November 13, 2006

2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Pharmaceuticals

McKesson www.mckesson.com
RFID Tracking for Pharmaceuticals

Project Lead: Paul Fowler,Vice President of E-commerce and Emerging Technologies
Project Description: Implemented RFID to track the shipments of certain high-value Pfizer and GSK drugs flowing through its facilities. McKesson leveraged Blue Vector's network appliances to connect to RFID readers and other sensors. The system made it easy to quickly build a large widely distributed system that can be centrally managed and integrated with other systems.

Mission Pharmacal www.missionpharmacal.com
Increased Supply-Chain Visibility

Project Lead: Tom L. Johnson, Technical Projects Manager
Project Description: Deployed Ross Systems ERP system to gain the much-needed visibility into the manufacturing pipeline and achieve tighter controls over the sales-order process, which has enabled better decision making across the board.

Solvay Pharmaceuticals www.solvaypharmaceuticals-us.com
Virtual Infrastructure for Datacenter Management

Project Lead: Bruce McMillan, Manager, Emerging Technologies
Project Description: Adopted VMware ESX Server in Solvay Pharmaceuticals' globally dispersed datacenters. McMillan saw results right away and soon added more units, now totaling 11 VMware ESX servers with VMware's centralized management solution, VirtualCenter. With VMware VirtualCenter, McMillan can monitor performance and availability of all of his virtual machines, increasing his team's efficiency.

2006 INFOWORLD 100 WINNERS

Top 10 Finalists
Computing/Tech                                          Distribution/Supply Chain
Education                                                      Financial Services
Government                                                  Health Care
Insurance                                                      Manufacturing
Media/Multimedia                                        Pharmaceuticals
Retail                                                              Services
Sports                                                             Telecommunications
Transportation                                              Unspecified







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