#552 Modernizing Product Development: Why Footwear Brands Can't Afford To Wait

This is Episode 1 of a special five-part Shoe-In Show series in partnership with Centric Software: What's Driving Footwear's New Operational Transformation. In this episode, Andy Polk sits down with David Gardner, Director of Pre-Sales Customer Success at Centric Software, to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in footwear today — product data integrity. From fragmented spreadsheets and siloed systems to AI-powered forecasting and PLM, David breaks down why product data has become a boardroom issue, what it's costing brands in speed, margin, and quality, and what a modern product development foundation actually makes possible. If your teams are working from different versions of the same information, this episode is the place to start.

With special guest:
David Gardner, Director Pre-Sales Customer Success, Centric Software
 
Hosted by:
Andy Polk, FDRA