Oliver Healthcare Packaging

Oliver Healthcare Packaging is a global provider of sterile and high-barrier packaging for medical device, biopharmaceutical, and diagnostic manufacturers. As the organization expanded internationally, its legacy systems could no longer support the operational rigor, data integrity, and compliance required of a fast-growing, highly regulated life sciences company.

Impact

• Integrated global enterprise resource planning (ERP), replacing multiple disconnected legacy systems
• Strengthened data integrity to meet life sciences regulatory expectations
• Scalable SAP platform supporting expansion across the U.S., Asia and Europe
• Foundation for continuous improvement and operational excellence

Why SAP and Answerthink®

Oliver Healthcare Packaging selected SAP S/4HANA and Answerthink® to establish a modern, compliant, and scalable digital core aligned with life sciences best practices.

• Deep life sciences expertise: Answerthink® is a leading SAP partner with more than 4,000 life sciences customers.
• Preconfigured life sciences solution: Built on SAP best practices and extended with compliant processes, documentation, and accelerators.
• Integrated global platform: Contemporary SAP Fiori user experience, embedded analytics, and end-to-end visibility across manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and finance.

Implementation highlights

Answerthink® delivered a multiphase, global SAP S/4HANA transformation built for scale:

• Global design and build, followed by rollout to Oliver’s primary U.S. manufacturing facility
• Subsequent deployments across additional sites in the U.S., Europe and Asia
• Broad functional scope including:
  • Financial accounting and management accounting
  • Sales and distribution – make-to-order (MTO) and make-to-stock (MTS)
  • Purchasing, materials management and warehouse management
  • Production execution, quality management and plant maintenance
• Advanced capabilities: S/4HANA embedded analytics, Fiori apps and manufacturing integrations
• Activated methodology: Fit-gap workshops, Agile sprints, daily SCRUMs and cycle testing
• Lauterbach & Partners extensions: Pricing Cockpit, Engineering Cockpit, MES with six modular applications, Production Planning/Demand Scheduling, and Product Data Management

Outcomes

Following the transformation, Oliver Healthcare Packaging achieved:

• A fully integrated global system with standardized, efficient business process flows
• A strong digital foundation supporting rapid international growth
• Improved data quality, traceability and operational oversight
• A platform that supports continuous improvement, operational excellence and future innovation