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Ibnsina Pharma drives agility with Infor

Infor, a leading provider of industry-specific cloud applications, announced Ibnsina Pharma (S.A.E.), one of Egypt’s largest distributors of pharmaceutical products, has invested in Infor EAM, Infor d/EPM, Infor M3, Infor SCE (Warehouse Management System), and Infor OS to help unify and integrate its business processes across its developing operations.

Ibnsina Pharma, a major healthcare solutions provider in the region, has been growing steadily through supply chain services, importation, and distribution of healthcare products in the private and government sectors. Today, it has the second-biggest share of the Egyptian market in the industry and operates a chain of 55 wholesale pharmacy stores across the country.

Ibnsina Pharma chose Infor’s industry-specific solutions to help streamline its business operations across the organization; generate strong financial reports; achieve operational efficiency; integrate with other technologies in the supply chain and implement best practices for better control of processes. It ultimately plans to migrate the application to the cloud.

“In recent years, technology has revolutionized the healthcare industry, and by default the pharmaceuticals industry. Technology-enabled solutions such as trackers, biosensors, and wearables are th e w ay o f th e fu tu re and th e pharmaceutical industry will need to embrace digital transformation to support all new updates associated with the rising population and the emergence of new chronic diseases,” said Amro Khorshid, IT Director, Ibnsina Pharma.

From a supply chain perspective, Ibnsina Pharma expects to produce more robust and consistent monthly sales forecasting and replenishment planning cycle with Infor’s warehouse management system. Additionally, Ibnsina Pharma will have greater visibility and speed of information sharing across all its supply chains, with greater collaboration between its customers and suppliers and allowing for better decision-making throughout the overall supply chain.

“Ibnsina Pharma is Infor’s first pharmaceutical customer in the Middle East. We are delighted to work with the team and enrich the experiences of its customers and employees,” said Jonathan Wood, general manager for India, Middle East and Africa, Infor.

Ibnsina Pharma expects to benefit from Infor d/EPM’s modern intelligent business and financial performance management capabilities which will help drive its overall business performance with more agility. With greater business insights from Infor d/EPM, Ibnsina Pharma will be able to make more informed decisions across its organization. Infor d/EPM will enable the company to modernize data processing and enrich decision-making with advanced analytics and planning capabilities, self-service dashboards, and social collaboration.