Pfizer live at five sites with asset management

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in Ireland has taken its programme to standardise maintenance, procurement, calibration and MRO purchasing and inventory to a new level, by going live now across five sites with Datastream 71 asset performance management systems. The migration builds on the implementation at the Loughbeg tablet plant, which went live in September 2002, now moving it up to a multi-organisation deployment initially of the purchasing side of the system. The Loughbeg project, which has been providing Pfizer with optimal maintenance and calibration management, was the first of its kind in the sector. Pfizer reckons it boosted the efficiency of its maintenance, calibration, MRO inventory control and purchasing operations, and says it has also allowed it to spread best practice consistent with the regulatory standards of the industry. In the next phase, Datastream 7i will be rolled out for maintenance, inventory and calibration to the other Pfizer plants at Little Island, Loughbeg, Ringaskiddy and Dublin. Hosted from a central location on a single, multi-organisation database, it will allows Pfizer to share information and get economies of scale across its Irish plants. “The successful go-live on December 1st of the Dublin purchasing stream means we have achieved three out of three go-live dates on schedule for the first three phases,” says Peter O’Rourke, IT director for Pfizer, Ireland.