Case Study: AmerisourceBergen achieves 2x SAP throughput and improved stability with Oracle Exadata (Oracle)

AmerisourceBergen Opens New Business Opportunities by Doubling Throughput of One of World’s Largest SAP Environments

AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 500 leader in pharmaceutical sourcing and distribution (13,000 employees, $5B+ revenue), runs one of the world’s largest SAP environments, processing over 1 million line items daily and adding ~1 TB of data monthly. When a new national retail pharmacy contract threatened to more than double throughput and require faster daily processing, the company needed improved stability, scalability, disaster recovery, a smaller footprint across two data centers, and a rapid implementation to capture the opportunity.

AmerisourceBergen deployed Oracle Exadata (with Advanced Compression and Oracle support services), cutting SAP ECC response time from just over 1 second to 800 ms while managing 30% more load, eliminating unplanned downtime, and accelerating 100,000 daily batch jobs by 25–75%. The solution reduced storage by up to 60%, cut full 27 TB RMAN backup time from 24 to 7 hours, enabled 2x+ throughput for the new contract, supported consolidation of dozens of database hosts and hundreds of terabytes of storage, and achieved a streamlined infrastructure with a six- to nine-month ROI.

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Milt Simonds

Director, Enterprise Platform Delivery