Case Study: Pharmlog Pharma Logistik GmbH achieves scalable, reliable pharmaceutical logistics with IBM webMethods

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PharmLog Pharma Logistik GmbH needed a way to modernize its aging warehouse management system while maintaining compliance, reliability, and secure data exchange across complex customer and manufacturer systems. The company’s decade-old WMS created a risk of single points of failure and made it difficult to meet strict pharmaceutical packaging, storage, and delivery requirements, so it looked for an enterprise integration platform.

IBM webMethods provided the integration layer PharmLog needed to replace the old, error-prone setup in stages and support multiple message formats and connection types. With IBM, PharmLog now processes 10,000 delivery notes and 40,000 delivery note items daily across 40 clients, reduced implementation times by 35%, lowered errors, and enabled faster customer migrations such as a seven-month interface transition for Procter & Gamble.

Pharmlog Pharma Logistik GmbH

Roman Poon

Head of Application Support for Logistics Systems