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As Pharma Pharmaceutical Industries
plotted its next growth cycle, it
realised that the absence of an
effective ERP platform would be the
main obstacle to such plans. Epicor
partner, Full Insight Technology
Solutions (FITS), introduced the
best solution for Pharma’s growth
ambitions – Epicor ERP – a platform
that was easy to install, easy to use
and with functionality that had a tight
fit with the group’s requirements.
PHARMA GROUP
ACCELERATES
GROWTH PLANS
WITH EPICOR ERP
Pharma Pharmaceutical Industries
(Pharma) is a group of companies
based in the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia (KSA) that brings
together business leaders, seasoned
healthcare professionals, marketing and
sales specialists, pharmacists and other
industry veterans. Between them, Pharma’s
companies leverage their rich spectrum of
expertise to provide a wide range of services
to the Saudi pharmaceutical industry.
Services offered by Pharma include:
branding, marketing and sales; warehousing
and logistics; facilities management and
regulatory compliance consultancy.
Lack of linkage and trackability
restricted plans for growth
Pharma has already established itself as
the partner of choice for pharmaceutical
companies, both international and within
its native Saudi Arabia. Recognising that its
clients – and the healthcare system it serves
– are now enmeshed in a digital world,
A key element of Epicor
ERP that impressed
Pharma’s procurement
team was the audit trail.
Pharma resolved to address the gaps in its
ICT infrastructure. It was decided that Digital
Transformation would provide the optimal
path to growth.
However, as the company plotted its next
growth cycle, it realised that the absence of
an effective ERP platform would be the main
obstacle to such plans. Tariq Kayyali is Quality
Unit Director and ERP Project Manager for
Pharma. With his team of stakeholders, he
focused on linking and integrating department
transactions and reducing the time to locate
vital archived data, from days to seconds.
“We didn’t have any ERP in place and
relied on a paper system to manage each
department’s activity. This resulted in
inconsistencies across manually prepared
documents and reports and meant several
wasted man-hours spent archiving and
locating historical data,” Kayyali said.
In addition to finding an ERP solution
that could mitigate these challenges, Pharma
Tariq Kayyali, Quality Unit Director and ERP Project Manager, Pharma
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