Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) is a global contract research organization providing comprehensive, integrated pharmaceutical development, laboratory, and lifecycle management services. PPD needed to replace its legacy quoting and Excel-based estimation tools with a single system to improve forecasting and operational planning with unified data visible to sales, finance, and operations. Key objectives for the engagement included:
AST worked as a true partner to completely transform the client's Configure, Price, Quote processes. AST’s implementation of Oracle CPQ has increased efficiency and responsiveness, which has been extremely beneficial to bid processes."
Colin Warren Senior Practice Director, AST LLCAST worked as a true partner to completely transform the client's Configure, Price, Quote processes. AST’s implementation of Oracle CPQ has increased efficiency and responsiveness, which has been extremely beneficial to bid processes."
Colin Warren Senior Practice Director, AST LLCAST provided PPD a unique combination of experience to completely transform its Configure, Price, Quote processes. AST’s implementation of Oracle CPQ Cloud synchronizes estimating, operations, production planning, and data flow across multiple global locations and product lines.
CPQ was also tightly integrated with Salesforce to support user creation of quotes in CPQ from within Salesforce. PPD has realized the following benefits of its modern solution:
AST’s deep domain knowledge in CPQ implementations provided PPD a single source of truth for quoting processes, increasing efficiency across all business lines and regions.
