Centric Software Launches AI Integration Solution at NRF Europe
Mon, September 14, 2026 at 8:30 PM GMT+3 2 min read
Centric Software has been a leader in AI, with many of its solutions leveraging the technology. Now the company is taking it one step further with Centric AI, which integrates the company's AI solutions to make product lifecycle decisions and workflows faster and easier for retailers and brands.
The company is debuting Centric AI at NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show Europe, which takes place Sept. 15-17 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.
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"Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization," the company said in a statement Monday. "Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, consumer electronics, food and beverage, cosmetics and personal care as well as multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals."
The timing of the launch of Centric AI comes as retailers and brands increase investments in generative and agentic AI solutions. Centric said companies are moving AI from experimentation into day-to-day operations and doing so with a growing focus on "measurable business impact."
Centric said this shift is especially relevant across the entire product lifecycle, where decisions combine a variety of factors such as compliance requirements, product data and market demand. So, as brands and retailers manage more products, channels and regulatory requirements, "teams have more information to evaluate but less time to act."
Centric said the business impact is measurable with Centric AI. Clients running Centric AI alongside its other solutions reclaim 90 to 98 percent of the time previously spent on manual work. As a result, retailers and brands are seeing 2 to 5 percent gains in gross margin as well as a 5 percent increase in sell-through rates via faster and better-informed pricing, assortment and inventory decisions.
Vincent Picou, chief AI officer at Centric Software, said, "The near-term value of Centric AI is clear: take repetitive operational work off teams' plates and give people back time. The greater opportunity is ahead—AI agents that evaluate more alternatives and weigh competing constraints in seconds, so every recommendation is already tested against the trade-offs that matter."
Picou said human expertise doesn't disappear, but it moves "to judgment calls and the exceptions only people can resolve."
"Our strategy is simple: invest in AI where it delivers measurable gains in margin, speed and growth," said Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. "As AI moves from experimentation into the heart of business operations, Centric AI builds on decades of product data, workflows and industry expertise to turn AI into a competitive advantage and drive lasting value for our customers."
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