CASE STUDY
Modernize Supply Chain And Distribution With Agile Data & ML Platform
Mactores helped EMD Serono modernize its supply chain by transforming analytics and machine learning platforms to accelerate business decisions by 3x.
About
The Customer
EMD Serono is Merck's United States brand and division, providing medicines, drug-delivery devices, and support services for patients with difficult-to-treat diseases.
They have a strong pipeline with more than 20 projects in development, including potential new oncology and immuno-oncology medicines as well as therapeutic options for psoriasis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and other autoimmune diseases.
EMD Serono imagines the future of healthcare by working on translating the discovery of molecules into potentially meaningful outcomes for people with serious unmet medical needs.
“Mactores data and machine learning engineers are competent to understand how to work with both the business and technical teams by identifying their respective challenges and designing the optimal solutions.”
Customer Situation
EMD Serono needed to ingest multi-data sources available to their business teams from various vendors and systems involved in the supply chain.
They were challenged with the scalability and agility of their on-premises traditional Oracle-Informatica-based data platform. EMD Serono had to adopt Machine Learning and AI to perform predictive analytics to support new use cases. The challenges aggravated as business teams added new datasets, and their data analytics environment did not have the scale to integrate these new datasets with high agility. Further hindering their objectives was their lack of modularity in EMD Serono's data platform design, obstructing them from adding new technologies and enhancements to their existing data platform.
Mactores was involved through an RFP process to provide strategy, design, and build of the solution to resolve the supply chain and distribution business challenges.
Getting
Started
The EMD Serono team decided that a data platform assessment was the right first step. The assessment result clearly outlined the possible solutions to both low-hanging fruit solutions they could deploy and higher-effort solutions.
Now with the team interested in learning how best to approach cloud-based technologies compared to their current on-premise approach, an immersion day workshop helped infuse confidence in the EMD Serono team that cloud technologies were possible. This engagement quickly led to scoping out a POC, eventually leading to their production deployments.
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