AI-driven forecasts and real-time market insights enable accurate pricing and smarter inventory decisions.
CAMPBELL, California., February 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Software-centric® is excited to announce new innovations for Centric Pricing & Inventory™, including a new AI-powered demand forecasting engine and intelligent AI functionality designed to improve pricing accuracy and inventory agility.
Centric Software provides cutting-edge, integrated, AI-driven enterprise solutions that take product from concept to commercialization. Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food and beverage, cosmetics and personal care, and consumer electronics companies, as well as multi-category retail companies, can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, manufacture, price, allocate, sort, sell, and replenish their products to achieve their strategic and operational digital transformation goals.
By combining AI-driven demand forecasting with lifecycle pricing, Centric Pricing & Inventory has helped some clients achieve revenue increases of up to 18%, based on internal analyzes of specific implementations. Results vary depending on customer context and usage. Centric Pricing & Inventory is a modular platform designed for speed and flexibility, optimizing pricing, inventory allocation, replenishment and inventory rebalancing, while providing advanced analytics and market insights for optimal markdown management. This reduces unnecessary discounts and aligns demand with supply, thereby increasing profitability.
Centric Pricing & Inventory introduces several new features designed to improve pricing agility, build confidence in AI, and align prices with real-time market conditions:
- A smarter, AI-powered demand forecasting engine
At the heart of Centric Pricing & Inventory is a new centralized forecasting engine designed to improve the accuracy of demand forecasts throughout the product lifecycle. From pre-season planning to in-season allocation and restocking. It helps plan pricing, allocation, replenishment, and markdowns with a single forecast shared by all teams. The same forecasting engine is also available in Centric Planning™, so pre-season assortment and merchandise financial plans are built on the same demand signals that drive execution in Centric Pricing & Inventory. - AI agents that make price recommendations easy to understand
AI works best when teams understand the “why” behind the recommendation. Centric Software’s next generation of AI agents breaks down price suggestions into simple language, explaining key factors such as changes in demand, competitor pricing or impact on margins. These insights demystify AI decisions and replace “black box” complexity with clarity. - Simulation capabilities for strategy testing and AI adoption
When teams can test pricing or inventory strategies before implementing them, they trust AI more. That’s why Centric Pricing & Inventory now includes enhanced simulation capabilities that allow users to safely model different business scenarios and see how results change. Early pilots indicate that in some use cases, simulation tools were associated with an increase in AI adoption of more than 25%. Results may vary. - Market intelligence integrated directly into daily decisions
Guesswork is reduced. Frequently updated competitor information informs daily pricing and forecasting decisions. Centric Pricing & Inventory now connects shelf pricing, automated product matching, and AI-enriched attributes directly into pricing and forecasting workflows. This gives retailers a clear view of what’s happening in the market at any given time, so pricing strategies reflect both internal goals and external realities such as promotions, new product drops or pricing changes. - Actionable analytics that drive measurable impact
It’s not always clear that AI decisions are working. Centric Pricing & Inventory includes intuitive dashboards that clearly show how AI recommendations are performing, whether it’s increasing margins, improving forecast accuracy, or increasing sales. Teams can see what’s working and what to focus on next using side-by-side comparisons with traditional approaches and trust assessment to guide smarter next steps.
Customers are already seeing measurable results with Centric Pricing & Inventory.
“We have reduced our price reductions by around 2.5%. This translates into a margin increase of 1%, which, on a turnover of 300 million euros, represents an increase of 3 million euros in our net profit. This is a lot, more than we expected at the start of the project,” says Josef-Bernd Oswald, head of products and merchandise at the Leder & Schuh Group (LSAG).
“We developed our latest Centric Pricing & Inventory innovations in close collaboration with leading global retailers to address real-world challenges with real-world results,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “We offer an intelligent, modular platform that not only recommends the best path forward, but proves it. It is AI that is transparent, measurable, and designed to scale with our customers.”
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From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software delivers an innovative, AI-driven product design platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As an expert in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care, and multi-category retail, Centric Software provides best-in-class solutions for planning, designing, developing, sourcing, complying, buying, manufacturing, pricing, assigning, selling and replenishing products.
- centered PLM™, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private labels, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacturing, achieving up to 50% productivity improvement and 60% reduction in time to market.
- Centered Planning™ is an innovative, cloud-native AI solution providing end-to-end planning capabilities to maximize performance for retail and wholesale businesses, including SKU optimization, leading to increased margins up to 110%.
- Centric™ Pricing and Inventory leverages AI to drive margins and increase revenue by up to 18% through pricing and inventory optimization, from pre-season to end of season.
- Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-powered platform that provides insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to strengthen competitiveness and get closer to the consumer, leading to up to 12% increase in average initial price.
- Central Visual Boards™pivot actionable data into a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-responsive product assortments and offerings, significantly reducing assortment development cycle time.
- PXM centeredTMAI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication, and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product-to-market lifecycle, resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, drive sales and increase margins.
Centric Software’s market-driven solutions feature the industry’s fastest user adoption, customer satisfaction and time to value. Centric Software has received numerous industry awards and recognitions, regularly appearing in world-leading analyst reports and research.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital modeling and PLM solutions.
Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Centric PLM, Centric Planning, Centric Pricing & Inventory, Centric Market Intelligence, Centric Visual Boards, Centric PXM, Centric PIM, Centric DAM, Centric Shoppingfeed® and Centric DSA (including Centric Digital Shelf Analytics) are trademarks of Centric Software, Inc. All third-party marks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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