Case Study: Leading Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company achieves 75% faster product approvals and faster time-to-market with Software AG

Efficient approval process leads to faster time-to-market

This Fortune 500 multinational healthcare and consumer goods manufacturer, with more than 275 operating companies in 60+ countries and roughly 128,000 employees, relied on webMethods since 2001 but faced a slow, paper- and email-based Approval for Product Release (APR) process. The fragmented, country- and product-specific workflows caused long delays (up to two years), duplicate work, poor visibility, and compliance and audit challenges, and the company needed a harmonized, digitized process to speed time-to-market.

Using the webMethods portfolio—Integration Server, Business Process Management Suite, Content Service Platform, Composite Application Framework and My webMethods Server—the company implemented a unified, workflow-driven platform with a single “living” document, audit logs, prioritization tools and an intuitive UI. The result: product approvals accelerated by 75% (from two years to six months), faster launches, consistent global processes, improved compliance and document accessibility, reduced audit costs, seamless system integration, and better stakeholder communication and visibility.