Case Study: Sogo Medical Company Ltd. achieves enhanced financial accounting for better medical outcomes with SAP HANA

How Can Enhanced Financial Accounting Lead to Better Medical Outcomes

Sogo Medical Company Ltd., a Fukuoka‑based healthcare consultant that supports hospitals, physicians and more than 680 prescription‑filling drugstores across Japan, faced the need to strengthen management capability and speed up decision‑making as it pursued new business growth and higher corporate value. Key challenges included integrating financial and management accounting, unifying master data across the group, and implementing a resilient cloud platform to reduce verification work and minimize downtime.

Working with ABeam Consulting, Sogo Medical implemented SAP S/4HANA Finance in the cloud to standardize processes and give managers real‑time, detailed transaction visibility. The transformation delivered paperless workflows, faster audits and closings (asset depreciation tax returns cut from two months to seven days), improved profitability insight and regulatory responsiveness, and a stronger platform to scale pharmacy best practices and regional healthcare networks.

Sogo Medical Company Ltd.

Yoshiaki Nagano

General Manager, IT Planning Department, Corporate Planning Division