Case Study: Nina Ricci reduces time to market by 15 days with Centric Software (Centric 8 PLM)

Building Upstream Collaboration and Reducing Time to Market a Success Story from Nina Ricci

Nina Ricci, the historic French luxury fashion house, was struggling to manage 250 styles per season and up to 350 samples using disconnected spreadsheets, paper documents and email. With four collections and two pre-collections a year, Emmanuel Debaene, Operations Director, saw an impending information crisis: stale files, confused revisions and duplicate data were delaying decisions and threatening the brand’s time to market.

Nina Ricci implemented Centric 8 PLM (materials-first, live in three months) with dedicated Klartis support and mobile apps, integrating PLM with its ERP to centralize the product lifecycle and speed collaboration. The result: time to market cut by 15 days, material purchase errors down 30%, data errors reduced 20–30%, faster costing and pricing, and roughly 10 days saved per collection on data-entry and information searches.

Nina Ricci

Emmanuel Debaene

Operations Director