Sektör: Pharma

Kategori: Application Management Services, Cloud, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP HANA

UCB Innere Medizin

Why we've chosen NTT DATA Business Solutions:

References from the long-standing partnership with Schwarz Pharma, one of the biggest acquisitions in UCB’s history
Professional consultancy firm with extensive SAP expertise
Extensive experience in the implementation of Business ByDesign

Thanks to SAP Business ByDesign, we benefit from predefined, standardized processes in a fully integrated SAP ERP system. And because SAP manages BusinessByDesign as a cloud solution, we benefit from easily calculable IT infrastructure costs and yet, despite this, enjoy full expandability. This ensures that we are always up to date, including when it comes to legal requirements.

220 Employees

As a global biopharmaceutical research company, UCB specializes in neurology, immunology, and internal medicine.
With strictly future-oriented research and development activities, the company focuses on developing new therapies
designed to improve the quality of patients’ lives.

To achieve these ambitious goals as efficiently as possible, the company decided to carve out UCB Innere Medizin
to ensure greater flexibility in response to market conditions.

Challenges and Benefits

Challenges

Founding of the new sales company
Respond quickly and flexibly to customer requests
Fast, flexible, and cross-company supply chain
Minimize the complexity of the processes
Streamline the IT system landscape
Ensure an optimized supply and value chain with standardized processes

Benefits

Process integration in the cloud
Use of standardized processes
Standardized web services
Uniformity through the long-term securing of the implemented processes
Cost reductions thanks to intuitive, resourceoptimized operation

Solutions

SAP Business ByDesign
SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI)
Application Management Services (AMS)

Customer Reference

UCB Innere Medizin GmbH & Co. KG, Monheim, Germany

After the carve-out, it’s time to move to the cloud – Respond instantly and flexibly to the latest market requirements with SAP Business ByDesign. With the Business ByDesign cloud solution, UCB Innere Medizin benefits from a scalable, low-maintenance solution that operates to the most stringent security standards.

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About the Project

Rapid Launch and Low Costs Thanks to a “Best Practice” Approach

This software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, which is specially designed for companies in the upper mid-market segment and for subsidiaries of large companies, covers the whole range of end-to-end processes. As a result, the pharmaceutical company benefits from predefined processes that can be fine-tuned and optimized in line with the needs of the newly hived-off departments. For UCB, this process was not only time-saving but also much more cost-efficient than a full SAP ERP implementation.

Investment and Data Security

One of the major advantages of cloud-based software is that virtually no IT resources or big servers need to be kept on the company’s premises. Despite this, UCB Innere Medizin continues to operate in the SAP environment, which creates security in two respects: first, the decision in favor of an SAP solution represents a safe investment, and second, UCB’s data is hosted in German computer centers operated by SAP at the world’s highest security level.

Functions for 3PL and Travel Expense Accounting

The carve-out of UCB Innere Medizin allows it to focus on its core business: selling medicines. This focus is supported by interfaces with 3PL (third-party logistics providers) responsible for distribution and logistics. Here, an order is generated in UCB Innere Medizin’s sales department. It is then forwarded as an automated web service to a logistics partner where the product is stored. Once the service provider has shipped the product, the delivery confirmation is dispatched also by means of the automated web service. UCB’s financial accounting department then creates an invoice and the customer order is completed. In this way, SAP Business ByDesign allows orders to be transacted across company boundaries.