Modular Management, a global technology-enabled consulting leader in modularity and product configuration, announced a strategic partnership with KP Group, a Brazil-based consultancy with deep expertise in strategy, industrial capabilities, and product development across South America. Together, they will help manufacturers adopt composable and configurable product strategies, delivering faster time-to-market, higher profitability, and greater market agility.
Through the collaboration, companies will be supported in transforming complex product portfolios into modular, configurable architectures that enable faster decision-making, scalable variety, and predictable margins. By combining Modular Management’s expertise in building lasting modular and configurability capabilities with KP Group’s strong regional presence and hands-on execution experience, companies can achieve measurable outcomes across product development, operations, and go-to-market.
“This partnership allows us to bring our capabilities in how to build composable businesses through modular and configurable product portfolios closer to companies in South America,” said Luther Johnson, President at Modular Management North America. “Together with KP Group, we help organizations reduce complexity, accelerate configuration, and turn modular product strategies into real business results.”
Why this matters now
Manufacturers across South America are facing increasing pressure from market volatility, regulatory demands, rising costs, and growing product variety. Traditional, rigid product structures make it difficult to respond quickly without increasing complexity and cost. Business composability, enabled through modular product architectures and configurable portfolios, provides companies with a practical way to adaptfaster, scale efficiently, and remain competitive in a rapidly changing environment.
Enabling Configurable Products Through Modularity
The partnership focuses on helping companies design products for reuse and configuration, rather than customization from scratch.
Key outcomes include:
- Modular product architectures that enable high variety with controlled complexity
- Configurable product portfolios that scale across markets and customer needs
- Faster time-to-market and reduced development and operational costs
- Stronger alignment between strategy, product architecture, and execution.
These outcomes are enabled through a combination of Modular Management’s technology-enabled consulting approach and KP Group’s deep experience in embedding these architectures into real product development and manufacturing environments.
A Strong Regional Partner
Founded in 2016, KP Group is a consultancy group led by senior professionals with extensive experience as executives, operators, and advisors. The firm supports organizations across strategy, industrial capabilities, product development, innovation, and lifecycle management, engaging where it creates the greatest impact.
“Companies need practical ways to manage complexity and growth at the same time,” said Marcos Barros, Partner, KP Group.“By partnering with Modular Management, we strengthen our ability to help South American manufacturers implement configurable product architectures and business composability in a way that delivers tangible, sustainable outcomes.
Growing Network in Brazil
The KP Group will also work with our academic partner in Brazil, UNISINOS in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, which in collaboration with Modular Management's Academy offers classes and professional training to students and industry professionals on the topic of modularity and configuration.
