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SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management
It’s time for life sciences to optimise the visibility of clinical trials, from planning to production to patient.
Reimagining clinical supply chain planning and operations
Your organisation can optimise and automate the supply process for clinical trials with a clinical supply chain management system that increases visibility into the status of clinical supplies worldwide.
SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management integrates with your clinical trial management system (CTMS) and interactive response technology (IRT) to help you to meet the blinding and randomisation needs for clinical trials and facilitate demand forecasting, manufacturing, packaging, labelling and deliveries of clinical trial material.
Hybrid deployment with cloud and on-premise modules
Cloud-based functionalities to plan the study and demand of clinical supplies
Extensions for SAP S/4HANA for clinical study operations
Key benefits
Accelerate clinical trial supply planning
Plan supply requirements early, model multiple study scenarios and automatically recalculate demand based on actual enrolment and IRT data.
Reduce inventory waste and expiry risk
Optimise inventory levels with advanced forecasting, supply pooling, shelf-life management and relabeling capabilities to minimise waste and overproduction.
Improve global study execution
Manage complex study designs, treatment schedules, site networks and country-specific requirements in a single end-to-end solution.
Gain end-to-end supply chain visibility
Track medication kits from manufacturing through depots and clinical sites with full inventory transparency, parcel tracking and reconciliation capabilities.
Strengthen compliance and quality control
Support GxP-compliant processes with e-signature, documented approvals, audit trails, shelf-life controls, serialisation and regulatory validations.
Optimise collaboration across the clinical ecosystem
Connect study management, planning, manufacturing, logistics providers, Contract Manufacturing Organisations, IRT systems and SAP solutions through integrated workflows and data exchange.
Key features
Set-up of complex clinical studies
Maintain clinically relevant parameters
Define and handle complex study designs and benefit from the built-in support for various study types
Check the calculation statuses of studies on the study overview page
Integrate with any clinical trial management system or CTMS software
Planning and forecasting
Begin to plan demand on drug substance or drug product levels as soon as a use case emerges
Carry out deterministic calculations for demand planning
Simulate multiple planning scenarios based on projected or actual subject enrolment figures and visits
Intelligent manufacturing and packaging
Manage medication lists for open and blinded serialised trials and perform batch allocation and expiry date calculations
Provide information for internal packaging and external labelling
Help ensure efficient shelf-life management
Better stock visibility and efficient distribution
Enable visibility of stock beyond the depot level down to the specific site and kit ID level
Help ensure import compliance through picking, packing and repackaging based on medication IDs for clinical kits
Integrate third-party logistics by using specific interfaces (GS1 industry standard)
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