Client Overview
A global pharmaceutical organization needed SAP development support for manufacturing, tolling, acquisition, and divestiture-related initiatives.
Industry
Pharmaceutical
Engagement Summary
SAP development support for global manufacturing and business transformation projects
The organization required full software development lifecycle support for SAP projects connected to toll manufacturing, mergers and acquisitions, business development, licensing, and divestitures.
These projects required deep SAP technical expertise, business process knowledge, integration support, testing discipline, and global delivery experience.
Geographic Scope
Global
Business Challenge
The organization needed ongoing SAP development and configuration support for complex business initiatives involving manufacturing, acquisitions, and divestitures.
These projects affected multiple SAP modules and business processes, including order-to-cash, purchase-to-pay, finance, product costing, supply chain, warehouse management, quality management, global trade, taxation, and master data.
Because the work touched manufacturing, financial, operational, and compliance-related processes, the organization needed a delivery partner with the technical depth to design, configure, build, test, document, and validate SAP changes while maintaining continuity across global operations.
Strategic Requirements
The engagement needed to support several priorities:
- Provide full SDLC development services for SAP projects
- Lead design and build efforts for intercompany toll manufacturing
- Support acquisition and divestiture-related SAP work
- Configure SAP across complex business and technical areas
- Develop and modify ABAP programs and SAP objects
- Support PI and EDI setup and integration
- Configure Brazil taxation and electronic invoicing requirements
- Manage Solution Manager and transport processes
- Support SAP technical upgrades
- Perform complex business process testing
- Validate development changes against business requirements
- Write SOPs and user manuals
- Maintain delivery quality while supporting expanded scope
BCforward’s Approach
BCforward supported the organization with specialized SAP development and configuration expertise across the full software development lifecycle.
The team led design and build efforts for intercompany toll manufacturing and business transformation projects. This included architecture, configuration, development, testing, documentation, and validation across a broad SAP environment.
BCforward configured SAP to support company code and plant setup across key functional areas, including order-to-cash, intercompany operations, financial supply chain management, purchase-to-pay, general accounting, product costing, advanced planning, materials management, inventory management, quality management, warehouse management, global trade, and related areas.
The team also performed ABAP development, supported integration requirements, documented processes, and validated complex business changes against requirements.
Implementation Timeline
Because the engagement was ongoing, BCforward’s work followed a project-based SDLC timeline aligned to manufacturing, acquisition, divestiture, and SAP development priorities.
The implementation model included:
- Project intake and business requirement review
- SAP process and impact assessment
- Solution architecture and technical design
- SAP configuration across required modules
- Company code and plant setup
- ABAP development and SAP object modifications
- Integration, taxation, and EDI setup as needed
- Transport management coordination
- Development testing and defect resolution
- Complex business process testing
- Validation against business requirements
- SOP and user manual development
- User support and knowledge transfer
- Change order review when additional deliverables were required
- Ongoing delivery, enhancement, and support
Solution Delivered
BCforward delivered SAP development, configuration, integration, testing, and documentation support for global pharmaceutical manufacturing and transformation initiatives.
The solution included support for:
- Intercompany toll manufacturing design and build
- Acquisition and divestiture SAP projects
- Company code and plant setup
- SAP configuration across multiple functional areas
- Advanced ABAP programming
- SAP object development and modifications
- PI and EDI setup and integration
- Brazil taxation and electronic invoicing setup
- Solution Manager and transport management
- SAP technical upgrades
- Automated testing tools
- SOP and user manual documentation
- Testing and validation of complex business process changes
Business Outcomes
BCforward continued supporting global SAP development needs for toll manufacturing, acquisition, and divestiture projects.
Key outcomes included:
- Ongoing SAP development support for global manufacturing projects
- On-time project delivery performance
- Expanded support through change orders for additional deliverables
- Full SDLC coverage across design, build, testing, documentation, and validation
- Support for complex manufacturing, M&A, and divestiture-related SAP requirements
- Strong alignment between SAP technical work and business process requirements
- Continued support for global pharmaceutical manufacturing, finance, supply chain, warehouse, tax, and compliance processes
