From pharma company to distributor to pharmacy to patient. Each step runs on its own software, holding its own piece of the picture.
Each step runs on its own software, holding its own piece of the picture.
3,000+Pharma companies
65,000+Distributors
1.3M+Pharmacies
The leak
Nearly a quarter of its value leaks away.
₹48,000 crore a year
Estimated value lost every year across India’s pharma value chain, to expiry and overstocking, unused and substandard medicines, before they do their job.
Lost every year across the chain to expiry, overstocking and waste.
Source: Primus Partners, “The Leaking Pipeline”
The cause
The answers exist. They’re trapped.
Every distributor knows what sold yesterday. No one sees what’s moving across the network. Stock expires in one place while another runs short, and cash waits in receivables because no one flagged it in time.
Stock expires in one place while another runs short.
69%of pharma companies can’t trace their products beyond the distributor
Source: GS1 India study
The fix
The intelligence layer on top of the ERP you already run.
ConnectsTo your existing system. Nothing replaced, nothing relearned.To the ERP you already run
UnderstandsLearns inside each ERP. Only the learning travels; the data stays.Learns on site; data stays
ActsFlags expiring batches, prioritises collections, suggests what to reorder.Flags, prioritises, suggests
Live across the network
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Ask your business anything. Then let it act.
No menus, no reports, no training. Teams ask in plain language, and Nexpla answers from the systems they already use, then takes the next step with their approval.
Your ERPpowered by Nexpla
Your data stays yours.
Intelligence works only where you allow it. Every distributor, pharmacy and ERP partner keeps ownership and control of their own data. What grows across the network is understanding, never anyone’s private records.
We work alongside the ERP businesses you already trust, never around them.
You own it
Your data belongs to your business and stays under your control.
You decide
Access follows the permissions you set, and you can withdraw them.
It stays private
Your records are never visible to other businesses on the network.
Enterprise-ready
Access control, audit trails and reliability come as standard.
One intelligence layer. Many ways to grow.
Operations
Stock, expiry and reorders handled before they become problems.
Commerce
Orders between distributors and pharmacies, placed in a sentence.
Payments
Collections chased on time and reconciled without the paperwork.
Financing
Working capital unlocked by the business you already do.
The Nexpla thesis · 01—07
What we believe about pharma supply chains, starting with India.
India’s pharma supply chain serves a $60B market through 3,000+ pharma companies, 65,000+ distributors and 1.3M+ pharmacies, and almost none of it can see itself. Orders are re-typed from PDFs. Pharmacies order by phone and WhatsApp with no view of live stock. Stock expires in one place while another runs short, and cash waits in receivables no one flagged in time.
The cost is enormous: an estimated ₹48,000 crore a year, nearly a quarter of what India spends on medicines, is lost before medicines do their job, and weak visibility and traceability sit at the heart of it. We believe this is not a logistics problem. It is an intelligence problem. These are the beliefs Nexpla is built on.
Seven beliefs. One intelligence layer.
We’re not trying to add another tool to the supply chain. We’re building from how this industry already works.
01
A closed industry can’t be fixed from the outside.
Pharma distribution in India runs on relationships, trust and habits built over decades. It is one of the most traditional industries in the country, and it does not open its doors to outsiders. These problems will not be fixed by another app on top. It will be fixed by modernising the supply chain from within.
02
The last generation of tools asked people to change. AI doesn’t have to.
Earlier attempts asked distributors and pharmacies to learn new apps and change how they work. In a closed industry, habits win. Now models have matured, the cost of intelligence has collapsed, and agents can work inside the systems and language people already use. For the first time, an industry can modernise without asking anyone to change.
03
Thousands of SKUs, batches and credit terms are beyond any dashboard.
Every distributor juggles thousands of products, expiry dates, schemes, credit limits and customers who order by phone, app and WhatsApp. No set of rules or reports can reason across that. This is work that is only possible with AI.
04
Deep beats wide.
Integrations don’t change closed industries; a thousand thin connections give you a thousand limits. The ERPs running this industry were often built 30 years ago, for a desktop era, but what they know is irreplaceable. So we go deep: with a few committed partners, we rebuild their software from the ground up as AI-native, carrying all of that knowledge forward.
05
Networks here won’t be pushed. They’ll be pulled.
Nexpla speaks the language of the ERPs this industry already runs on, so any of them, however old, can join without changing a line of code. What makes them join is pull. When orders flow straight from pharma companies into a distributor’s ERP, with no portals and no re-typing, pharma companies want every distributor connected. When a pharmacy can see live stock and order in seconds, it wants every distributor it buys from on the network. Pulled from both ends, distributors plug in, and each connection makes the network more valuable.
06
Data stays where it lives. Only intelligence moves.
In this industry, the data lives inside ERPs, and we believe it should stay there. Every business’s data resides locally, with its owner. Only intelligence moves across the network, and every owner has controls to decide what Nexpla can learn from and act on, and to change that at any time. That is how an industry built on trust can share understanding without sharing its records.
07
AI will be judged by money moved, not answers given.
Expiry avoided. Cash collected. Orders placed on time. The intelligence that wins in this industry won’t be the one that answers questions best. It will be the one that acts inside real workflows and moves real outcomes.
Where this leads
The rails of India’s pharma supply chain.
Nexpla is not another ERP. It is the intelligence layer underneath them. We start deep with a few partners, prove it works, and open the network to everyone: ERPs, distributors, pharmacies, pharma companies, and the ordering, credit and commerce platforms that serve them. Each builds on the same intelligence, and each decides what it shares.
We are building it because we have lived inside this network.
30 yearsacross healthcare
100,000+pharmacies brought online
We’re starting in India because the need is biggest here. The pattern is everywhere.
Sources: market size of $60B is for FY26. The ₹48,000 crore loss is a central estimate (range ₹35,000 to 55,000 crore) from Primus Partners, “The Leaking Pipeline” (2026), equal to about 24% of FY24 domestic pharmaceutical consumption of ₹2,01,372 crore.
Built by people who know how medicine moves.
Software ages. What it knows doesn’t. Together we bring 30 years of experience across healthcare, and we’ve helped 100,000+ pharmacies across India get online and sell digitally. That work taught us something simple: the knowledge this industry needs already exists inside its systems. Nexpla gives it a voice.
100,000+pharmacies brought online across India
The team
Ravi Chandra
Cofounder & CEO
17+ years in health & pharma Supply chain & operations
Anuj Gupta
Cofounder & CTO
12+ years building at scale Hands-on architecture & AI
Anamika Shrivastava
Sales & Ops
100s of ERP partnerships Built the largest ecosystem
Anirudh Agarwal
Engineering
10+ years in engineering Built pharma workflow apps
Venkat Raju
Advisor
Global operator & investor AI, technology & scale
Your data stays yours.
Every business keeps ownership and control of its own data. Nexpla works only with what each business permits, for the work they’ve enabled.
We work alongside the ERP businesses you already trust, never around them.