This client sells specialty pharmaceuticals to distributors, wholesalers, specialty pharma providers, and national health services around the world. Although as a stopgap measure it was utilizing its previous parent company’s online ordering system under a transfer services agreement, it needed a built-for-purpose digital commerce system that would suit the needs of and streamline the purchasing process for its customers.
This biopharmaceuticals manufacturer now offers its customers a cohesive, streamlined purchasing process. The need for phone-based short orders and real-time availability inquiries has been reduced.
KPMG designed and developed the system via three work streams:
In a B2B digital commerce environment in which orders often cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, the purchasing experience must drive all the solution design. The platform and technological underpinnings must supprt the carefullly purpose-built buying experience.
Although the solution should be built around the ideal buying experience, you'll likley have to pay some "technical" debt by modifying some of your experience desires in order for it to operate correctly within the existing IT systems environment. Untimately, the solution must be balanced among what's viable, feasible, and desirable.
Success requires that technology and architecture, customer experience, and people and change all be addressed during the design and development phases.