Case Study: Mankind Pharma accelerates analytics and reduces costs with IBM Instana

Healthcare innovator extends affordable medicine to millions using data insights from IBM and SAP

Mankind Pharma, a fast-growing pharmaceutical manufacturer focused on affordable medicines, needed to keep costs and cash tightly controlled while managing rapidly growing analytics workloads. Its SAP ERP database had expanded to 5 TB, and key reports could take up to 24 hours, limiting timely decision-making. IBM helped address this challenge with a next-generation platform for SAP S/4HANA on IBM Power Systems and IBM FlashSystem storage.

IBM implemented the new environment with high-performance IBM Power System S922 servers, IBM FlashSystem 5000 storage, and supporting software and services for high availability and protection. As a result, Mankind Pharma accelerated analytics reporting by 50x, cut materials and inventory report time to seven minutes, reduced inventory by 25%, and lowered IT operational costs by 20%. The company also gained faster failover, improved efficiency, and a future-ready platform to support expansion.

Mankind Pharma

Pramod Gokhale

Group Chief Information Officer