Repligen
Repligen is a bioprocessing-focused life sciences company bringing expertise and innovation to its customers since 1981. They are inspiring advances in bioprocessing through the development and commercialization of high-value products and flexible solutions that address critical steps in the production of biologic drugs.

Information
- Industry
- Biopharmaceutical
- Location
- US, Netherlands, Japan
- Company size
- 250 – 500 employees
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About Repligen
Repligen is a bioprocessing-focused life sciences company bringing expertise and innovation to its customers since 1981. They are inspiring advances in bioprocessing through the development and commercialization of high-value products and flexible solutions that address critical steps in the production of biologic drugs. Answerthink teamed with our United-VARS partners, CTAC (The Netherlands) and Cresco e-Solution (Japan) , to assist with the global rollout of this project.
Project Overview: Global implementation using United VARs
Key Challenges
- High-growth, global company, with multiple out-of-date and non-integrated legacy systems
- Legacy master data not sufficiently robust or well-controlled for the requirements of the corporation
Key objectives
- Operate the global corporation on one integrated system, for efficient operations and one version of the truth analytics
- Phase 1: Wide-scope go live with the core Massachusetts facilities, including HQ
- Phase 2: Implementation in US, Japan and The Netherlands – live August 2020
Project highlights
- Answerthink’s first wide-scope implementation of S/4HANA’s embedded analytic and other Fiori apps (> 200 apps)
- Complex infrastructure hosted on AWS with High Availability and Single Sign-On
- Comprehensive scope including Finance, Purchasing, Extended Warehouse Mgmt., Sales and Distribution, Production, Quality, Service, ProcessWeaver and integration to Salesforce
- Greenfield implementations with consultant team remote
Benefits
- Fully integrated system with improved business process flows
- Platform for continued global growth and development
- System support for operational excellence and continued improvement
Why SAP
- Integrated, global-capable system with contemporary user interface and embedded analytics
- Preconfigured solution built on SAP Best Business Practices for Life Science Industry
- Answerthink client references in the Life Science and Pharmaceutical Industry
United VARs members assisted with local implementation
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