Centric Software Listed in Gartner Competitive Landscape Report for Retail Price Optimization

Centric Software has been named in Gartner’s Competitive Landscape: Retail Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization Solutions report, which evaluates vendors supporting retailers with AI-powered pricing, promotion and markdown optimization capabilities. The report addresses challenges associated with legacy ERP systems and internally developed merchandising tools.

Centric Software provides integrated enterprise solutions that support product development and commercialization processes for companies in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics and personal care, as well as multi-category retail. These solutions cover planning, design, development, sourcing, compliance, buying, manufacturing, pricing, allocation, assortment, sales and replenishment functions.

The company manages pricing complexity through Centric Pricing & Inventory™, supported by Centric Market Intelligence™, which delivers AI-driven capabilities for pricing decisions across pre-season, in-season promotions and end-of-season markdown phases.

Centric Pricing & Inventory is designed for categories with short product lifecycles, including fashion, footwear and seasonal merchandise. The system enables centralized pricing strategies, cross-functional alignment and consistent execution across channels, regions and product hierarchies. This lifecycle-based pricing model is intended to support full-price sell-through and reduced reliance on markdowns.

In the report, Gartner identifies Centric Software as a Representative Vendor for unified price, promotion and markdown optimization solutions for retailers. The platform supports lifecycle pricing decisions using AI-based optimization and explainable decision logic to improve workflow transparency and execution speed.

Centric Software’s modular SaaS architecture allows localized pricing execution under centralized control, supporting scalability across multiple markets while maintaining operational flexibility. The company continues to expand its price management framework by linking pricing and inventory optimization with merchandise planning and market intelligence across the Centric platform to enable scenario planning and responsive pricing strategies.

“Being included in Gartner’s competitive landscape for unified price, promotion and markdown optimization solutions is an important recognition,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “As pricing decisions become more complex and increasingly influenced by AI, retailers need purpose-built solutions that bring speed, transparency and control to the entire pricing lifecycle. These capabilities are critical to protecting margins and staying competitive in fast-moving markets.”