A Study Of System Integration In Joint-Venture Pharmaceutical Company

In pharmaceutical industry, companies are facing the challenges from both internal and external perspectives. Establishing Join-Venture Company is the win-win solution for both multi-national Pharmaceutical companies and local companies. Local companies can leverage the opportunity to learn from multi-national companies on product research and manufacture, while multi-national companies can take advantage of local companies’local experience and strength, to better understand local policy, optimize product portfolio and resource allocation, reduce optional cost, improve product coverage, and ultimately serve more patients in China.As the growing of Enterprise Information Technology Management, Information System Integration becomes one of the key components for Enterprise Management. Especially to Join-Venture Company, the most important step is to establish the enterprise information systems based on the unique requirements from the Joint-Venture company, and leverage mother companies’mature capabilities, while keeping some flexibility and freedom for Joint-Venture Company. The key problem for Joint-Venture Company’s Information System Integration, during the company establishment and integration, is how to enable the collaboration between Joint-Venture Company and mother companies, best foster the synergy, and set up the information systems tailor made for Joint-Venture Company.In order to find an effective model and strategy for Joint-Venture Company system integration, this paper articulates the Enterprise Information Technology Management and Merge&Acquisition theories, and based on available integration models to study the feasibility. And then it identifies the possible integration models based on business requirements and strategies. Finally, it describes how to use the model to guide the system integration through real case study on M&S Join-Venture Company.This paper focuses on the study of Joint-Venture Company information system integration models, through both strategic and tactic perspectives, and it provides an different angle on system integration theories, by sharing the thoughts and examples on information system integration methodology.