A Company Rooted in Responsibility
Coromandel International is a complete farm solutions provider offering Plant Nutrients and Crop Protection solutions including Fertilizer, Crop Protection, Biopesticides, Specialty Nutrients and Organic fertilizer. For over a century, it has been a silent partner in India’s green revolutions—standing alongside millions of farmers,Providing them with customized farm solutions and advisory services.
Operations spanning:
- Fertilizers
- Crop protection
- Organic compost
- Specialty nutrients
The Pains: Compliance in a Fragmented Landscape
As a major player in a highly regulated industry, Coromandel has been tracking their regulatory compliance through an on-premise solution from Big 4 and faced a dilemma that many large corporations do:
- Over 300 laws and around 11000 of obligations to comply with—state, central and environmental.
- Operations across multiple plants, warehouses, and retail locations, each with unique compliance touchpoints.
- A rising tide of regulatory changes, often unpredictable and jurisdiction-specific.
- Manual, spreadsheet-based compliance tracking systems cumbersome, error-prone, and disconnected.
And when compliance misses or regulatory update misses happened, the costs were not just financial; they impacted brand trust, operational safety, and legal exposure.
Sowing the Seed of Change:
The Compliance Partnership with Lawrbit
Coromandel’s leadership recognized that compliance had to evolve from an administrative overhead into a strategic differentiator.
After exploring and implementing multiple platforms, including Big 4 solution, they partnered with Lawrbit Global Compliance Management System (GCMS) a solution that promised not just automation, but data confidence too.
GCMS – A platform built to:
- Map every legal obligation—central, state, municipal—into a centralized, dynamic compliance library.
- Automate reminders, escalations, and alerts across thousands of tasks and team members.
- Turn compliance from a checklist into a strategic asset.
The Transition: Before and After Lawrbit
| Before Lawrbit | After Lawrbit |
|---|---|
| Compliance tracked in an on-premise Compliance tool and at times manually too. | Unified compliance dashboard with extensive legal library accessible across the teams and locations. |
| Monthly regulatory updates lagged behind fastchanging laws. | Real-time legal changes auto-reflected across the platform. |
| Manual updates, reports and certificate generation led to management anxiety. | Automated compliance reports, certificates, and audit trails generated with minimal effort. |
| Disjointed operations with no visibility on risk levels due to missed data. | Dashboards showed risk exposure, task status, and ownership on a real-time. |
| Teams worked reactively, often unaware of critical updates. | Proactive alerts ensured upcoming regulatory risks are being addressed in advance. |
Changing Culture, Not Just Software
Technology can only support unless it is updated to the most advance version available around and with regular updated legal data. Coromandel decided to replace its existing service provider with Lawrbit GCMS not just to deploy software, but to train, align and empower its teams:
- Business workshops and role-based dashboards helped plant heads, legal teams and field staff, clarity of their applicable laws and compliance.
- Escalation matrix ensured pending compliance reporting issues never fell through the cracks—and could be updated right to the source.
- Compliance wasn’t a nagging afterthought—it became part of user friendly compliance management.
Tangible Outcomes: What Success Looks Like
- 85% faster resolution of compliance deviations.
- Significant reduction in non-compliance penalties and legal notices.
- Real-time adaptability to regulatory changes without disrupting operations
- Increased board-level confidence in legal and compliance adherence.
Conclusion: Compliance as a Growth Enabler
The Coromandel–Lawrbit collaboration is one of transformation from the ground up.
It’s a powerful example of how a legacy industry can embrace modern governance without losing its roots.In agriculture, timing, precision, and consistency are everything. Through Lawrbit, those principles apply to compliance too.
In sowing the seed of change, Coromandel didn’t just fix old problems—they futureproofed their operations and set a new benchmark for compliance maturity in the sector.
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