CAMPBELL, CA, Jan 18, 2024 – Centric Software, the product lifecycle management (PLM) market leader, is pleased to announce that Chilean food company Wild Foods has selected Centric PLM to enable growth, optimize product development and speed time to market. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, price and sell food & beverage and consumer products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Headquartered in Chile and founded in 2017, Wild Foods aims to improve the status quo of the food industry by producing healthy and nutritious products while providing product transparency to consumers. High market acceptance is fueling rapid growth and the company seeks to further optimize product development while also ensuring quality and compliance across the board. Wild has a presence in Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and the United States.

Different challenges led Wild Foods to digitalize their product development process. “I’d say there were two important reasons: one is that we’ve grown. Three years ago we were 20 people working on four or five products, today we have more than 100 products available. Secondly, due to an error in a nutritional table, and that was the last straw. We decided that the standard of our products must be the best on the market,” explains Rodrigo Paredes Bassi, head of digital transformation at Wild Foods.

For a company that specializes in healthy and nutritious foods, assuring the quality and compliance of its products is key. Mistakes were an urgent sign that their old process was limiting business growth, both nationally and internationally. Paredes confirms, “Strategically speaking, another major deciding factor for investing in a digital R&D platform is the company’s growth. We need to keep opening up categories and speeding time-to-market.”

The search for a PLM began with approximately eight suppliers. “We chose Centric PLM Food & Beverage for its high usability and specialization—the software, as well as the professionals, are focused on this market,” Paredes says. “Centric Software was the platform that the development team liked the most. In addition, we talked to two companies that are already Centric clients, and these conversations were positive factors in our decision.”

“Our goal is to decrease time-to-market by 35%,” concludes Paredes. With the integration of all data, products and people—including suppliers—on one single platform, the company will cut down on costs, improve traceability, optimize the product range and simplify sourcing. All of this will certainly help Wild Brands to achieve its ambitious market expansion plans.”

“We are excited to support Wild Foods’ goal to improve the status quo. Wild puts the interest of their customers and transparency at the heart of all their innovations, aligning nicely with our own philosophy,” says Chris Groves, CEO of Centric Software.

About Wild Foods

The Chilean food company seeks to revolutionize the food industry with attitude, creativity and rock’n’roll. In 2017, the group of friends Felipe Hurtado, Pier Paolo Colonnello and Javier Castro got fed up with only finding unhealthy snacks in supermarkets and stores and decided to be the leaders in transforming the food industry. As of today, Wild Foods products are available in Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and the USA. Its proposals for change go beyond offering innovative and healthy high-quality products. The company seeks to persuade consumers to understand more fully what they are consuming, both in nutritional terms and in relation to the origin of the ingredients used and how the food is produced.

For more information, visit www.thewildfoods.com. 

About Centric Software

Silicon Valley-based Centric Software provides an innovative product concept-to-customer platform for producers, brands and retailers of all sizes in the food & beverage industry, food service and grocery retail sectors. Centric Software works closely with customers to achieve more efficient project management and safer product development, execute a competitive retail and product strategy, increase agility, speed time to market and get closer to consumers, resulting in maximized revenues and margins.

All solutions are highly configurable and built hand-in-hand with market-leading companies:

• Centric PLM streamlines product development, procurement, formulation, specification management, regulatory compliance, nutrition, quality assurance, packaging & artwork proofing, sustainability and product portfolio management.
• Centric Visual Boards improves team collaboration and optimizes range category management to get closer to consumers, be more competitive.
• Centric Planning delivers best-in-class, easy-to-use and visually driven financial, merchandise and product portfolio planning as well as store & vendor forecasting for seamless and fast, pre- and in-season execution.
• Centric Pricing and Inventory leverages AI to drive margin and revenue improvement by influencing demand via price and inventory optimization.
• Centric Market Intelligence is a market insights platform for data-informed decision-making on competitor offers and pricing. Provides consumer trends and buying behavior as well.

Centric Software proudly maintains a 100% go-live rate. Awarded for excellence by Just Food 3 times, by Frost & Sullivan several times and the recipient of many other regional accolades, Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team and to partner with the best customers.

Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.