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SAP For Life Sciences: A Platform For Innovation, Growth, And Compliance

Whether your enterprise is a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical devices company, SAP solutions can help you streamline processes for a healthy lead. See how more than 25 selected companies manage innovation growth and achieve compliance with SAP.

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SAP for Life Sciences: Scalable Solutions That Support All Types of Enterprises

SAP for Life Sciences solutions support business processes for key industry segments, including:

Pharmaceuticals -- Optimise R&D investments, improve product safety and quality, mitigate risk, and decrease time to peak sales.
Biotechnology/biopharmaceuticals -- Find better leads faster, identify market opportunities, and attract top-tier partners.
Medical device/scientific instruments -- Improve product quality, speed time to market, manage compliance, cut costs, and improve operating margins.

Case Studies/Successes

	Wyeth Builds New Portal with SAP NetWeaver Pharmaceuticals giant Wyeth built a new Web portal using SAP NetWeaver -- creating a unified view of 20,000 healthcare providers in 90 days with an enterprise service-oriented architecture. Find out more (PDF, 207 KB).
	Roche Aligns Sales with Company Strategy Roche Pharmaceuticals called on SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence and SAP xApp Analytics to accurately assess market share and improve sales planning and forecasting. Read details (PDF, 254 KB).
	SAP Supply Chain Management at AstraZeneca By specialising production units and deploying supply chain management (SCM) best practises, AstraZeneca implemented "make to demand" processes. Learn how SAP SCM helped (PDF, 213 KB).
	Biomet Tackles Complexity and Achieves Goals Biomet Europe used SAP ERP and the SAP NetWeaver platform to better cope with costs in the healthcare sector and manage complex logistics processes. Read the story (PDF, 161 KB).
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Additional Resources

	R&D Solution Brief The SAP for Life Sciences solution portfolio supports innovation to help you manage projects, portfolios, clinical trials and regulatory submissions. Learn more about SAP and biotech R&D (PDF, 99 KB).
	Drive for Growth and Compliance Pharmaceutical manufacturers face great pressure to reduce costs, ensure compliance, and tackle counterfeit products. SAP for Life Sciences greatly eases the burden. Read details (PDF, 216 KB). Log-in required.
	SAP Passes Full QMS Audit In December 2005, Pharmaceuticals Validation Group, an industry interest group, conducted a full QMS audit of SAP software -- reporting no critical findings. Read the SAP INFO annoucement.