Managing a great, growing pharmaceutical company involves significant challenges. To be successful, companies need to have cost-effective R&D; attract, manage, and enable a high quality workforce; and achieve new levels of operational excellence – all while managing the strictest adherence to government regulations. In all facets of business management information, management excellence is critical – and SAP can help.

SAP for Life Sciences solutions for the pharmaceutical industry can help your organization manage R&D projects more efficiently by controlling spend, supporting the capture of documentation, and enabling collaboration among researchers. Moreover, SAP can enable quicker, more cost efficient clinical trials by ensuring that your organization has an effective clinical trial supply chain – such as ensuring prompt packaging, labeling, and shipment to different sites.

Your company's workforce is, of course, critical to success in the pharmaceutical industry. But it takes more than good ideas and a strategy to attract, retain, and focus a workforce. That's why many pharmaceutical companies use SAP's human capital management (HCM) solutions. SAP's HCM capabilities enable an organization to recruit more effectively, align people around common corporate goals, enable learning, and more.

As in R&D, the conjunction of great information and collaboration tools, together with a great workforce, drives operational results. From procurement through manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, and order management, the SAP ERP and SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) applications enable efficiency, quality, and customer responsiveness. Moreover, SAP solutions enable simultaneous compliances with a myriad of regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley act, 21 CFR part 11, U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), GxPs, and regulations imposed by the FDA, DEA, EPA, and other agencies.

With SAP, you gain complete software solutions to address your information management needs.