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Glaxo-Smithkline GSK Case Study

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Glaxo-SmithKline GSK is a global, prominent pharmaceutical company headquartered at Brentford, England. The present form of company is a combined entity of both GlaxoWellcome and SmithKlineBeecham Corporation which were merged together in the year 2000 and came into being from 1st January 2001. The prominence of the company is such that it was selected as an official supplier of medicines to London-2012 Olympic games participants and GSK also played an extensive role in conducting anti-doping measures to all the Olympic participants. Some more Information-GSK GSK offers wide variety of medicines pertaining to different diseases and GSK also played an important role in producing specialized medicines for Hepatitis-A and Hepatitis-B. GSK, a predominant …show more content…

e) Encompasses different domain specific services like HR, Production, Sales & marketing, Finance and other Management Business Functions. Need for ERP at GSK GSK, when formed or obtained a new shape in the form of new organization structure and began to face many challenges in the combined entity during its initial days of operations. Many software applications were overlapped in GSK because of the merger and incompatibilities at different levels began to increase. The company then selected SAP R/3 version of ERP for its business operations. Basically, GSK intended to have an effective ERP to Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) data that are available in external information repositories like information data warehouses. GSK also selected Informatica to support data integration along with ERP. Web Connections Supporting ERP system The typical ERP system at GSK could able to process and present the information very efficiently by establishing robust web connections between Non-SAP R/3 data and SAP BW …show more content…

They were very much surprised and rather struggled with the existing ERP system because many of them had no prior work experience and knowledge of SAP and many employees started looking for other feasible software options and they found SAP’s ERP. Mr. Christopher Louis, IT Project Manager, GSK Vaccines appreciated SAP’s ERP for helping GSK Vaccines in managing their internal process control. Finally, after procuring the SAP’s ERP, IT staff at GSK Vaccines went ahead with initial implementation of ERP. It went smoothly and every thing was completed within schedule and budget. It took around 6 months time for GSK Vaccines to introduce SAP’s ERP. During the initial days of launch, IT team at GSK Vaccines familiarised themselves with SAP’s ERP and built their own customized modules. Finally, implementation of certain vital and core functionalities was also completed expeditiously. This brings to the fore that importance of choosing RIGHT ERP system while conducting business operations play an important role in organization’s

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