Centric PLM Named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s 2025 Market Guide for PLM in Food & Beverage Industries

Centric Software^® is proud to announce that Centric PLM^TM for food & beverage has been named a representative vendor in Gartner’s ‘2025 Market Guide for PLM in Food and Beverage Industries.’ Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to design, develop, formulate, source, comply, buy, make, package, market and sell consumer goods products in food & beverage, grocery and multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Gartner is a leading global technological research and consulting firm providing actionable insights to thousands of enterprises worldwide.

A one-size-fits-all PLM system is not the most effective for each vertical. Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) such as food & beverage have unique needs not always covered by traditional PLM systems. Meeting the specific requirements of the food & beverage space requires agility, short commercialization times and ways to track certifications, sustainability goals and regulatory compliance.

Gartner found that food & beverage manufacturers have been using multiple software applications to address the different elements of PLM. It lists the mandatory features for food & beverage PLM as:

• specification and formula management
• revision and access control
• Lifecycle workflows and change management
• Ingredient data management
• Ingredient search and selection
• Label data management
• Supplier collaboration

Centric PLM not only supports these core features, but also delivers advanced capabilities including:

• Packaging and nutrition labeling
• Automated workflows
• Vendor portal for real-time collaboration
• AI-powered formula matching and least-cost formulation (LCF)
• Multi-language, multi-country compliance and label capabilities
• Digital thread across the product lifecycle
• Seamless integrations ERP, LIMS, MES and other enterprise systems

empowering companies to speed time to market, streamline product and packaging development while achieving fast ROI.

In uncertain conditions like changing regulations and newly levied tariffs, companies can track compliance and certifications across regions, perform ‘what-if’ scenarios with respect to costing, nutrition labels and ingredient listings for multiple countries in many languages.

With Centric PLM for food & beverage, brands and manufacturers have a unified digital platform to house all product data, reducing errors and accelerating development by centralizing collaboration and providing real-time visibility across teams.

‘We’re honored to be named in Gartner’s Market Guide,’ says Chris Groves, CEO of Centric Software. ‘Centric PLM for food & beverage is purpose-built to enable brands and manufacturers to tackle product complexity, regulatory challenges, and accelerate product innovation with AI and digital transformation.’