Centric Software Launches Centric DPP, Extending Decades of Product Lifecycle Expertise to Digital Product Passports
Centric DPP connects and governs fragmented enterprise product data, creating a trusted foundation for product transparency, circular business models, customer engagement and future product intelligence.
CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Centric Software is pleased to announce the global availability of Centric DPP, a standalone Digital Product Passport solution for brands, retailers and manufacturers. Centric DPP extends Centric Software's established product lifecycle and product data expertise into Digital Product Passport operations at scale. Centric Software provides AI-powered enterprise solutions that connect product development, supply chain and commerce, creating a trusted product data foundation from concept to commercialization.
Under the European Union's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), new Digital Product Passport requirements will introduce greater expectations for sharing trusted product, sustainability, circularity and supply chain information. But regulation is only the trigger. Product transparency represents a broader shift in how product information is governed, maintained and shared across the lifecycle.
That shift has implications far beyond compliance. The same structured, governed product information needed for DPP can also power repair, resale and take-back models, strengthen post-purchase customer experiences and create a trusted data foundation for future analytics and AI-driven product intelligence.
For many organizations, the challenge is not a lack of data. Product information already exists across PLM, ERP, supplier, sustainability, traceability and other enterprise systems, but it is often fragmented, inconsistent and difficult to mobilize for Digital Product Passports.
Centric DPP creates a governed digital layer for product transparency, connecting information from existing enterprise systems to create, register, publish and maintain Digital Product Passports. Its open architecture preserves existing technology investments while native connections to Centric PLM™ and Centric PXM™ extend trusted product information from product development through passport operations to customer-facing experiences.
"For PCNA, DPP readiness is about being proactive rather than reactive," says Brennen Volbeda, Senior Director of Digital Experience and Data Strategy at PCNA. "We're already seeing requests from some of our largest customers for more detailed product and sustainability information, and we expect those demands to grow. By putting the right product data foundation in place with Centric PLM and extending it through Centric DPP, we can make that information easier to manage, track and share, reduce the risk of scrambling later and be ready as requirements evolve."
Centric DPP enables brands, retailers and manufacturers to meet emerging requirements and turn governed product information into a strategic asset:
- Connect product, supplier, sustainability, traceability, compliance and commercial information from existing enterprise systems.
- Structure and govern DPP-ready information with controlled processes for ongoing passport management.
- Create, register, publish and maintain Digital Product Passports at scale, with persistent URLs and access through QR codes, NFC and other supported data carriers.
- Use trusted DPP data beyond compliance to power circular business models, enrich post-purchase customer experiences and feed analytics and AI-driven product intelligence.
"Digital Product Passports mark a long-term shift in how product information is created, governed and shared," says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. "DPP requires more than a QR code or a short-term compliance tool. It requires trusted product data, enterprise-scale operations and a technology that can evolve with products, regulations and business models. Centric DPP brings decades of product lifecycle expertise to this challenge, turning compliance into a long-term product data asset that strengthens transparency and creates a foundation for circular business models, richer digital experiences and AI-driven product intelligence."
Centric DPP builds on more than two decades of experience managing the complex upstream product, material, supplier, certificate, sustainability and commercial information that Digital Product Passports depend on. Centric Software combines global enterprise scale with sustained investment in product data, AI and digital commerce to evolve Centric DPP as products, markets and regulatory requirements change.
For Centric customers, Centric PLM™ connects governed product, material, supplier, certificate and sustainability information with DPP operations, while Centric PXM™ extends enriched and localized content across customer-facing and commerce channels. Together, this ecosystem reduces duplicate data management across product creation, passport operations and customer experiences.
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About Centric Software® (www.centricsoftware.com)
From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.
- Centric PLM™, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
- Centric Planning & Pricing™, a cloud-native solution powered by Centric AI that unifies planning, pricing and inventory optimization, enabling retailers and brands to increase sell-through, improve margins and optimize inventory efficiency from pre-season through in-season execution.
- Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitively and get closer to the consumer, driving up to a 12% increase in average initial price point.
- Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.
- Centric DPP, a standalone, open solution, connects and governs enterprise product data to create, register, publish and maintain Digital Product Passports at scale, with native Centric PLM™ and Centric PXM™ connections extending product transparency from product creation through commercialization, customer engagement and circularity.
- Centric PXM™, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.
Centric Software's market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.
Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. Centric PLM™, Centric Planning & Pricing™, Centric Market Intelligence™, Centric Visual Boards™, Centric PXM™, Centric PIM™, Centric DAM™, Centric Shoppingfeed® and Centric DSA™ (including Centric Digital Shelf Analytics) are trademarks of Centric Software, Inc. All third-party trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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