Case Studies

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.

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.

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.

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.

ERP Selection Project. Viking River Cruises is a market-leading river cruise operator, boasting a fleet of 37 vessels with plans of doubling that figure over the next few years. Due in part to that phenomenal growth the decision was made to find a solution that could cater to their unique set of requirements.