Gramont
Next-Gen SAP PLM Solutions

Today, companies are continuously struggling to innovate in an endless pursuit of creating new products before they become obsolete in the modern, fast-paced market, where consumers have seemingly never-ending options. Consequently, product lifecycles are becoming shorter, and product lifecycle managers have to constantly ensure that they are fostering innovation, while also addressing the rapid changes in technology, and adhering to regulatory as well as business requirements. In practice, however, organisations fail to reach that target because of poor visibility into downstream processes and the inability to implement flexible workflows. For a process manager, most often, this situation feels like solving a complex jigsaw without a clear path of execution. In the world of product lifecycle management, this means fragmented data and siloed systems that slow down the speed to market significantly. To find a remedy for these setbacks, businesses now turn to enterprise resource planning tools—like SAP ERP. While such ERP tools offer transparency into supply chains and make product lifecycle management a connected and collaborative effort, many forward-thinking organisations are missing industry-specific, optimised business processes. This is where GRAMONT, an SAP gold partner, is chosen by many top process industry companies to unlock SAP’s full potential.

A leading SAP consulting company for PLM, regulatory compliance, and master data management, GRAMONT realised a gap in the market and started to build a small portfolio of solution extensions.

These accelerators comprise state-of-the-art applications with proven best practices, encapsulating the experience from successful real-life business challenges and projects combined with GRAMONT’s business expertise. Highlighting the effects of digitalisation, Anil Kumar, co-founder and CEO of GRAMONT, emphasises, “Companies need to have a frictionless business process to achieve accelerated and simplified product lifecycles. With GRAMONT’s “out-of-the-box” approach, our clients can improve their PLM efficiency significantly along the entire supply chain by connecting systems, technologies, people, and data.” Subsequently, clients can accelerate their product innovation and go to market by excelling in the areas of recipe development; product compliance, environment, health, and safety; master data governance; project and portfolio management.

One of the most impactful implementations of GRAMONT’s PLM application built on SAP is Compliance 360. The end-to-end management of product compliance and the processes around it enables users to save time, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. Many believe that it is difficult and expensive to embed product compliance during the product design phase successfully. GRAMONT’s hybrid cloud application brings compliance assessment to every stage of the product development process—be it for discrete manufacturing or process industries. The application translates complex rules into an understandable approach. The result is a comprehensive and up to date list of requirements with references to directives, regulations, and standards that apply to products. This is achieved by SAP product compliance and GRAMONT Accelerators to connect external regulatory content with different applications in the client’s supply chain process.

While GRAMONT is considered a nonpareil SAP partner for its proven industry track record, Kumar emphasises that his company, in its true nature, is technology independent. GRAMONT’s core competencies lie in offering end-to-end services in the realm of business consulting, UI/UX design, and PLM architecture and development. The robustness of these services has helped GRAMONT carve a niche in the PLM arena. Kumar believes as digitalisation continues to impact strategies, processes, and products alike, GRAMONT will continue to upgrade its PLM solutions and services based on the changing market requirements. This, according to Kumar, summarises GRAMONT’s ethos: “Our mission is not only to customise and implement off-the-shelf PLM solutions for our clients but also achieve that in a manner that is collaborative, motivating, and performance-driven.”