Could you please be kind enough to show code that explains the reasoning for using a different distribution?

Sure

First part of code is Creating a SOAP envelope based on provided info and the second is SOAP::Lite/SOAP::Data/cookbook/examples...

First part shows raw xml format known as SOAP, meant as a data exchange protocol for computers. Its something "CISCO" related but presumably not covered by cpan already.

Second part shows that SOAP::Lite is almost as verbose as raw soap.

If you go with XML::Compile::SOAP, you let it deal with raw soap, you just feed it a wsdl file, and then ... the examples directory has examples

Compare
https://metacpan.org/source/MARKOV/XML-Compile-SOAP-3.21/examples/temperature/soap-lite.pl
https://metacpan.org/source/MARKOV/XML-Compile-SOAP-3.21/examples/temperature/xml-compile-soap.pl