The pharmaceutical company has about half of its processes digital and is on its path to go fully digital soon
UMESH MEHTA
JUBILANT LIFE SCIENCES
Internally, you may encourage ideation and simulation within the teams and externally, we can work on a platform wherein we can throw a challenge and get the ideas from institutes. We will be more than happy to do tie-ups with the institutes such as the IITs. Jubilant is ready to fund the ideas coming in.
Working on mobility and analytics in the last two years have been both a continuous journey as well as digital transformation projects for Jubilant Life Sciences. “Working on mobility and analytics has been a constant journey. We keep adding applications under our mobility platform and on all other platforms,” says Umesh Mehta, Senior VP and CIO, Jubilant Life Sciences.
The pharmaceutical company, way ahead of its peers in terms of adapting itself to latest technologies, has a Cloud First strategy in place. “On the supply chain end, we have gone with the Cloud-based application, to map end-to-end processes on this application. So that gave a lot of agility to the supply chain team in terms of looking at end-to-end supply chain,” says Mehta.
He feels it is hard to quantify the ROI on such initiatives as they are more of people initiatives and create larger value for the enterprise. “These projects have helped immensely in terms of improving customer experience and the ease of doing business with the company,” shares Mehta.
Yet it is a long away ahead from Mehta's dreams of seeing digital as the core of Jubilant and making all the processes, products and services digital. “Whatever products and services we are offering and whatever the internal processes are to make them digital,” he adds.
However, the goal may not be as far out as it may seem. At present, 40-50 per cent processes in the company are digital. Whatever platforms Jubilant is now creating, it is bringing them on the digital platform. The company is doing a couple of pilots on energy conservation, on productive maintenance using IoT and is planning to digitise the manufacturing data wherein it can get the performance of the plants on the digital platform.
This means if the manufacturing head is travelling out of station, he will get the reports on his dashboard on parameters like how a plant is performing as well as other ongoing operations in the plant and so on and so forth. “We can go a step further in which the person who is operating the plant or the GPS system will be able to take the corrections online and make necessary changes. Having the dashboard, one on the plant performance, and giving them the capability to change as and when required is what we are doing to go digital,” says Mehta.
To further innovate using digital technologies, Jubilant is running a programme where the company encourages team members to be reachable to each other. Jubilant is now exploring ideas, both big and small, and then there will be teams through which ideas will pass so that the ideas are filtered. They will pick up five-six ideas and then if some funding is required, the company will provide the same.
We are evaluating the Idea Life Cycle Management Application and the current process we are working on apart from what we already have,” opines Mehta.
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