AmerisourceBergen reorganizes management

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. Drug distribution and health services giant AmerisourceBergen Corp. today announced a major restructuring of its operations.

The result, said company spokesman Michael Kilpatric, will be a “more streamlined organizational structure designed to drive increased efficiency and effectiveness.”

In line with the changes, Terry Haas, ABC executive vice president and chief integration officer, has left the company “to pursue other interests,” according to the company. ABC president and chief executive officer R. David Yost praised Haas for his “extraordinary contribution to AmerisourceBergen,” as well as the major role he played in the integration of Amerisource and Bergen Brunswig following their merger.

Yost explained the restructuring as follows: “To continue meeting the challenges of an ever changing pharmaceutical environment, AmerisourceBergen needs the infrastructure and cost structure that allows the Company to compete as the most efficient and effective operating company in our industry. It is with that singular focus that we are further integrating our organization.”

The organizational changes are effective immediately. Among the management shifts underway:

• Michael DiCandilo, ABC executive vice president and chief financial officer, expands his duties with the added position of chief operating officer for AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp. (ABDC) and continues to report directly to Yost. The ABDC functions reporting to DiCandilo in his new role include Supply Chain Management; Operations—including the distribution network—and Financial Operations, which previously reported to him. Yost continues to lead ABDC and continues to have the executives leading sales and marketing reporting to him.
• Steven Collis, executive vice president of AmerisourceBergen and president of the ABC Specialty Group, also has an expanded role that now encompasses supervision of PMSI, the company’s workers’ compensation business. “Steve continues his responsibilities for helping shape the policy and strategy of ABC and for more closely integrating [the specialty group] across AmerisourceBergen,” the company noted. He continues to report directly to Yost.
• Thomas Murphy, senior vice president and chief information officer, will also take on additional duties by assuming leadership of Business Transformation, the company’s multi-year process improvement project, which includes design of an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system for ABDC and the corporation. Yost continues his executive leadership of the overall improvement effort, while Murphy continues to report directly to DiCandilo.