You don't – and shouldn't – make important investments without gathering relevant information first. Business management software decisions are no different. When you consider SAP software for your life sciences company, it's a great idea to gather reliable outside information. We've assembled the following reports, studies, and white papers so you can hear what industry and software experts think about our business solutions.

Showing 1-10 of 13 Page: 10 assets per page 20 assets per page 50 assets per page 100 assets per page   1 2  Asset Type:  All Asset Types White Papers Aberdeen Reports Business Transformation Studies    Title   Asset Type  "Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean-Six Sigma Enterprise" Learn how you can use SAP software to help address the causes of variability and better manage exceptions, while leveraging lean manufacturing and Six Sigma best practices. Handle large amounts of data and execute complex workflows, while electronically communicating any exceptions simultaneously to multiple locations.        "Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise"  (416 KB) White Papers "Compliance and Traceability in Regulated Manufacturing Industries Benchmark Report" Learn why compliance and traceability in manufacturing has traditionally been viewed as "cost of business." Successfully responding to the challenges of lacking metrics and focusing on document rather than process management is central to transitioning compliance and traceability initiatives to a competitive advantage. (Aberdeen, 2006)       "Compliance and Traceability in Regulated Manufacturing Industries Benchmark Report" (410 KB) Aberdeen Reports "Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation" Examine the trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP) that are driving businesses to adopt an enterprise services-oriented architecture (SOA). And learn how enterprise SOA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation by enabling more responsiveness and agility.        "Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation" (536 KB) White Papers "Is There a Smarter Way to Handle Excess Active and Obsolete Inventory?" Learn efficient ways to handle excess and obsolete inventory. Excess at-risk inventory ultimately impacts a company's bottom line. Tactics used to resolve inventory issues can be costly. Using private, on-line, competitive auction portals provides one way to manage excess inventory with low-overhead execution. (TEC, 2008)  Log-in required.      "Is There a Smarter Way to Handle Excess Active and Obsolete Inventory?"  (288 KB) White Papers "Reverse Auction Best Practices: Practical Approaches to Ensure Successful Electronic Reverse Auction Events" Wondering if electronic reverse auctions (e-auctions) can help your procurement organization bring transparency to the sourcing process and deliver bottom-line results? Discover ways to sell the idea and strategies of e-auctions to both buyers and sellers – and ways to achieve double-digit price compression.  Log-in required.      "Reverse Auction Best Practices: Practical Approaches to Ensure Successful Electronic Reverse Auction Events"  (229 KB) White Papers "The Impact of Technology on Cost in Business Process Outsourcing" Gain insight into the true cost of business process outsourcing (BPO) beyond what is typically reflected in the BPO provider's service price (total contract value). Learn how technology, if chosen and implemented carefully, will have a major impact on driving down these costs, in both the short and long term.        "The Impact of Technology on Cost in Business Process Outsourcing" (224 KB) White Papers "Tightening the Chain – Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies" Maintain operational efficiency while cutting supply chain costs with new approaches, technologies, and methodologies. Third party logistics providers, radio frequency identification rentals, and attribute-based demand planning can help you reduce supply chain costs and boost customer satisfaction. (TEC, 2008)  Log-in required.      "Tightening the Chain – Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies" (237 KB) White Papers Abiomed Find out how the SAP Business All-in-One solution satisfied Abiomed's corporate mantra of "grow anywhere, grow any way" – giving the medical devices manufacturer improved visibility into manufacturing operations and inventories and increased trust in its data. Abiomed's growth strategy has doubled revenues since 2004.       Abiomed (1 MB) Business Transformation Studies Applied Biosystems Investigate why Applied Biosystems, a leading international provider of life sciences research solutions, chose SAP software for global trade services, based on its reputation as an industry standard and its seamless integration. Return on investment was 359%, internal rate of return was 92% – in just over a year.        Applied Biosystems (754 KB) Business Transformation Studies Gen-Probe Examine how Gen-Probe, a U.S. life sciences company, implemented the mySAP Business Suite and SAP NetWeaver platform -- achieving a return on investment of 63% and an internal rate of return of 37%. The firm reduced risk, improved performance measurement, and gained visibility into business processes.   Log-in required.      Gen-Probe (400 KB) Business Transformation Studies Showing 1-10 of 13 Page: 10 assets per page 20 assets per page 50 assets per page 100 assets per page   1 2