Banner Pharmacaps Inc.
Using pharmaceutical “best practices” streamlined Banner's core business processes, resulting in a reduction in operating costs.
Banner Phamacaps Inc (Banner) is a global gelatin-based drug delivery and specialty pharmaceutical company. As a foundational part of their vision for aggressive growth, Banner chose to invest in an Enterprise Resource Planning system that would allow them to manage the continued expansion of their business. Upon the launch of a Direct to Market business segment, Banner worked with Clarkston Consulting to implement an integrated SAP solution that improved their business processes and allowed them to build tighter relationships with both their customers and vendors.
Banner partnered with Clarkston to provide an integrated global application suite that supported all of Banner’s core business functions. The proliferation of systems over the years, including reliance on departmental excel spreadsheets, had resulted in redundant systems with silos of information in functional areas as well as regionally in the United States, Mexico, Canada and The Netherlands. This created an environment where Banner management could not readily access or leverage key information.
Banner and Clarkston implemented an integrated SAP solution in the United States that included the Finance and Controlling, Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Production Planning, Quality Management, Warehouse Management and Vistex modules. In addition, an RF solution was implemented to automate the warehouse management processes.
Clarkston worked closely with subject matter experts from all of Banner’s sites to design the global blueprint that will serve as the template during the regional roll outs. This global design will also standardize the business processes across the regions.
Leveraging pharmaceutical best practices to drive the global design allowed Banner to standardize their core processes. The resulting global template will accelerate the implementation of the SAP system across the other regions and will serve as the global platform to facilitate growth. Transitioning to the SAP solution provided great improvements to Banner including:
- The use of pharmaceutical “best practices” streamlined the core business processes, resulting in a reduction in operating costs.
- A single system platform and standard processes facilitated Banner’s objective to operate as a global organization and established a foundation for continued growth.
