Orion
Pharmaceutical firm Orion uses TECHNIA Value Components to ramp up speed-to-market and deliver timely product launches.
About the client
Orion is a pharmaceutical company based in Finland and listed on the Nasdaq OMX Helsinki stock exchange.
What did TECHNIA do?
Together with Orion, TECHNIA installed and configured ENOVIA with TECHNIA’s TVCs to make Orion’s systems faster and easier to use.
What were the results?
The implementation went live in January 2012. A second phase was completed in the spring of 2013, adding full support for regulatory procedures of the pharmaceutical marketing approval processes. Today the system has 600 internal and external users.
“Why reinvent the wheel? ENOVIA and TECHNIA’s TVCs have the functionality we need and a proven track record”
Orion, a global pharmaceutical company, looked to other industries to find a smart solution to manage the speed and complexity of its business. The pharmaceutical industry is rapidly changing. Proprietary products in “Big Pharma” are outpaced by generics and specialty products. Success is increasingly dependent on speed to market and timely product launches.
Why reinvent the wheel?
Orion looked for ways to adapt to market changes by increasing efficiency, flexibility in partnerships and networks, exact product launch control, and facilitating regulatory compliance. Life sciences market is strictly regulated with high demands for transparency, data consistency, and traceability.
“The way we handled legacy issues and workflows were not optimized, laborious to use, and did not easily adapt to collaboration with external partners,” says Minna-Liisa Siltala, PLM Project Manager. Orion looked closely at PLM. There were few PLM references in the pharmaceutical industry in the Nordics at the time, but PLM was being introduced in many industries.
“Why reinvent the wheel? ENOVIA and TECHNIA’s Value Components (TVCs) have the functionality we need and a proven track record,” says Siltala.
Adding full support for regulatory procedures
Together with Orion, TECHNIA installed and configured ENOVIA with TECHNIA’s TVCs to make the system faster and easier to use. The implementation went live in January 2012 with functionality to support cross-functional products in ENOVIA.
A second phase was completed in the spring of 2013, adding full support for regulatory procedures of the pharmaceutical marketing approval processes. Today the system has 600 internal and external users.
“Orion’s PLM enables a unique source of truth in product information including standardized product launch and lifecycle management processes for Orion and global partners. It offers information consistency, minimizes rework and iterations, and reduces time to market access,” says Petter Sahlin, TECHNIA’s Sales Executive of Life Sciences. The solution allows Orion to handle increased product and regulatory complexity with limited resources while increasing the number of products and facilitating work with partners.
“PLM for us is about managing the complexity of our business in the most cost-efficient way,” says Siltala. “We can no longer be in our own sandbox and with our own tools. We need transparency and data consistency from the beginning.”
Why TECHNIA?
“When building a solution of this scale, team collaboration is important for success. With TECHNIA, we have a shared vision and passion. When both parties commit to the project, accomplishments are achieved,” says Siltala.
We speed up and streamline product development processes and drive innovation for Life Sciences organisations.
