PCI Pharma Services – Procurement Savings
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
Overview
PCI Pharma Services is a global, integrated Contract Development & Manufacturing Organisation(CDMO) delivering a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical services from the earliest stages of development through to commercial launch and beyond.
Situation
Always keen to maximise the potential for streamlining what advanced digital platforms can offer, PCI tasked Mint to custom build elements within the company’s Salesforce Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to centralise aspects of the Procurement function – particularly savings targets and performance – while allowing for differing divisional requirements. The goal was to provide the Procurement team with a company-wide business tool that would support all of its current requirements with built-in futureproofing for further growth.
PCI’s approach to cost saving is addressed through tracking projects within the system which can be corporate, or cover multiple sites or single sites – and can be supplier specific in some cases. The projects could also start and finish on different dates at each site.
Solution
To support the complexity of the requirements, Mint’s solution involved custom coding to providescreen flows for users to create their ‘savings projects’ with options to apply forecasts for single or multiple sites. Separate screen flows were also provided to enable them to easily add additional sites over time and for amending start/end dates on the project for each location.
Mint also then provided a custom User Interface (UI) allowing users to easily enter actual andupdated forecasts against the projects without having to go into each project record. This providesthe user with the ability to filter their savings projects by site and by category, with a toggle to switchbetween forecasts and actuals.Several reports and dashboards were also set up so that management can easily see how each ofthe savings’ projects is performing against forecast, by site and by month.
Results
There is now a centralised area and view of the savings projects with total transparency – they canbe easily accessed across all sites at any point.
Ann explained: ‘We have agressive cost savingtargets so developing and sharing these initiatives is key. The savings platform allows us to have realtime visibility and detailed reporting, which contributes to our goal of a ‘best in class’ supply chain.
’‘They are always professional and have given us an effective system that allows us to demonstrate the value of Procurement within the business.’
“Mint are extremely collaborative and have not only given us an effective system, but also a way of demonstrating how we in the Procurement function add value to the business”
Ann Cartwright
Director, Global Strategic Sourcing