Centric Software is pleased to announce that DOUGLAS Group, Europe’s leading omnichannel premium beauty retailer, has selected Centric PLM™ to modernize and scale its Corporate Brands product development ecosystem as part of its enterprise-wide digital transformation strategy focused on innovation. Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization. Food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care, grocery and multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, formulate, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.
Headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, the DOUGLAS Group is Europe’s leading omnichannel premium beauty destination. Through its commercial brands DOUGLAS, NOCIBÉ, Parfumdreams and Niche Beauty, the Group offers unparalleled access to beauty customers across Europe via its online platforms and around 1,970 stores across 22 countries. The DOUGLAS Group is a trusted partner for leading global beauty brands and one of the most important players in the European beauty market. Its Corporate Brands business represents a strategically important part of the Group’s portfolio.
As DOUGLAS Group’s Corporate Brands business evolved, the increasing scale and complexity of product development highlighted opportunities to streamline manual processes across internal teams, supplier networks and regulatory stakeholders. Product information, approvals and documentation were distributed across multiple processes, making visibility, traceability and standardization difficult to maintain at scale. Growing regulatory requirements and supplier collaboration challenges underscored the need for a more structured approach to compliance and product development.
“As our Corporate Brands business continued to grow, we recognized the need for greater transparency, consistency and control across our product development processes. Our priority was to find a scalable PLM platform that could centralize product information, strengthen regulatory compliance and establish a foundation for future growth while transforming fragmented processes into a connected and collaborative product development ecosystem,“ says Lena Krömer, SVP Corporate Brands at DOUGLAS Group.
After evaluating several solutions, DOUGLAS Group selected Centric PLM for its deep cosmetics and personal care expertise, proven Corporate Brands capabilities and robust Product Information File (PIF), regulatory compliance and workflow governance functionality. Centric PLM’s end-to-end product lifecycle management capabilities, combined with its intuitive and highly configurable platform, further differentiated the solution. valantic was selected as the implementation partner, bringing technological expertise and industry know-how to deliver a seamless deployment, streamline processes and reinforce collaboration.
“Centric PLM stood out for its ability to combine supplier collaboration, compliance management and end-to-end traceability within a single platform. It provides the scalability, visibility and single source of truth we need to accelerate innovation and enable the continued growth of our Corporate Brands business”, continues Lena Krömer, SVP Corporate Brands at DOUGLAS Group.
With Centric PLM, DOUGLAS Group expects to speed time to market for its Corporate Brands products, strengthen supplier relationships and improve visibility across innovation workflows while enhancing compliance and regulatory governance through centralized product information.
We are proud to partner with DOUGLAS Group and valantic on this strategic initiative,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO at Centric Software. “By combining deep cosmetics and personal care expertise with advanced regulatory capabilities, Centric PLM provides DOUGLAS Group with the foundation to streamline product development, strengthen compliance and accelerate Corporate Brands innovation. We look forward to supporting the company’s next phase of growth.”
