PLM Software with Arabic Support for GCC Brands. What to Check Before You Buy.

The best PLM software for a GCC brand depends on who in your business needs Arabic: your product team, your sales staff, your suppliers, or all three. As of October 2026, none of the other PLM vendors we researched states Arabic or right-to-left support on its public pages. Polluxa PLM works in English and Arabic, with setup and training in both.

*Polluxa makes Polluxa PLM. We compared tools using each vendor's public website as of October 2026; check current details with each vendor.*

Many GCC teams work in Arabic while their factories work in English, so the tool has to handle both without anyone retyping product data.

We read the public websites of ten PLM vendors in October 2026: Centric, WFX, Backbone (now part of Bamboo Rose), Onbrand, Lectra Kubix Link, Delogue, BeProduct, Techpacker, PTC FlexPLM and Uphance. For each, we looked for:

We report only what each site states.

Right-to-left (RTL) support means Arabic text reads from right to left, and the screen layout mirrors to match. A PLM tool also has to cope with records that mix both languages. Here is where that shows up in daily work.

The menus and labels are only in English, so part of the team avoids the system and keeps a spreadsheet on the side.

Check that every screen your team uses is available in Arabic, not only the login page.

An Arabic product name with an English style code and a size in the same line can jump around if the software does not handle mixed text.

Test a real product name with a code, a size and a colour, in both languages, on screen and in exports.

Your sales team may work in Arabic while your supplier in Asia or Europe reads English, so one record has to serve both.

Ask how the same product looks to an Arabic-speaking merchandiser and an English-speaking supplier.

Training happened in English, so only two people really learned the system.

Ask who runs setup and training, and in which language.

None of these vendors lists an office in the UAE, Saudi Arabia or elsewhere in the GCC. If Arabic matters to you, put it in writing in your first email to each vendor.

Polluxa PLM gives your designers, merchandisers, suppliers and sales teams one shared record for each product. Polluxa works in English and Arabic for teams across India, the GCC and beyond, and Polluxa and its certified partners configure, migrate and train until you are live, in English and Arabic.

Its published results include a lifestyle retailer in the GCC that cut new-product timelines by 30% within six months, and a manufacturer in Riyadh that launches more than two months earlier with faster engineering changes.

Imagine Reem, who runs merchandising at a modest-wear brand in Riyadh, testing a PLM in a demo:

That is the test worth running with every vendor. It shows how Arabic works in practice, not just in a brochure.

For a wider shortlist, see the best PLM software for fashion brands, and use our guide on how to choose PLM software to score each one.

Polluxa PLM is product lifecycle management software for fashion, footwear, beauty, consumer goods and manufacturing brands. Think of it as the single source of truth your teams and suppliers check before they do anything.

To see Polluxa PLM in Arabic on your own products, book a demo.

Polluxa PLM works in English and Arabic. As of October 2026, none of the other vendors we researched states Arabic or right-to-left support on its public pages, so ask each one directly.

Arabic text reads from right to left and the layout mirrors to match. Good support also handles records that mix Arabic names with English codes and sizes, on screen and in exports.

None of the vendors we researched lists a GCC office. Centric and Lectra list offices in Istanbul, and Lectra also lists Tunisia and Morocco.

Polluxa works in English and Arabic, and suppliers work on the same product record, seeing only their part. Ask to see both languages on one of your own products in the demo.

Yes. Polluxa's published results include a lifestyle retailer in the GCC and a manufacturer in Riyadh.