Pascual Laboratories (PascualLab) partnered with PLDT and ePLDT to further improve the way it produces, manufactures, and markets its products.
(From left) First Vice President and Head of PLDT ALPHA Enterprise Vic Tria; Group Financial Controller of ePLDT Group Dang Garcia-Amistoso; Senior Vice President and Head of PLDT & SMART Enterprise Business Groups Jovy Hernandez; President & CEO of Pascual Laboratories, Inc. (PascualLab) Jappy Pascual; Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Corporate Administration & Information Communication Technology Department Joseph Gran; and Director for HROD, Design Services and Corporate Communications Mia Pascual Cenzon engage in a partnership for the healthcare company’s adoption of Office 365 for its employees in its headquarters in Quezon City and in satellite offices in Bulacan and Nueva Ecija.
ePLDT and PLDT Enterprise—the B2B arm of PLDT—will provide the organization and its teams with an office suite of solutions that will help address several work challenges. One of these is ‘long distance work relationship,’ a pressing issue brought on by the multi-location of the pharmaceutical company’s offices, and that had posed a challenge to the seamless everyday flow of work at its corporate office, plant, and farm.
“Every day, we experience challenges in the office—from missing files to attaching huge documents in our emails. Most days, we are able to overcome them; but looking at it from a long-term perspective, they may have caused us a significant and unnecessary amount of time, effort, and expenses. They also affect our efficiency and productivity at work, which lead to delays in our deliverables. Through Office 365, we are closing the gap on distance and conflicting schedules. We are transforming the way we collaborate and the way we manage and share data and files,” said PascualLab director for HROD, Design Services and Corporate Communications Mia Pascual Cenzon.
Office 365 is a suite of productivity tools, which allows users to work anytime, anywhere, and on any device. It boasts of communication solutions built for effective team collaboration—from email and IM (Instant Messaging) to social networking and video conferencing.
To educate PascualLab employees, ePLDT conducted the Office 365 Caravan in the company’s headquarters in Quezon City, at its manufacturing plant in Balagtas, Bulacan, and at its organic farm (the largest certified-organic farm by the Organic Certification Center of the Philippines)—Leonie Agri Corporation—in Nueva Ecija.
“Innovation is part of our core values but most of the innovation is at the manufacturing side of our business. The operations and services we have here in the main office should be on equal footing and of equal priority when it comes to innovation. This is where we need Office 365 the most,” said of PascualLab president and CEO Jappy Pascual, “With the challenges posed by an ever-changing world, it is vital that we remain relevant in adopting technological advancements that improve experience, efficiency and multiply results,” he added.
With Microsoft Office 365, PascualLab’s processes and services will be delivered through cloud to save time and resources, access business information and data in a secure platform, and revolutionize collaboration through business applications that employees are already familiar with.
PascualLab has initiated steps to promote internal collaboration as well as support, enhance, and empower its workforce’s mobile experience with Office 365. For ePLDT Group Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Nerisse Ramos, this means ensuring that a trailblazer in the pharmaceutical industry such as PascualLab will be more able to achieve its vision for strong, healthy families with the help of the best digital business solution available today.
PLDT and SMART SVP and head of Enterprise Groups Jovy Hernandez also noted: “The workforce of today is evolving rapidly. They are empowered, agile and dynamic and offer enormous potential for enterprises of all sizes. Through the right digital solutions, businesses can harness and utilize that potential. We are happy to partner with PascualLab in pursuing that mission.”
ePLDT is a Cloud Solutions Provider of Microsoft Office 365 in the Philippines and one of the leading in the Asia Pacific region. It received an International award from Microsoft as the PH Country Partner of the Year for 2017, and the Microsoft Philippines SME Cloud Service Provider Partner of the Year 2017.
