We Built KRAMAN Because the Mid-Market Deserves Better

Across hundreds of manufacturing floors and planning rooms, the same story keeps repeating itself.

A company invests millions in ERP. Leadership celebrates go-live. Six months later, operations teams are still running on spreadsheets, planners are still overriding the system, and the VP of Ops is spending more time firefighting than building. The technology worked. The operating model never caught up.

 

The big consulting firms see this problem every day. But their minimum engagement fees start where most mid-market manufacturers' annual consulting budgets end.
 

KRAMAN was founded to close that gap.

What We Do

We help VP and Director-level Operations leaders at discrete manufacturers restore planning predictability and operational control — without the enterprise price tag, without the 12-month timeline, and without the deck-and-handoff model that leaves teams no better off than before.

 

Our work starts where most consultants stop: at the gap between the system and how decisions actually get made inside your organization.

The KRAMAN Belief

Most supply chain instability is not a forecasting problem. It is not an ERP problem. It is a decision architecture problem.

 

When the wrong people are making decisions with the wrong information at the wrong time — execution breaks down. Inventory bloats. Service levels drop. Planning becomes reactive. Leadership starts asking why nothing is working.

 

KRAMAN redesigns the decision architecture. We align who decides what, when, and based on which inputs — so your systems, your people, and your outcomes finally move in the same direction.

Our Founding Experience

KRAMAN was founded by Vikas Verma, a supply chain transformation leader with 26 years of hands-on experience inside some of the world's most complex manufacturing and technology environments.

 

Before founding KRAMAN, Vikas led global supply chain planning transformations at NetApp — twice, across two separate engagements spanning a decade. He built the integrated planning and MDM foundation at Fitbit during the Google acquisition era. He has delivered Oracle SCM, SAP IBP, and S&OP transformation programs at Cummins, Intuit, Symantec, Broadridge, and others.

 

These were not advisory roles. They were accountability roles — where plans had to execute, systems had to work, and leadership had to trust the numbers.

That experience is the foundation KRAMAN is built on.

What Sets Us Apart

>   We engage at executive altitude — working with operations leadership, not around it

>   We are tool-agnostic — Oracle Cloud Planning, SAP IBP, NetSuite, Anaplan — we work with what you have

>   We stay through execution — no decks left behind, no handoffs to teams who were not in the room

>   We are built for the mid-market — companies complex enough to need enterprise thinking, smart enough not to pay enterprise fees

>   We measure success by operational outcomes, not deliverables produce

Where We Are Going

KRAMAN is building toward something larger than boutique consulting.

 

Our vision is to become the operating system for supply chain leadership in the mid-market — the firm that manufacturing executives across the United States and globally call first when execution breaks down, when systems fail to deliver, and when the cost of instability becomes too high to ignore.

 

We are starting focused. Every engagement we take today is building the methodology, the proof, and the reputation that will define what KRAMAN becomes.

"Aligning demand, supply, and financial reality to drive executable decisions."
— Vikas Verma, Founder & CEO, KRAMAN Inc