Cognizant, an American multinational corporation, has been selected by Purdue Pharma L.P., a pharmaceutical company to optimise core IT platform to improve business efficiency and drive enterprise agility, said a statement from Cognizant.
To manage its complete range of business applications on the SAP platform, including manufacturing, supply chain, and quality systems, Purdue Pharma is working with Cognizant to simplify and standardise its core application processes and create an environment for enhanced collaboration among its entire ecosystem.
Cognizant will help extend Purdue’s core SAP and integrated application suite within the timelines defined by the project team for manufacturing commercial batches in the new plant at Durham County, North Carolina, informs the company.
“Cognizant’s approach has ensured continuity of business critical processes while simplifying our operations and driving higher levels of efficiency. We are now renewing our focus and combined energies on growing our business and innovating for the future,” said, Larry A. Pickett, Jr., Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Purdue Pharma.
“In the rapidly evolving and regulated pharmaceutical market, leading companies like Purdue Pharma are optimising how they build, manage and operate their core IT platforms to improve efficiency and agility,” said Shankar Narayanan, Global Head Life Sciences at Cognizant.
He further said that Cognizant’s deep pharmaceutical business expertise as well as supply chain and manufacturing solutions enabled the company to help Purdue Pharma meet the efficiency and innovation requirements while standardising the core application processes and procedures.