Cephalon, Inc.

Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Industry: Life Sciences

Company Description: Founded in 1987, Cephalon, Inc. is an international biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and marketing of innovative products to treat sleep and neurological disorders, cancer and pain.

Challenges:

• Required an ERP system with an emphasis on manufacturing that could help the company manage their global business
• Essential to achieve integrated supply chain management capabilities and to realize the goal of having global inventory visibility
• Needed a low cost solution with rapid implementation and performance in a validated environment

Solution: QAD MFG/PRO, QAD Compliance, QAD Supply Chain Planning

Results:

• Improved visibility and synchronization across global operations
• Improved inventory tracking
• Improved ability to balance inventory levels against shelf life constraints
• Improved on-time delivery
• Dramatically improved manufacturing output
• Improved and enhanced supply chain collaboration
• Better leverage of enterprise knowledge assets