Gradient Consulting ERP Case Studies
Case Study: GBG
Project Management and Governance. GBG is an identity management, location intelligence and fraud prevention company. A large scale project affecting multiple business units cropped up at a time when the internal project management team were already over-committed. It was recognised that a higher level of governance to the management of the project was required.
Buoyant Upholstery
ERP System Selection. Having taken over the business as part of an MBO, Buoyant management recognised the risks and therefore decided to undergo an ERP system selection project. The new system had to handle all facets of the business from product design and change management, planning through to product configuration of orders, scheduling of shop floor on “make to order” basis, dispatch/transport planning, handling of customer issues and accounts.
Lebus Upholstery
Gradient support Lebus in selecting a new ERP system. With their management team highly focussed on process improvements, it was identified that their business systems, consisting of bespoke manufacturing packages alongside a second application for financial accounts and payroll and a variety of spreadsheets, were holding back progress. It was decided that a new ERP system would help support growth in a market of increasing product complexity.
Kaydee Blinds/Sayfa Systems
Kaydee / Sayfa choose Gradient for ERP system selection project. Kaydee Blinds and Sayfa Systems are two separate, but co-owned, companies both supplying products and services to the construction industry. Kaydee’s current ERP system was no longer able to support its operations efficiently, and Sayfa’s rapid growth was beginning to be restricted by the lack of integrated IT systems.
Natural Power
Project management and ERP system selection support. Having grown since the early ’90s from eight to 280 employees and opened sites across the UK, France and the USA, Natural Power found their existing arrangements of systems could not satisfy their business requirements for future growth.
Case Study: Charente
Charente get ERP Selection and Implementation help from Gradient. Charente was a group of companies with a long tradition in the nautical sector. There was a requirement to find an ERP system which would allow them to control three diverse sites across the UK, improve efficiencies and promote further growth.
Promethean
Global systems projects. Technology leader Promethean realised that existing business systems could no longer meet the needs of a rapidly growing company expanding into international markets. They looked for a partner to help them manage their system improvement projects which would eventually spread across three continents.
Case Study: Egbert Taylor
Taylor get ERP implementation support from Gradient. Taylor had been working on an implementation of Infor’s CloudSuite for several months. The objective was to replace a diverse range of legacy systems with a single ERP package. As the planned go-live date approached, there was an increasing concern and outside support was sought.
Branston
Gradient assist with the selection of specialist software. With sites in Lincoln, Scotland and the South West, Branston supply retail, wholesale and food manufacturing customers with fresh and ready prepared potatoes. They do all this with the help of dedicated and professional potato growers who deliver the high standards demand, day in, day out.