but exceeded. This is particularly important for our customized, designed-to-order business, which requires significant hands-on engineering involvement," said Dave Guidette, VP of Engineering. "Through our implementation of Centric Innovation[mtk5] , we incorporate the customer into the development process - increasing product value as the 'voice of the customer' is heard from the project's outset, and concepts are digitally validated throughout development. This increased efficiency enables our team to drastically decrease order fulfillment time from as much as eight weeks to a few days, and therefore increase volume of business achieved by 20 to 30 percent."

Centric Software's Design-to-Order enables manufacturers and their supplier network to boost product delivery capacity and cut response time, thereby realizing an increase in the volume of responses. It also allows enterprises to quickly determine a product's viability and profitability. Manufactures can maximize end-product innovation by managing supplier relationships, thus better leveraging core competencies of this extended supplier network. The solution is incremental and complements existing infrastructure.

About Centric Software

Centric Software, Inc. accelerates process and product innovation by empowering manufacturers to maximize the expertise of their entire supplier network to deliver compelling, market-dominating products within critical windows of opportunity. Centric Software's Collaborative Product Innovation (CPI) software solutions enable complete team collaboration to define, synthesize and validate next generation products over the web. Centric Innovation integrates disparate data as well as business and technical processes from the extended enterprise into a single unified environment, enabling manufacturers to optimize all three levels of innovation - linear, customer-driven and radical innovation. Centric Software is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and provides sales and support services to its customers through its offices worldwide. 

www.centricsoftware.com

 

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