HCL Technologies to execute digital transformation for Finnish pharma distributor Oriola Corp

The digital transformation, to be executed by HCL, will augment Oriola’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise warehouse management (EWM) systems located in Sweden and Finland. Oriola will be able to transform and simplify its business operations using an agile, cloud-based ERP platform, which will also modernise its application stack and optimise the costs involved with operations of IT, according to HCL Technologies.

The project will help Oriola provide an improved system for responding to future customer and business requirements, while strengthening collaboration across the company, improving transparency and supporting the management of business in a cross-market operating model.

On the partnership, the Chief Digital Officer of Oriola, Mikael Nurmi said, “Through a common system, we will strengthen our processes and have access to common data, both of which will support us in serving our customers better.”

“We are delighted to participate in Oriola’s journey to becoming a forerunner in the advanced distribution of pharmaceuticals and in providing advisory services to pharmaceutical companies throughout product life cycles, while further growing our business in the Nordics region and across the life sciences and pharma sector globally,” said the Corporate Vice President of Europe and Africa, HCLTech, Pankaj Tagra in a press release on March 27.

Shares of HCL Tech traded 0.9% lower at ₹1,549.75 per piece on the BSE at 3 PM.