IBS Pharma standard implemented as a comprehensive solution within six months

IBS Pharma standard implemented as a comprehensive solution within six
months

Pharmaceutical wholesaler Gesine introduces IBS industry solution step
by step ‑ Smooth live start thanks to implementation method IBS FasTrax.

After numerous installations worldwide IBS Pharma has finally been
implemented in Germany as a comprehensive solution based on the
application's German standard. In just six months pharmaceutical
wholesaler Gesine Pharmahandel e.G. located in Ludwigsfelde near Berlin,
has introduced the industry-specific solution of IBS Enterprise. IBS
FasTrax, an implementation method based on pre-configured best practice
procedures, has played a key role in the successful project completion
achieved at this cooperatively run full-line distributor. Since
mid-April Gesine employees have worked with the complete IBS solution in
the central areas of purchasing, distribution, accounting, inventory and
returns management. Incorporated in the installation is also IBS
Integrator which merges and automates applications, data and business
processes across departments and companies. Against this background IBS
has also equipped the Gesine application with interfaces to
supplementary systems of other leading providers.

Market research

"To begin with, we did a market research and thoroughly explored which
IT systems were used by others," says Thomas Madetzki, Manager
Distribution Centre and authorized signatory at Gesine. "Accordingly,
the decision in favour of IBS Pharma was merely a logical consequence,
since we neither wanted to implement a cumbersome in-house development
nor put up with restrictions regarding transaction volumes. In our
industry segment, IBS Pharma with its high performance levels is one of
the very few genuine industry-specific solutions with comprehensive
functionality, and we have come to appreciate the provider as a trusted
partner."

A new approach: Phase-by-phase implementation

So far a number of companies had only been using individual components
of the IBS industry solution's German standard. After the agreement had
been signed at the beginning of October 2010, Gesine wanted to introduce
the complete solution with all necessary modules. "IBS has proven to be
most flexible and supported us at all times during this demanding
project. With their help, we managed the go live in various phases and
were all in all able to keep everything within schedule," Thomas
Madetzki explains. The first area to go live was purchasing (end of
March), followed by goods reception (beginning of April) and finally
goods dispatch (mid-April); a few days later some individual functions
such as sundry invoices followed.

“We've seen smooth processes from the very beginning", Thomas Madetzki
continues. "Right now we are only dealing with some points of
optimization that come forth from the project as it proceeds and which
do not play a mission-critical role." "The use of our implementation
method IBS FasTrax and the fact that Gesine did not entangle itself in
individual modifications but based its own implementation on the
internationally well-proven industry standards of the solution were
certainly key factors in the success of the project", adds Andreas
Brock, IBS Business Development Director for
Germany/Austria/Switzerland. "But it was also due to the mutual trust
and fairness that both companies reached their common goal which was to
implement the German standard of IBS Pharma as a complete system within
six months."

      

For more information, please contact:

Jeanette Cronstedt Lind

VP of Corporate Marketing, IBS AB

Tel. +46 70 860 25 73

jeanette.lind@ibs.net (jeanette.lind@ibs.net)       

Andreas Brock

IBS Business Development Director for Germany/Austria/Switzerland

Tel. +49 (0)40 514 51-126

andreas.brock@ibs.net (andreas.brock@ibs.net)