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Pfizer’s Senior Vice President Srikumar Ramakrishnan wins Innovation of the Year Machine Learning Platform for DrugDiscovery and Supply Chain.

  The Forbes Innovation Awards is a part of Global Enterprise #innorev – a global movement to mobilise innovation to serve humanity and drive long-term value creation in businesses. Srikumar Ramakrishnan SVP Pfizer wins innovation award of the year 2021 for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Drug Discovery and Supply Chain This year's judging panel comprises of Jamie Dimon, CEO JP Morgan, Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook, Professor Wonjoon Kim of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Ajay Banga, Former CEO MasterCard, FINOLAB and former head of global innovation of Bank of Tokyo – Mitsubishi UFJ, Professor Nadia Thalmann of Nanyang Technological University, and Professor Natcha Thawesaengskulthai of Chulalongkorn University. The pandemic is a stark reminder that the only way forward for humanity lies in innovations. Standing still is not an option. If businesses have been wondering if they should put more resources into R&D ...

Johnson & Johnson completes multi-year SAP implementation: Asia CTO Srikumar Ramakrishnan

  J&J new technology has delivered a $75 million boost to EBIT in the 2021 financial year, following the completion of its multi-year SAP roll out and further investment in digital technology said Srikumar. The Healthcare Giant said the largest and final phase of the SAP project was implemented in May 2021. J&J’s 4S program - ‘Simple, Standard, Single SAP’ - covers eight end-to-end business processes and consolidates J&J’s entire business on an S/4 HANA core, supported by SAP cloud add-ons. At the time, J&J CTO ASIA Srikumar described the deployment of SAP as a “historic, and game-changing, milestone” and noted, “the underlying business has transitioned without major disruption.” “Our manufacturing operations have continued uninterrupted, and we now have clear visibility on sales and billing. The system is already delivering material operational insights and efficiencies and helping improve product security and customer outcomes,” he said in a statement. “...