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IBM strengthens Mankind Pharma's IT

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Mankind Pharma, a pharmaceutical company of India, today announced that it has strengthened it’s IT set-up by partnering with IBM for implementation of SAP ERP, and a customized Enterprise Portal for deployment at customs and freight (C&F) agents.

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This ERP implementation would bring all organization—wide functions of Mankind on the common platform, improve financial reporting and consolidation and provide better inventory visibility across organization as well as flexibility to change business processes, in response to external and internal changes.

With the range and nature of products Mankind is dealing in, the current supply chain management mechanism including inbound and outbound logistics and the current IT system landscape demanded to implement an organization-wide ERP.

As part of this engagement, IBM would be involved in providing end-to-end solution for Mankind including organization-wide implementation of ERP, as well as on-site support to Mankind after Go-Live to manage all SAP modules implemented including Financials, Logistics and Enterprise Portal across all its C&Fs, said a press release.

“ Some of the key benefits post implementation of this project will help us bring all the business functions on a common platform, integrate multiple applications for a single view of information, provide data consistency and most significantly reduce Supply Chain costs by better inventory view and control,” said Arjun Juneja, director, Mankind Pharma.

Mankind Group selected IBM to meet their business requirements on key factors such as pharmaceutical industry insight and experience, unique end to end system integration capabilities, research, consulting and business transformation outsourcing, technical excellence and optimal global resource model. IBM team built a platform of trust, understanding, and confidence with Mankind Pharma by demonstrating expertise, fast response times and end-to-end capabilities to win this key engagement.

Commenting on this deal, Vanitha Narayanan, managing partner, IBM Global Business Services, India/South Asia, said, “We are delighted with the opportunity of working with a fast growing company like Mankind Pharma, in the rapidly expanding pharmaceuticals sector.”

She further added that with their deep knowledge and expertise in working with dozens of pharma clients across the world, they are confident of creating a robust IT platform for supporting Mankind's business. The solution would also benefit Mankind with better operational efficiency and cost control.