Published on 03-Aug-2010
Validated on 05 Nov 2012
"These tools will provide the industry-leading insight we need to continue identifying new ways to reduce our energy consumption and waste. " - Nathan Mott, vice president of business process, McKesson Corporation
Customer:
McKesson Corporation
Industry:
Healthcare, Life Sciences
Deployment country:
United States
Solution:
Smarter Planet
Smarter Planet:
Smarter Healthcare, Smarter Supply Chain
Overview
McKesson Corporation is the world’s largest healthcare services company and the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America—providing one-third of the medicine used there every day, as well as supplying more than 40,000 U.S. pharmacy locations.
Business need:
McKesson is committed to protecting the environment, but its vast supply chain makes it difficult to identify the most promising approaches to reducing energy consumption and waste.
Solution:
McKesson is adopting a supply chain sustainability management solution to measure and analyze environmental impact throughout its distribution network—including warehousing, transportation and end-of-life product returns. The solution will identify the most cost-effective actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, water use, energy consumption and waste disposal.
Benefits:
• Creates greener product flow through comprehensive reporting and analytics of every step in the supply chain
• Expands the options for sustainability with tools that allow what-if modeling by site, region, product family, department and more
• Widens the circle of employees who can participate in protecting the environment by providing a web-based system for entering and understanding supply chain data
Case Study
McKesson Corporation
San Francisco, California, United States
Life Sciences; Healthcare
www.mckesson.com
Solution Components
• IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence
• IBM DB2®
• IBM WebSphere® Application Server
• IBM Research
McKesson Corporation is the world’s largest healthcare services company and the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America, providing one-third of the medicine used every day in North America, as well as supplying more than 40,000 U.S. pharmacy locations.
The Need
McKesson is committed to protecting the environment, but its vast supply chain makes it difficult to identify the most promising approaches to reducing energy consumption and waste.
The Solution
McKesson is adopting a supply chain sustainability management solution to measure and analyze environmental impact throughout its distribution network, including warehousing, transportation and end-of-life product returns. The solution will identify the most cost-effective actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, water use, energy consumption and waste disposal. In cases of investments eligible for creating carbon certificates, the solution can help with carbon emission calculation and carbon credit revenue projection.
What Makes It Smarter
- Creates greener product flow through comprehensive reporting and analytics of every step in the supply chain, quantifying the impact of changes in logistics policies on operating costs and the environment
- Expands the options for sustainability with tools that allow what-if modeling by site, region, product family, department and more
- Widens the circle of employees who can participate in protecting the environment by providing a web-based system for entering and understanding supply chain data
"These tools will provide the industry-leading insight we need to continue identifying new ways to reduce our energy consumption and waste." — Nathan Mott, vice president of business process, McKesson Corporation
For more information
Contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner. Visit us at:
ibm.com/healthcare
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Software:
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, WebSphere Application Server
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