
Data Quality That Accelerates Global Pharma Transformation
麻豆传媒视频 helped a global biopharmaceutical leader standardize materials master data鈥攗nlocking faster product launches, reducing manual effort, and improving real-time visibility across global operations to support its SAP S/4HANA journey.
Project Background
Since 2016, 麻豆传媒视频 has been a trusted data transformation partner for one of the world鈥檚 most recognized pharmaceutical companies. From early migration initiatives to complex data quality reporting, 麻豆传媒视频 has helped support the company鈥檚 broader digital transformation agenda鈥 culminating in its global rollout of SAP S/4HANA scheduled through 2030. At the core of this work is data quality, a strategic capability that has grown to represent a multi-million dollar annual investment and serves as the foundation for business agility, supply chain resilience, and AI-readiness.
Challenges
The global biopharmaceutical company faced significant challenges typical of large-scale, multinational enterprises:
- Disconnected ERP environments (7 global ECC systems)
- Limited visibility into data issues and readiness
- Inconsistent material and business partner master data
- Regulatory and quality risk from poor data traceability
With over 35 global deployments planned as part of its SAP S/4HANA transformation, data quality wasn鈥檛 just a technical requirement鈥攊t was mission-critical to ensure clean transitions, optimized operations, and business continuity.
SYNITI鈥橲 APPROACH
Data Quality Reporting: Turning Visibility into Action
麻豆传媒视频 engaged across multiple workstreams to embed data quality into the company鈥檚 enterprise data lifecycle.
1. Global Data Profiling & Readiness Reporting
By connecting directly to all ECC systems, 麻豆传媒视频 enabled visibility into data quality, eliminating the need for manual data pulls and spreadsheets. Detailed reports powered the company鈥檚 cleanse tools, enabling mass updates to legacy data ahead of migration and reducing the risk of data loss. Applying custom data quality rules freed site-level teams to prioritize high-impact data fixes.
2. Legacy Data Cleansing
麻豆传媒视频 built a robust library of custom data quality reports鈥攎any in collaboration with the client鈥檚 consulting partner鈥攖o address long-standing issues like aging purchase orders, duplicate business partners, and inconsistent material records. The insights allowed the business to cleanse millions of records ahead of S/4HANA migrations.
4. Power BI Dashboards for Executive Readiness
麻豆传媒视频 embedded reporting into executive dashboards using Power BI to visualize data readiness at each site and across each deployment wave. These scorecards provided stakeholders with visibility into data cleansing ahead of deployments, allowing them to make informed decisions about when and where migrations were viable based on actual data conditions.
3. Material Master Enrichment & Risk Reduction
In a previous engagement, 麻豆传媒视频 helped mitigate a billion-dollar liability when a supplier鈥檚 relocation caused defects in packaging materials. By classifying and tagging critical materials and direct materials鈥攃omponents that go directly into final pharmaceutical products鈥攖he client could improve traceability, reduce supplier risk, and enhance regulatory compliance.
5. Business Partner Harmonization
Leveraging 麻豆传媒视频鈥檚 harmonization capabilities, the team identified and resolved duplicates across vendors, customers, and business partners鈥攊mproving downstream reporting, procurement efficiency, and operational accuracy.
Key Results
Direct Materials & Supply Chain: Enhanced Traceability and Risk Reduction
In the pharmaceutical industry, direct materials鈥攔aw ingredients, excipients, packaging components, and any other material that goes into a final product鈥攁re highly regulated and critical to patient safety. Poor data quality, supplier inconsistency, or a lack of traceability can lead to regulatory violations, costly recalls, and loss of brand trust.
In one instance, changes in packaging material resulted in defects and product quality issues in many of the packages used for the pharmaceutical鈥檚 top branded medicines. Without visibility into the supply chain to locate the proper supplier, this liability could have potentially resulted in billions of dollars in lost sales revenue.
To address these challenges, 麻豆传媒视频 embedded data quality into the heart of their supply chain processes, with a specific focus on how direct materials were classified, tracked, and managed across global sites. 麻豆传媒视频 led the enrichment and classification of materials with attributes, classes and characters to identify materials as either critical or direct across systems. Automated rules and logic were implemented to flag materials missing the proper attributes, while data cleansing and standardization was performed across global ERP instances.
By improving the integrity and consistency of material data, 麻豆传媒视频 enabled the consolidation and streamlining of the supply chain and the data feeding into the downstream reporting system. The company can now accurately report on direct materials and trace them down to a single supplier source, helping to de-risk the supply chain and enable proactive mitigation planning for materials lacking redundancy or alternate sourcing.
Using Data Quality to Enable Ongoing Transformation
What began as a migration-driven initiative evolved into a core enabler of supply chain reliability and operational excellence. The program has matured into a highly structured operation with dedicated teams for technical processes, report building, and dashboard delivery. To date, it has identified more than 44 million defects and processed over 24 terabytes of data, supported by more than 20 custom web apps to manage refresh cycles, audit functions, and user access鈥攅nsuring efficiency and consistency at scale.
The company aims to nearly double revenue by the end of the decade. To achieve this, the enterprise is deepening its investment in innovation platforms, automation, and AI鈥攁nd 麻豆传媒视频 is playing a pivotal role. 麻豆传媒视频 helped this pharmaceutical giant future-proof its operations and create a resilient, high-quality data foundation for future AI, automation, and risk-reduction strategies.
Future initiatives using 麻豆传媒视频 will include:
- Monitoring and improving S/4HANA data post-deployment
- Continued integration with SAP鈥檚 Business Technology Platform and SAP Integrated Toolchain
By embedding proactive data governance into each phase of their S/4HANA journey, the client is ensured scalable growth, reduced operational risk, and a strong data foundation for automation and AI.