10/08/2012

Innsbruck, October 08, 2012 – By implementing Infor M3, HERMES hopes to
standardise and modernise its IT infrastructure, which is currently composed of heterogeneous software installations. HERMES has commissioned software company terna with the implementation of Infor M3.

After an extensive ERP selection process, the HERMES Group decided to implement the ERP solution Infor M3 throughout the company. The software upgrade affects the company’s headquarters in Grosshesselohe (near Munich), both of its production facilities in Wofratshausen and Wolfsberg, and its location in Vienna. In addition to Infor M3’s comprehensive functions, HERMES was particularly impressed by M3 Smart Office’s highly ergonomic user interface.

“By investing in a new ERP system, we wanted to make our business processes more transparent and standardise them across all of our locations. We hope it will optimise our reaction times and efficiency, which are major factors in the success of the Hermes Group, and also help us meet the needs of our increasingly international customers,” says Holger Dietel, CEO of HERMES, explaining his expectations of the company’s new ERP system.

Currently, HERMES manufactures a wide range of different pharmaceutical products – including contract manufacturing orders – in various dosages. In the context of the ERP project, HERMES hopes to harmonise processes between both of its production facilities.

In addition to the standard Infor M3 modules for the areas of financial management, production, product data management, logistics, planning, procurement, and sales, the company plans to implement further Infor M3 modules, such as the ones for document archiving and process automation.

HERMES considers the ERP project – named ‘NESY’ (‘New ERP System’) – to be of central importance. During the implementation process, project managers will be released from up to 80 percent of their daily duties. The HERMES-terna project team, relieved of everyday tasks, will come together in the company’s ‘NESY-CITY’ project building and work together in ideal conditions to advance the ERP project. In this way, the pharmaceutical company hopes to have the ERP system up and running ‘with no side effects’ by Q2 2014. Following the upgrade, HERMES plans to implement Infor M3 at Bad Heilbrunner Naturheilmittel GmbH & Co. KG, which is also part of the HERMES Group.

HERMES Group

The companies in the HERMES Group (HERMES ARZNEIMITTEL GmbH, HERMES PHARMA GES.M.B.H., BAD HEILBRUNNER Naturheilmittel GmbH & Co. KG) operate pharmaceutical and health care enterprises at sites in Grosshesselohe, Wolfratshausen, Bad Heilbrunn, Vienna, and Wolfsberg. Over 750 people work for HERMES, 450 of whom are employed at the two production facilities in Wolfratshausen and Wolfsberg (Austria). As Europe’s largest producer of medicinal fizzing tablets, HERMES represents the highest level of technological expertise in the development and manufacturing of fizzing and other soluble medicinal preparations, such as Biolectra or Cevitt.

www.hermes-arzneimittel.com

www.hermes-pharma.com

terna GmbH – Centre for Business Software

Founded in 2005, terna is now part of the Allgeier Group and is among the most important providers of ERP software solutions in the German-speaking world. The company, which is headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria, currently employs over 160 people at 7 locations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. terna is a full-service provider of ERP software and business process management solutions for sophisticated medium-sized companies. Our core competencies include the implementation of the world’s leading ERP solutions, as well as the analysis and optimisation of business processes. With the numerous industry solutions in its product range, terna offers individual, custom-tailored business software to the most diverse companies. Additionally, terna is an infor/Lawson Platinum Channel Partner – the highest certification grade a company can achieve. terna currently works with 190 successful, primarily international production and wholesale companies.

www.terna.com