SAP BUSINESS ALL-IN-ONE FOR LIFE SCIENCES

When you're faced with market dynamics dictated by patent expirations, the rise of targeted treatments, and regulatory compliance, how do you capitalize on your strengths and prepare for growth?

By ensuring that you can make good decisions, quickly. That you can maintain efficiencies across your operations. And that you can engage with strategic business partners in co-development and co-marketing activities.

To ensure your ability to adapt as your business grows, you need enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that caters to your specific business processes. Software that:

• Provides instant visibility into processes and assets for improved decision making
• Standardizes and automates core business processes for efficiency and scalability
• Mitigates company risk through strict regulatory compliance
• Promotes collaboration with customers, suppliers, and other business partners to effectively respond to changing market needs

SAP Business All-in-One: Software for Innovation, Compliance, and Growth

The SAP Business All-in-One solution combines the proven SAP software with SAP Best Practices and "quick start" accelerators to address core industry business processes – from regulatory compliance and validation to supply chain management – getting every facet of your business running smoothly.

In fact, a solution to handle your core business processes can be implemented in 12 - 24 weeks. And, because it's built on open standards, SAP Business All-in-One supports modular deployment – so you can add to and adapt the solution as business needs change.

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SAP Business All-in-One offers a complete solution for midsize life sciences companies. Based on 35 years of experience with nearly 3,300 installations within the industry, our software can help you control operating costs, improve product innovation, minimize risk, and deliver solid financial results.

• Improved decision making to realize your growth potential – Integrate processes and data across your business to remove roadblocks and silos – and make decisions based on robust, real-time data. With the right information, you are better prepared to expand into fast-growth, high-profit segments.
• Reduced compliance risk – Manage global compliance-related data and documents. By integrating your operations and testing data, you can fully document key process steps, automate core processes – and quickly change processes to meet mandates. Centralized data eases the burden of analysis and lets you report on your operations at a moment's notice.
• Tighter control of operational costs – Get a company-wide view of business information for greater control of your operations, from R&D to distribution. With SAP Business All-in-One, you can cost-effectively schedule resources, utilize assets more efficiently, and lower inventories while reducing product shortages.
• Faster time to market – Take advantage of industry-leading best practices to shorten the time required to receive regulatory approval – and get products to market faster.
• Lower TCO and fast ROI – Leverage a single, scalable platform that makes validation easier – and provides a solid foundation for growth. A fixed-scope, defined-price implementation eliminates project creep, minimizes risk, and leads to the highest ROI in the industry.

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In life sciences, success begins with best practices – proven practices that have kept successful companies profitable in the midst of challenging business realities.

SAP Business All-in-One solutions include SAP Best Practices, providing preconfiguration settings to handle core business processes, including:

• Supply chain planning, warehousing, and logistics
• Sales and service
• Quality, compliance, and validation
• Procurement
• Manufacturing
• Research and development
• Financials

Experience You Can Count On. Results You Can Measure.

With SAP Best Practices, you can take advantage of proven industry practices without reinventing the wheel. Our best practices:

• Target key business performance metrics
• Are localized for specific regions
• Provide a solid foundation that can be adapted to meet your own unique processes and changing business needs

Plus, preconfigured software based on SAP Best Practices – along with our SAP ASAP Focus methodology and extensive documentation – make implementation fast and predictable. Your solution can be ready for use in 12 - 24 weeks, with tools to ensure successful end-user adoption and continuous improvement over time.

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With SAP Business All-in-One, you can introduce efficiency and automation into your core business operations. And because the solution is fully integrated, you can automate and streamline your entire business, end-to-end. Your SAP Business All-in-One solution includes:

• SAP ERP application – The same enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that runs Fortune 500 companies can integrate your core business processes, giving you a full view into your business operations. The software provides comprehensive support for managing financials, human resources, operations, and corporate services.
• SAP CRM functionality – Leveraging standardized best practices, SAP CRM empowers sales professionals with full visibility into the opportunity pipeline and sales performance, providing the tools and information they need to reduce the sales cycle, enhance revenue potential, and improve sales productivity.
• SAP NetWeaver platform – The SAP NetWeaver platform powers all SAP software, including SAP Business All-in-One solutions. As a standards-based, open technology platform, SAP NetWeaver ensures that you have a solution that can grow with your business. Partners can easily add industry-specific functionality or business processes to the system to help address your unique requirements.
• SAP Best Practices – Because SAP Business All-in-One comes with preconfigurations based on industry best practices, you don't need extensive customizations before streamlining processes and reducing costs. SAP Best Practices include the documentation, forms, and reports needed to get your system up and running quickly.

SAP Business All-in-One Innovations

Recognizing your need for a comprehensive solution that can be easily implemented, adopted, and adapted to meet changing business requirements, SAP has further enhanced SAP Business All-in-One solutions with:

• An enhanced user experience driven by role-based navigation and a user-friendly interface
• Enhanced SAP Best Practices optimized for productivity and ease of doing business
• Extended functional capabilities designed to help midsize companies run their entire business
• Added extensibility by partners, enabling personalization and configuration to meet granular, industry-specific needs
• Streamlined implementation processes that offer a lower, more predictable total cost of ownership

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