Life sciences and healthcare

Accelerate life-saving therapies with life science solutions that bring medications to market faster and improve patient outcomes.
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Run resilient operations while accelerating innovation and improving outcomes

Enhance life science R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain efficiency and deliver better patient care with SAP solutions.

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Our life science and healthcare solutions can help you:

  • Improve medical and ingredient supply management and enhance collaboration along the value chain.

  • Avoid shortages during clinical trials and strengthen compliant batch releases.

  • Support safe, efficient delivery of complex cell and gene therapies.

  • Strengthen patient care with optimized scheduling and staff allocation.

  • Enhance operational excellence with unified, compliant life science processes.

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Drive agile healthcare and life science supply chains

Increase visibility, collaboration, and responsiveness across the value chain to ensure the right products reach the right patients safely, efficiently, and at the right time.

 

 

 

 

Accelerate patient-centered innovation

Bring new treatments and therapies to market faster.  Speed up development cycles and improve batch release processes by connecting research, clinical trials, and manufacturing.

Build trust through compliance and quality

Uphold patient safety, ensure transparency, and maintain product integrity by integrating regulatory and operational data.

Improve patient care with advanced workforce solutions

Strengthen staff engagement, operations, and outcomes with technology that supports staff development, skills, and talent management across clinical and operational teams.

AI for life sciences and healthcare

Streamline supply chain and manufacturing operations with AI that anticipates quality issues and automates regulatory compliance processes.

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Autonomous Regulated Manufacturing

Ensure accurate, scalable, and resilient manufacturing with plan-to-produce (PTP) process orchestration.

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Explore life science and healthcare solutions from SAP and partners that can help your business run better

Enhance supply agility, speed up innovation, and ensure quality by uniting clinical, manufacturing, and regulatory processes with integrated solutions.

Operational and compliance control

Reduce complexity and improve visibility with integrated solutions that help you:

  • Control spending with real-time cost insights and automated processes.

  • Reduce reimbursement delays and operational costs with automated pricing updates.

  • Strengthen regulatory compliance with built-in audit controls.

  • Gain real-time visibility into cash flow with centralized dashboards.

  • Manage audit and compliance risk with connected finance solutions.

 

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Sustainable design

Incorporate circularity into your life science or healthcare supply chain by advancing sustainability goals.

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GRC and cybersecurity

Protect patient data and IP with an integrated approach to governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).

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Enterprise threat management

Prevent ransomware downtime with early attack signals, behavioral analytics, and swift containment.

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MSG Activity-Based Costing Analysis

Identify cost-saving opportunities and reveal key drivers in R&D, quality, and manufacturing using activity-based costing analysis.

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SAP Intercompany Governance by BlackLine

Unify reconciliation, settlement, and compliance across all entities with one hub for standardized intercompany workflows.

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SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks by Vistex

Reduce errors, speed up settlement, and protect margins by optimizing pharma and medtech pricing, claims, and chargebacks.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP solutions for life sciences and healthcare

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Global Data on next-gen life science supply chains

Find out how advanced orchestration solutions and AI-driven platforms from SAP are crucial for bringing innovative treatments to market amid evolving demands.

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Futurum Group highlights automation in batch releases

Learn why there’s an urgent need for automated solutions like SAP Batch Release Hub for Life Sciences to mitigate risks and ensure regulatory integrity in the batch release process.

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Innovate life science supply chains with AI

Transform life sciences with SAP Business AI. Predict trials, personalize medicine, and reduce waste effectively.

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RISE with SAP for life sciences infographic

Explore how RISE with SAP delivers AI-powered cloud ERP solutions to help you scale your life sciences business.

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Scale with AI-driven ERP for life sciences

Discover how RISE with SAP helps life sciences businesses innovate faster, stay compliant, and scale with AI-powered cloud solutions.

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The key to pharma supply chain synergy

Learn how leading pharmaceutical companies are using unified data models for clinical supply chain management.

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See our solutions in action

Learn how solutions tailored to your industry can help you improve operations, innovate faster, and grow with confidence.

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Grow your business with cloud ERP

Discover how SAP GROW helps businesses in every industry scale faster with AI-powered cloud ERP designed for growth.

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See what’s ahead for your industry

Explore SAP road maps to learn about upcoming innovations, product advancements, and future capabilities.

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FAQ

SAP Business Suite offers life science and healthcare organizations a fully integrated, modular set of solutions that helps companies connect and optimize every function across their business. Key business areas include sales, marketing, planning, operations, manufacturing, finance, and logistics. The suite integrates AI, data, and applications into one unified system, creating a continuous cycle of value that drives business transformation.

Yes. SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management is critical for life science organizations to streamline clinical trial management, improve transparency, reduce cycle times, and enhance collaboration between stakeholders involved in clinical trials. The solution helps organizations optimize their supply chain processes, reduce manual tasks, and ensure compliance with stringent industry regulations. It can also integrate with Interactive Response Technology (IRT) and Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS), facilitating demand forecasting and managing specific blinding and randomization needs for clinical trials.

SAP has a range of solutions that help enhance patient care, improve operational efficiency, and drive strategic decision-making.

 

SAP solutions are designed to integrate seamlessly with existing healthcare IT systems, facilitating end-to-end business processes and providing access to semantically aligned health-related data. This ensures connectivity and interoperability with systems using the Health Level Seven (HL7) FHIR international standard.

SAP Cell and Gene Therapy Orchestration is a dedicated solution that supports personalized cell and gene therapies. This specialized platform is designed to handle the intricacies of managing individualized treatments and their supply chains.

 

SAP Cell and Gene Therapy Orchestration streamlines orchestration from order to release with automated workflows and precise, real-time management. It helps reduce fulfillment lead times, improve operational efficiency, and enhance patient safety through complete traceability, chain of identity, and integrated collaboration.

SAP Batch Release Hub for Life Sciences automates and simplifies the batch release process. It addresses compliance needs, reduces manual effort, and integrates with various quality management systems to enhance operational efficiency.

Novartis Pharma AG utilized SAP Batch Release Hub for Life Sciences to streamline its batch release processes, consolidating data from 15 IT systems and improving productivity through automation.

SAP solutions for serialization include SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals and SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences.

 

SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences enables the efficient exchange of serialization data across the supply chain, ensuring compliance with regulations such as the U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD).

 

SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals provides advanced serial number management, including randomization, and supports integration with warehouse operations, third-party logistics providers, and other supply chain partners.

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