Capacity planning for pharmaceutical manufacturer

Client: Leading global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and distributes a wide range of medicines, vaccines, and innovative healthcare products

OPPORTUNITY: The client wanted to transform the capacity management process across manufacturing sites, warehouses and distribution centers. The client was using legacy systems which made the process less fluid and difficult to optimize.

SOLUTION: SGA’s data analytics team developed a framework for effective capacity planning:

• At the outset, the SGA team reviewed the existing system. It observed that data was maintained in various inconsistent formats and there were data entry errors. The data was stored in row-based storage due to which scenario management and optimization was not possible.
• The SGA team built an application interface that placed the data in a Linux environment and triggered the shell script for automating the data quality checks and standardizing the data hierarchy across locations.
• SGA built a Qlikview based solution to enable scenario planning and management.
• SGA implemented Spark GraphX which could store data by nodes, followed by optimization based on distance and number of nodes/locations.

VALUE DELIVERED: 

• Reduced the time taken for the data standardization process
• Designed predictive scenarios and observing change in demand & supply profile
• Ranked the top five route options available, and allowed business users decide the best course of action