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Life Sciences

Improve patient outcomes, safety, and quality of care by collaborating across the digital health sciences network with life sciences solutions from SAP.

Global supply chains require full, real-time visibility into demand

The scaled deployment of our personalised patient solutions helps create more flexible, agile, and transparent supply and logistic networks that can address challenging consumer demands across the global health network. 

Research, Development, Engineering, and Compliance

  • Global Regulatory Compliance
  • Project and Portfolio Management
  • Product Compliance
  • Product Development and Engineering
  • Product Formulation and Recipe Development
  • Real-World Evidence
  • Talent Management and Learning

Strategic Sourcing and Procurement

  • External Workforce Management
  • Invoice and Payables Management
  • Operational Procurement
  • Service Procurement
  • Sourcing and Contract Management
  • Supplier Collaboration
  • Supplier Management

Demand-Driven Supply Networks

  • Cold Chain and Transportation Management
  • Demand Management and Insights
  • Order Promising
  • Response and Supply Planning
  • Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning
  • Serialisation and Logistics Networks
  • Warehouse Management

Compliant Manufacturing

  • Asset Operations and Maintenance
  • Industrial Insights
  • Intelligence Asset Management
  • Manufacturing Execution
  • Manufacturing Networks
  • Manufacturing Operations
  • Mobile Asset Management

Multichannel, Sales, Marketing, and Service

  • Field Service Management
  • Omnichannel Commerce Management
  • Omnichannel Customer Service
  • Optimised Marketing
  • Patient Engagement
  • Sales Performance Management
  • Single Customer View
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Solve your specific life sciences needs

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Enable the Intelligent Enterprise in life sciences

See how SAP plans to help the world run better and improve lives with a digital health sciences network that simplifies collaboration across the value chain.

Unlock business value with digital technology

Lower costs while improving patient safety and quality of care by connecting innovative technologies with integrated business solutions to create an intelligent enterprise.

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79%

of pharmaceuticals and life sciences CEOs believe over-regulation could sidetrack growth prospects.

PwC

50%

improved efficiency through real-time, automated collaboration with suppliers.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

89%

of pharmaceuticals and life sciences CEOs identified that technological advances are transforming their business.

PwC

SAP Road Map for Life Sciences

Explore our life sciences road map to learn more about current industry solutions, planned innovations, and future direction.


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Current release highlights

  • Use of a secure data-sharing platform controlled and owned by patients
  • Identification of medicinal products through a data model based on ISO standards
  • Automated device onboarding and machine learning with SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service
  • Adoption of extended warehouse management and global batch traceability solutions from SAP
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Upcoming innovations

  • Application of conversational voice interfaces and machine learning
  • Auditing of procurement collaboration with blockchain
  • Integration of extended warehouse management and global track-and-trace solutions from SAP
  • Intelligent compliance management with machine-learning capabilities
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Future plans

  • Automate invoice processing with exception management driven by artificial intelligence
  • Benefit from country versions of SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals
  • Support simulation-based digital twins with the inclusion of machine learning
  • Offer intelligent services with bots enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning 

Find life sciences software tailored to your needs

Link cloud solutions to networks and smart sensors – while maintaining patient privacy – to leverage Big Data analysis and connected health models.
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SAP Integrated Business Planning in use, helping a life sciences company to optimise inventory operations to meet future demand profitability

SAP Integrated Business Planning

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SAP Integrated Business Planning

Meet future demand profitability by combining capabilities for sales and operations, demand, response and supply planning, and inventory optimisation. Take advantage of powerful supply chain analytics, what-if simulations, alerts, and more – in the cloud.

SAP Integrated Business Planning

Jump-start your transition to an intelligent enterprise

Accelerate implementation time, reduce risks, and get ready for your digital journey with the SAP Model Company service for life sciences.


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SAP Model Company for Life Sciences

Become a digital leader with a prepackaged, ready to use service that delivers predefined end-to-end business processes, test cases, configuration guidelines, and project accelerators for your industry. 

How is SAP leading digital transformation?

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Realise your potential with the Intelligent Enterprise

Embrace next-generation technologies by becoming an intelligent enterprise with industry expertise from SAP. As your trusted innovation partner, SAP can help you launch a digital platform, so you can chart your future without bounds.

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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Safeguarding patient health from counterfeit drugs

Discover how Boehringer Ingelheim built a digital network on a cloud platform to track its products through the supply chain. 

Faster patient treatments in 70 countries

Find out how digital procurement helps Almirall reliably keep pace with global health concerns and increasing medication needs.

Simplify and improve your business with the latest innovations

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Optimise customer experience with innovation

Learn how you can prepare your medtech, pharmaceutical, or life sciences business to face changing customer environments by exploring new digital technologies now.

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Use the Internet of Things to build better relationships with your customers

Find out how new Internet of Things (IoT) technology can help you deliver the intimacy and immediacy that consumers demand. Watch the video, and then download the IDC whitepaper for more information. 

Get the latest news and trends from experts

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Stephen Cloughley
SAP

The benefits of blockchain in life sciences

Learn about the future of blockchain in life sciences and the compelling use cases that leverage the distributed and secure nature of the technology.

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Joseph Miles
Global VP, Industry Business Development
SAP

Digitalization across health sciences

Learn how the long held beliefs are increasingly becoming outdated as organisations leverage digital technologies to disrupt traditional markets.

Communities and Events

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Join the SAP Community

Learn how SAP Community, the social network for SAP professionals, changes the way thousands of SAP users work every day.

Manage your life sciences business enterprise-wide

Explore our comprehensive solutions for all business processes across all industries to find the solutions you need to build a connected business.
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Human Resources

Simplify HR processes and engage your workforce to drive better business results, empower your workforce, and develop your talent.

Finance

Bring together financial processes with automated, real-time analytics, and translate them into forward-looking business insight across the entire organisation.

Analytics

Take advantage of in-depth data analysis, predictions, and processing of complex events, and combine data from a variety of sources into one, integrated platform.

Cloud and Data Platforms

Leverage business applications that use the latest technology advancements – including the SAP HANA platform, cloud, mobile, and more.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Deploy high-velocity, intelligent edge IoT applications using business and technology services.

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