AI-powered forecasting and real-time market insight drive precision pricing and smarter inventory decisions

CAMPBELL, Calif., Feb. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Centric Software^® is thrilled to announce new innovations to Centric Pricing & Inventory™ featuring a new AI-powered demand forecasting engine and intelligent AI functionality designed to drive pricing precision and inventory agility.

Centric Software delivers best-of-breed, integrated, AI-powered enterprise solutions that take product from concept to commercialization. Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics as well as multi-category retail companies can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

By combining AI-driven demand forecasting with lifecycle pricing, Centric Pricing & Inventory has helped select customers achieve revenue increases of up to 18%, based on internal analyses of specific implementations. Results vary depending on customer context and usage. Centric Pricing & Inventory is a modular platform built for speed and flexibility, optimizing pricing, inventory allocation, replenishment and stock rebalancing, while providing advanced analytics and market insights for optimal markdown management. This reduces unnecessary discounting and aligns demand with supply, ultimately boosting profitability. 

Centric Pricing & Inventory introduces several new capabilities designed to improve pricing agility, build AI trust and align pricing with real-time market conditions:

• A smarter, AI-powered demand forecasting engine
  At the core of Centric Pricing & Inventory is a new, centralized forecasting engine designed to improve demand prediction accuracy across the product lifecycle. From pre-season planning to in-season allocation and replenishment. It powers pricing, allocation, replenishment and markdown planning 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 delivers the best results when teams understand the "why" behind the recommendation. Centric Software's new generation of AI Agents breaks down price suggestions in plain language, explaining the key drivers such as demand shifts, competitor pricing or margin impact. 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 applying them, they trust AI more. That's why Centric Pricing & Inventory now includes enhanced simulation capabilities that enable users to safely model different business scenarios and see how outcomes change. Early pilots indicate that, in certain use cases, simulation tools were associated with increases in AI adoption of more than 25%. Results may vary.
• Market Intelligence built directly into daily decisions
  Guesswork is reduced. Frequently refreshed competitor insights inform daily pricing and forecasting decisions. Centric Pricing & Inventory now connects live shelf pricing, automated product matching and AI-enriched attributes straight into pricing and forecasting workflows. This gives retailers a clear view of what's happening in the market at any given moment, so pricing strategies reflect both internal goals and external realities like promotions, new product drops, or tariff changes.
• Actionable analytics that drive measurable impact
  It's not always obvious if AI decisions are paying off. Centric Pricing & Inventory includes intuitive dashboards that clearly show how AI recommendations are performing, whether it's boosting margins, improving forecast accuracy or increasing sell-through. Teams can see what's working and where to focus next using side-by-side comparisons with traditional approaches and confidence scoring to guide smarter next steps.

Customers are already seeing measurable results with Centric Pricing & Inventory.

"We have reduced our price reductions by about 2.5%. That translates into a 1% margin increase, which, on a 300 million-euro turnover, is a 3 million-euro increase to our bottom line. That is quite a lot; more than we were expecting at the beginning of the project," says Josef-Bernd Oswald, Product and Merchandise Manager at Leder & Schuh Group (LSAG).

"We developed our latest Centric Pricing & Inventory innovations in close partnership with leading global retailers to address real-world challenges with real-world results," says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. "We're delivering an intelligent, modular platform that not only recommends the best path forward—it proves it. This is AI that's transparent, measurable and designed to grow with our customers."

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From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. 

• Centric PLM™, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.  
• Centric Planning™ is an innovative, cloud-native, AI solution delivering end-to-end planning capabilities to maximize retail and wholesale business performance, including SKU optimization, resulting in an up to 110% increase in margins.  
• Centric Pricing & Inventory™ leverages AI to drive margins and boost revenues by up to 18% via price and inventory optimization from pre-season to in-season to season completion.  
• Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitively and get closer to the consumer, driving up to a 12% increase in average initial price point. 
• Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time. 
• Centric PXM^TM, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins. 

Centric Software's market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly 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 mock-up and PLM solutions. 

Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software, Inc. in the US 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 trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.

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