For details about the benefits and capabilities of SAP for Life Sciences, check out the following information:

Strategies for Success

• "SAP for Life Sciences in the Pharmaceutical Industry" (PDF, 897 KB) – Explore what experts think about recent strategies, solutions, and best practices in the pharmaceuticals industry – and how SAP solutions can help you build compliance into core processes, improve data management, and boost sales and marketing.

Overview Brochure

• "SAP Manufacturing" (PDF, 151 KB) – Learn how companies can use the SAP Manufacturing solution to respond quickly to meet customer needs and increase profits by reducing time to market through SAP world-class solutions in supply chain management, product life-cycle management, customer relationship management, and more.

Solution Briefs

• "Boost Pharmaceutical Sales with SAP Customer Relationship Management" (PDF, 300 KB) – Learn how to target your most valuable customers, increase sales-force effectiveness, and speed time to peak sales for greater competitive advantage. SAP Customer Relationship Management can boost sales by maximizing your marketing efforts.
• "Enabling Growth and Transformation in Pharmaceutical and Biotech R & D" (PDF, 76 KB) – Consider how the SAP for Life Sciences solution portfolio can transform your R & D processes to help you innovate with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
• "Governance, Risk, and Compliance for Life Sciences Companies" (PDF, 279 KB) – Learn how SAP solutions for governance, risk, and compliance can help life sciences companies automate compliance for financial and other critical regulations.
• "SAP Manufacturing – Manufacturing Intelligence Dashboards" (PDF, 78 KB) – Examine how the SAP Manufacturing solution offers intelligence dashboards that provide the visibility that production employees need to rapidly respond to changes in demand or supply and run manufacturing processes at the speed of business.

White Papers

• "Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise" (PDF, 415 KB) – Discover how SAP solutions support lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principles so that you can build an enterprise that lays the foundation for value creation. Log-in required.
• "Complying With U.S. FDA Title 21 CFR Part 11 for the Life Sciences Industry" (PDF, 757 KB) – Find out how life sciences companies use SAP ERP to improve compliance with U.S. FDA requirements. Log-in required.
• "Contract Life-Cycle Management" (PDF, 156 KB) – Consider how SAP solutions enable life sciences companies to achieve an integrated, synchronized, enterprise-wide contract life-cycle management process that is simple, manageable, and predictable. Log-in required.
• "FDA Title 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance Assessment of mySAP Supplier Relationship Management 4.0" (PDF, 1.2 MB) – Review how the SAP Supplier Relationship Management application demonstrates technical compliance with U.S. FDA requirements – through background information and electronic records and signatures. Log-in required.
• "Patient Device Tracking" (PDF, 538 KB) – Discover how SAP solutions enable you to achieve unprecedented visibility into patient data, physician feedback, and cross-functional business processes to identify hospital, physician, and patient relationships. Log-in required.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous Improvement" (PDF, 731 KB) – See how real-time performance management solutions drive excellence in manufacturing performance through better manufacturing intelligence and integration. ARC Advisory Group (September 2007) Log-in required.