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How Mckesson Ensures Business Continuity While Accelerating Innovation This article appears here with permission from the SAPinsider. Copyright © 2020 WIS Publishing. All rights reserved. How McKesson Ensures Business Continuity While Accelerating Innovation SAPinsiderOnline.com Test Automation Helps One of the Largest SAP Platforms in Healthcare Move Fast Without Disruption by Brianna Shipley, Senior Editor, SAPinsider Long before McKesson came to run one of the larg- Rapidly responding to change is difficult with est SAP environments in healthcare, it began in such complex landscapes, but agility is vital for 1833 as a pharmaceutical company that imported McKesson’s business. Numerous factors are driving and sold wholesale therapeutic drugs and chemicals. the company to change faster than ever before— Since its founding, the business has expanded and from healthcare policy shifts to mergers and evolved to reach into nearly every aspect of health- acquisitions to evolving demographics and unprec- care. Today, the Fortune 500 company partners edented health crises, change is a constant. with biopharma companies, care providers, phar- To improve its long-term flexibility, McKesson has macies, manufacturers, governments, and others to a plan to simplify its IT landscape and reduce the deliver the right medicines, medical products, and effort, cost, and risk associated with change. This healthcare services to the patients who need them, includes completing a migration to SAP S/4HANA, when they need them, safely and cost-effectively. consolidating more than seven warehouse manage- McKesson’s extended reach into so many facets ment systems, re-architecting custom applications, of healthcare resembles a central nervous system, and more. As one can imagine, this will take time and the company’s own central nervous system is — likely almost a decade. a distributed IT environment with a complexity To improve its adaptability in the meantime, level comparable to conglomerates such as Amazon McKesson is drastically accelerating the pace at and Procter & Gamble. McKesson’s SAP stack alone which it updates its current IT landscape, including includes 24 SAP instances (running both SAP ERP its SAP systems. While in the past it updated its soft- and SAP S/4HANA systems) with extensive cus- ware every three to four weeks, the business is now tomizations developed by McKesson and third- edging toward daily or even hourly releases. party developers. And McKesson is not just an SAP Given the nature of its business and the complex- shop—its SAP footprint closely interconnects with ity of its systems, any change McKesson makes could many other packaged and custom applications. cause disruptions that ripple throughout the supply SAPinsiderOnline.com McKesson’s Core Business Processes - Distribution Finance Record to Report COPA / Paymetric / BPC / T&E Vertex / SAP ECC FI Order Entry Order Processing Order Delivery Procure to Pay Reporting & Analytics WMS / WCS / Ariba + Custom + BW / BOBJ / Custom App + CRM EAI SAP ECC + VISTEX EAI EAI StreamServe SAP Systems Snowflake Customer Tech Distribution Centers Security Operations Integration GRC / ETD / Mastero / RPA / Mulesoft API / Kafka / Salesforce + CRM National / State SSO Backup Replication / Events LEGEND Core Process Supporting Process Various Methods Figure 1 McKesson operates a complex network of distribution centers, with SAP software as the core, that each can process as many as 60,000+ line items per hour during peak times chain. To prevent unexpected, adverse effects on scalable for hospitals and health systems of all the processes its clients depend on, rapid and rigor- types and sizes — from small rural facilities to ous testing is required for a massive system migra- academic medical centers to multi-site integrated tion, such as a move to SAP S/4HANA. For this delivery networks reason, McKesson recognized that a testing trans- Each segment of the organization processes a formation must be an integral part of its broader large volume of daily transactions. McKesson deliv- digital transformation. With advanced test automa- ers one third of all pharmaceuticals in North tion ensuring the continued integrity of core busi- America, and each of the company’s distribution ness processes, McKesson can move quickly without centers can process an average of around 1 million the risk of disrupting core business processes. line items per day, or 60,000+ line items per hour, during peak business ordering times. Combating the Complexity That To get a sense of the complexity driving these Underlies Healthcare Processes transactions, consider how McKesson takes and and Systems distributes a health system’s order today. A hos- McKesson’s business has four core components: pital worker places an order for gauze pads and insulin, either through a standard customer rela- ■ Providers: Helping healthcare providers navigate an evolving landscape and make smarter deci- tionship management (CRM) interface or the hos- sions about business operations and healthcare pital’s custom user interface (UI). From there, the order moves through McKesson’s order processing ■ Life sciences: Working with life sciences com- and delivery processes, navigating a combination panies to help develop and deliver advanced of SAP, non-SAP CRM, and multiple warehouse medical treatments that lead to improved care management systems. Along the way, various sup- and outcomes porting processes involving distribution centers, ■ Pharmacies: Supporting the missions of pharma- security, operations, and more are triggered. Each cies by expanding the range of medical supplies of these supporting processes are connected by dif- and services they can offer customers ferent integration technologies (see Figure 1). ■ Health systems: Providing pharmaceutical dis- Now, imagine that you are McKesson and one of tribution services that are customizable and your clients asks you to start holding 30% of SAPinsiderOnline.com “Software that doesn’t function correctly can have far-reaching and, in some cases, dire implica- tions due to McKesson’s industry-leading business and life-critical mission,” Khan says. The company needed a testing platform that automates test- ing across every part of its complex systems and processes. After extensive research, McKesson elected to partner with Tricentis and implement its enterprise continuous testing platform, which McKesson identified as the ideal product to work its orders at distribution centers across California, across all its different SAP and non-SAP platforms North Carolina, and Texas. Your existing processes and technologies. were not designed to do this. To make the neces- The Tricentis platform includes three core capa- sary changes, you would need to update the UIs and bilities: agile test management, provided by Tri- business logic across all the related processes and centis qTest; change impact analysis, provided by systems (such as order placement, order processing, Tricentis LiveCompare; and enterprise test automa- and warehouse management). You would also need tion, provided by Tricentis Tosca. to test each component to verify that the individual McKesson was first introduced to Tricentis by changes work as designed. Then, once all the indi- way of qTest. For over a year, qTest has provided vidual updates were finished, you would want to McKesson with centralized visibility and control test the complete end-to-end process to ensure that across its entire software testing practice, including everything works together and that some subtle- manual and automated testing tools, commercial yet-critical element was not overlooked. tools, and open-source tools. It also integrates with When updates occurred less frequently, McKes- a third-party tool application that McKesson uses son verified such changes with a combination of for software management, which helps prevent open-source test automation tools and manual duplicated efforts while improving traceability and testing (about a 40%/60% split). However, with the collaboration. After rolling out qTest across its US push for daily or hourly updates, the testing team locations, Khan says that McKesson noticed a 25% quickly learned that this approach could not keep reduction in its test cycle times. up. The open-source test automation tools focused only on certain technologies, resulting in “islands of test automation,” which meant extensive manual “The journey isn’t just about testing was still required to validate complete end- to-end business processes. This resource-intensive selecting a tool and letting it approach simply does not enable the speed, scope, do that work. It’s also about or accuracy of testing that is essential with the new pace of innovation. The company needed a faster, changing the mindset of not easier way to ensure its core processes would con- just the testers, but also the tinue working after an update. developers, business partners, Increasing Agility Without Risking and other supporting functions Business Disruption To help McKesson reach its goal of rapid updates who use the tool daily.” without business disruption, the company embarked on a testing transformation project in July 2019. This endeavor continues to evolve Danial Khan today based on a three-year roadmap created by North America Service the project’s lead, Danial Khan, North America Transition and Business Service Transition and Business Operations Leader Operations Leader, McKesson at McKesson. SAPinsiderOnline.com Current Future SAP Various SAP S/ANA Consolidated JD Edards Various Components Consolidated WMS Systems WMS +
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