5 November 2008

Chiesi Farmaceutici has helped to develop a new dry powder inhaler

Chiesi Farmaceutici, an international pharmaceuticals manufacturer, has implemented a group-wide sales and operations planning (S&OP) project, with the help of TXT e-solutions.

“The Implementation of TXT was an indispensable prerequisite for successful S&OP,” said Corrado Snaiderbaur, corporate demand manager at Chiesi. “You need systems, processes and people. We began by redefining our processes, we then involved our teams and finally selected TXT e-solutions as our preferred technology and they have proven extremely reliable in delivering the S&OP process we had mapped out.”

The implementation included TXTDemand and TXTPlan, two solutions that are part of the TXTPerform suite for demand and supply chain management, which is built on Microsoft’s SQL Server platform. Respectively, the two solutions support collaborative demand forecasting and replenishment planning.

The implementation of the two TXT solutions, together with our own effort to revise our processes has turned out to be a winning combination

Corrado Snaiderbaur, corporate demand manager at Chiesi “We needed a system that would enable us to effectively manage forecasts, safety stocks, minimum orders, and products approaching their expiry date, while having visibility of stocks in all affiliates,” Snaiderbaur added. “The implementation of the two TXT solutions, together with our own effort to revise our processes has turned out to be a winning combination. The figures demonstrate the project’s success. In the two pilot countries – England and Germany – we have achieved an average inventory reduction of about 15 per cent.”

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