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    Pharmaceutical | 9+ Year Partnership

    Salesforce Adoption & Platform Enhancement for a Global Pharma Excipients Leader

    Transforming a core sales system into a business-critical ecosystem across Sales Cloud, CPQ, Experience Cloud, SAP integration, and AI-powered automation for a Germany-based pharmaceutical company with 500+ employees.

    9+

    Years of Partnership

    500+

    Employees Supported

    5+

    Salesforce Clouds Deployed

    $100M+

    Annual Revenue Scale

    Client Overview

    A Germany-based global leader in pharmaceutical excipients and formulation solutions, supporting pharmaceutical companies and distributors worldwide. With 500+ employees and USD 100M+ in annual revenue, the company operates at scale across sales, formulation development, and partner-driven distribution models.

    With complex formulation-driven sales cycles, strict confidentiality requirements, and a broad partner ecosystem, the company required a robust digital platform to manage customer engagement, distributor collaboration, commercial governance, and SAP-backed operational processes.

    Key Business Characteristics:

    • Global pharmaceutical excipients manufacturer with operations across multiple continents
    • Complex formulation-driven sales cycles requiring confidentiality governance
    • Extensive partner and distributor ecosystem requiring self-service collaboration
    • SAP-backed operational processes needing bi-directional Salesforce integration
    • Innovation-led business model with growing global footprint

    Engagement Objective

    We aimed to strengthen and scale the Salesforce ecosystem through targeted enhancements and adoption-focused initiatives. The primary objective was to enable end-to-end digitization of the opportunity, formulation, quoting, and order lifecycle while ensuring secure partner collaboration, seamless SAP integration, and improved decision-making through structured data and analytics.

    Key Focus Areas:

    • Simplifying opportunity creation and lead-to-opportunity conversion
    • Supporting formulation development workflows with confidentiality and governance
    • Enhancing CPQ accuracy, pricing control, and quote documentation
    • Expanding partner and customer self-service through Experience Cloud
    • Modernizing automation and introducing AI-assisted productivity features

    Salesforce Ecosystem Snapshot

    Sales Cloud
    Experience Cloud
    CPQ
    Pardot (Account Engagement)
    Analytics
    SAP Integrations

    Strong focus on partner & customer collaboration, governed opportunity management, and SAP-backed operations.

    Salesforce Solutions Implemented

    Sales & Opportunity Enablement

    • Custom Opportunity Creation component integrated with CLICK & DMS
    • Guided Lead Conversion with automatic Account, Contact & Opportunity creation
    • Opportunity Sharing Framework for controlled multi-distributor visibility
    • Customer Action Plan for win strategies, deliverables, and timelines

    Formulation & Innovation Support

    • C2F (Concept-to-Formulation) solution for confidential, end-to-end formulation development
    • Formulation Tool with expert-guided, standardized formulation design

    CPQ & Commercial Governance

    • Redesigned Quote Documents with enhanced pricing models
    • Quote Validation for real-time business rule enforcement
    • Price Rule Logging for troubleshooting and audit visibility
    • Refactored QCP Scripts aligned to updated pricing logic

    SAP & Digital Integration

    • SAP Contract Integration with bi-directional sync
    • SAP Sample Order Integration for seamless order tracking
    • Website Lead Integration for faster sales follow-up

    Platform Modernization & AI

    • Migration from Workflow & Process Builder to Flow
    • Agentforce AI for assisted creation of Opportunities, Quotes, Line Items, and Call Records

    Pardot — B2B Marketing Automation

    • Pardot (Account Engagement) implementation for B2B marketing automation
    • Automated nurture campaigns aligned to formulation and product interest segments
    • Lead scoring and grading to prioritise high-intent pharmaceutical prospects
    • Engagement Studio journeys mapped to the pharma sales cycle
    • Sales-marketing alignment with real-time prospect activity synced to Sales Cloud

    Experience Cloud Portals

    • Partner Community Portal for distributor self-service and collaboration
    • Customer Community Portal for order processing and real-time order status tracking

    Results & Impact

    • End-to-End Digitization: Complete digitization of opportunity, formulation, quoting, and order lifecycle on Salesforce
    • 9+ Year Trusted Partnership: Long-standing partnership evolving from core sales system to business-critical ecosystem
    • SAP-Salesforce Unification: Bi-directional integration enabling seamless contract and sample order processing
    • Partner Self-Service: Distributor and customer portals enabling collaboration without manual intervention
    • AI-Powered Productivity: Agentforce AI enabling assisted creation of Opportunities, Quotes, and Call Records
    • Governance & Compliance: Confidentiality controls, pricing governance, and audit-ready logging across CPQ processes

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