Case Study: Moderna Therapeutics achieves scalable growth and faster drug development with SAP HANA

How Is an Emerging Biotech Company Managing Growth While Revolutionizing the Development of Medicines

Moderna Therapeutics, a Cambridge, MA biotech pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) medicines that can work inside cells, faced the dual challenge of accelerating multiple drug programs while building standardized, scalable manufacturing and business processes. To manage rapid growth and maintain flexibility, the company needed a cloud-ready, digital foundation for operations, inventory, procurement, and analytics.

Working with Answerthink, Moderna implemented SAP S/4HANA along with SAP Fiori, Concur, and SuccessFactors to integrate inventory and materials management, purchase-to-pay, and accounting and to improve data quality. The rollout sped development and manufacturing (including a reported 10x increase in mRNA constructs built per month), delivered better process visibility and analytics, and provided a scalable platform for future AI/ML and IoT-driven innovation.

Moderna Therapeutics

Marcello Damiani

Chief Digital Officer