Life Sciences / Pharma

Top 10 global pharmaceutical company

A leading global pharmaceutical company accelerated procurement cycle times by deploying an intelligent procurement orchestration platform powered by AI, guided buying, and automated intake workflows. By creating a centralized “single front door” across sourcing, onboarding, contracting, and procurement operations, the company improved compliance, reduced manual effort, and established a scalable foundation for global procurement transformation.

Life Sciences / Pharma
$40B+

annual revenue

70k+

employees

90+

countries

  1. Challenges
  2. ORO Solutions
  3. Value Delivered
  4. Integrations

Challenges

As the company modernized its global procurement ecosystem, the organization faced growing complexity across supplier onboarding, sourcing, contracting, and procurement intake workflows. Fragmented systems, multiple buying channels, and manual PR reviews created operational friction for both business users and procurement teams, limiting visibility and slowing procurement cycles.At the same time, the company was undergoing a broader procurement modernization initiative that included migration planning from ECC to S/4HANA and the evolution of legacy SAP Ariba workflows. The organization needed a future-ready orchestration platform capable of supporting global scale while maintaining strong governance, compliance, and process consistency across procurement operations.

ORO Solutions

By centralizing procurement orchestration, the company accelerated procurement cycle times, reduced manual effort, and improved visibility across sourcing, onboarding, and contracting workflows. The intelligent procurement front door created a single source of truth for procurement interactions while significantly improving both user and supplier experience.

Key outcomes included:

• 50% reduction in third-party onboarding cycle times
• ~10% time savings across user procurement activities
• Eliminated need to navigate multiple fragmented systems
• AI-driven PR review and intelligent sourcing decisions
• Real-time quote benchmarking and faster negotiations
• Stronger compliance underpinning every workflow
• Scalable foundation for long-term procurement transformation

Value Delivered

By centralizing procurement orchestration, the company accelerated procurement cycle times, reduced manual effort, and improved visibility across sourcing, onboarding, and contracting workflows. The intelligent procurement front door created a single source of truth for procurement interactions while significantly improving both user and supplier experience.

Key outcomes included:

• 50% reduction in third-party onboarding cycle times
• ~10% time savings across user procurement activities
• Eliminated need to navigate multiple fragmented systems
• AI-driven PR review and intelligent sourcing decisions
• Real-time quote benchmarking and faster negotiations
• Stronger compliance underpinning every workflow
• Scalable foundation for long-term procurement transformation

Integrations

SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, IronClad, Fairmarkit, Certa, Amazon Business, Science Exchange, LabViva, Candex