Pfizer has treated the complications of its supply chain with doses of
cloud computing, virtualization and other tools, enabling the drug giant to
track shipments from a large network of internal and external sources with
improved efficiency and accuracy, The Financial Times reports.
As the FT reports, Pfizer has
reconfigured its IT systems for managing its supply chain over the past year and a half in response to a variety of challenges. For
instance, the company's megamerger with Wyeth in 2009 brought its own integration challenges. More recently, the company's
top-selling cholesterol drug Lipitor faces pricing pressure because of new generic competition, forcing Pfizer
to adopt measures to supply the pill as efficiently as possible.