Werum IT Solutions has announced a new strategic partnership with Toyo Business Engineering Corporation (B-EN-G).

B-EN-G’s extensive track record of delivering ERP, MES and logistics systems for Japanese and international pharma manufacturers greatly complements Werum’s manufacturing IT solutions and its flagship product PAS-X MES. The PAS-X Endorsed Service Partner agreement enables B-EN-G to act as a certified service implementation team in Japan for Werum’s premier customers. Together, the two companies are ideally placed to deliver excellent and extended support locally in Japan and to ensure the right expertise is always available throughout the country for the rapidly expanding customer base of PAS-X MES.

“We are absolutely delighted to partner with B-EN-G, one of Japan’s leading business engineering corporations and a key player for the pharma industry,” says Richard Nagorny, managing director and chief financial officer of Werum IT Solutions. “The business vision and cultural fit of our two companies is very strong and with the power of Werum’s PAS-X MES product for the Pharma 4.0 Factory of the Future and with B-EN-G’s large team of experts we are greatly enhancing the value and scale of services that we provide in Japan for our clients and business partners.”

Masanori Osawa, president and chief executive officer of B-EN-G, said, “We are proud to have been providing IT solutions mainly for manufacturing industries over the last 30 years in Japan. The pharmaceutical industry has always been considered of strategic importance for our company so this partnership is very exciting for us. We selected Werum and its PAS-X MES in order to best meet our customers’ needs, including proven improvements of production efficiency and compliance with GMP regulation of pharmaceutical medicines. As a certified PAS-X Service Partner with long accumulated experiences and expertise in the industry, we assure that PAS-X, the leading MES solution for the pharma and biotech industry, will help advance and digitize our customers’ business quickly.”