DAIICHI SANKYO

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High performance SAP BW enabled with 64 bit PRIMEQUEST
Mission critical SAP Business Warehouse (BW) for 64-bit environment
Pharmaceutical company
PRIMEQUEST 580
Need to ensure data availability for high performance business planning
while facing increasing data loads following a company merger.
Existing skills assets were retained. Overnight workloads reduced,
Business analysis performance improved, and data loading was
reduced; with three times the data loaded in one third of the time.
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Overview
DAIICHI SANKYO CO., LTD.
Location: Nihonbashi, Chuo Ward, Tokyo J apan
Nature of Enterprise: Research & Development, Manufacturing,
Import, and Sales & Marketing of pharmaceutical products.
Recent trends towards business consolidation in the
pharmaceutical market foreshadowed the merger between
Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd and Sankyo Co., Ltd. On
1
st
April 2007 a new company DAIICHI SANKYO CO.,
LTD. (DAIICHI SANKYO) came into being seeking to
maximize the synergy between the previous businesses. To
help ensure timely analysis and planning DAIICHI
SANKYO use a Fujitsu mission critical IA server
PRIMEQUEST 580 as the platform for their combined
SAP data warehouse solution, SAP BW. Its high speed
data processing and reliability is essential in coping with
the major increases in data resulting from the new
consolidated business.
Mr.Umezawa, General Manager, IT Strategy, in
speaking about the potential advantages of the business
merger and plans for strengthening creativity, productivity
and effectiveness said. The mission of the IT strategy
Department is to enable management strategy through
consolidation of operational processes and information
systems. We needed to understand both the operation and
the technology to achieve our future plans.
Prior to the merger, SAP BW (Business
Information Warehouse) was used by the
Management Planning department and the
Production Management department in
Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. SAP BW
enabled production planning based on
Mr.Umezawa,
General Manager,
management plans plus demand and supply
IT Strategy
fluctuations. Mr.Hirano, Associate Manager,
Implementation Group, IT Strategy Department, said.
Pharmaceutical products need to be provided timely and
take into consideration the balance of supply and demand.
For example, production planning for cold and flu
medicines, typically sold in the winter season, needs to be
fixed during the previous summer.
Even before the merger, the nighttime operation to
batch load data into the business information warehouse
was taking until 5 AM to finish. This had knock-on effects
in operational delays that were also causing problems with
daily operations. In addition, since the volume of data was
expected to increase dramatically, as a result of the
business merger, a replacement server platform had become
essential.
PRIMEQUEST 580 easily handled three times the
data in a third of the time.
Introduction planning for the new system started in
December, 2005. The acceptance benchmark was the
performance to load large amounts of data at very high
speed. Mr.Izumi, Associate Manager, Implementation
Group, IT Strategy Department said, We were using a 32
bit industry standard server with the previous SAP BW
system and faced a limitation in memory space. This
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resulted in our choice of a 64 bit server.
Reliability was also a major factor in the
selection as system downs were seen as
unacceptable with information systems
related to businesses enterprise
management.
Mr.Kakuta,
Manager, Planning For these reasons DAIICHI
Group, IT Strategy
SANKYO finally selected a Fujitsus
Department
mission critical IA server
PRIMEQUEST 580 as their SAP BW platform.
PRIMEQUEST 580 with its 64 bit environment supports
extensive memory space, while the power of the dual core
Intel Itanium 2 processors, provided the capability to
handle growth. PRIMEQUEST also has a duplicating
architecture which enables high mainframe-class reliability
and availability, but in an open server environment. These
features, when compared to other vendors, showed the
major advantages that resulted in Fujitsu being chosen.
System verification was undertaken at Fujitsus
Platform Solution Center in Hamamatsucho (Tokyo) using
a benchmark that reproduced the operations needed to store
purchasing data in the database. PRIMEQUEST 580
achieved the transfer of three times the previous data
volumes in just one third of the previous elapsed time.
The partitioning functions, available
on the PRIMEQUEST 580, also enabled
the new system to host a SAP BW
development server (using 4 CPUs), a
verification server (using 4 CPUs), and
the operational server (8 CPUs). With
Mr.Hirano, the systems capable of being expanded
Associate Manager,
up to 32 CPUs (64 cores), it also showed
Implementation
Group, IT Strategy the scalability to deal with future data
Department
and operational increments.
Mr.Umezawa says, We didnt hesitate to choose
PRIMEQUEST 580. Fujitsus know-how, their ability to
show future prospective uses, plus their support
organization led us to choose Fujitsu.
64 bit Windows retained existing skills and
reduced staff workloads
Introduction of the new system started in September,
2006 and was completed for April, 2007. As well as the
change of SAP BW platform, consolidation of SAP
ERP(SAP R/3) which was previously used by Daiichi
Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Sankyo Co., Ltd., was also
executed.
Fujitsu configured a SAP ERP infrastructure layer and
SAP NetWeaver XI(Exchange Infrastructure). They also
provided the necessary server and storage from their strong
and comprehensive product portfolio. Mr.Kakuta, Manager,
Planning Group, IT Strategy Department, said In the
project, which involving 480 members and had to conform
to the tight schedule of the business merger, Fujitsus
contribution was outstanding.
Although the amount of data increased
following the business merger, the actual
batch data operation was shortened by 2
hours from the introduction of the
PRIMEQUEST. DAIICHI SANKYO
decided on Windows Server 2003,
Datacenter Edition (64 bit) as the
Mr.Izumi, Associate
Manager, Operating system. That meant
Implementation
administrators could reduce their
Group, IT Strategy
Department workloads by using their existing
Windows skills.
Mr.Umezawa and other staff in the IT planning
department relied a lot on Fujitsus SAP skills and support
services. Mr.Umezawa said in closing, In the future,
DAICHI SANKYO will increase its use of SAP BW and
we expect to acquire timely support from Fujitsu.
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