SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management
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 meet the blinding and randomization needs for clinical trials and facilitate demand forecasting, manufacturing, packaging, labelling, and shipments of clinical trial material.
Key Benefits
Reduce cycle time and improve efficiency
Benefit from simplified and automated clinical trial supply chain processes, which help reduce complexity to lower costs.
Increase transparency
Achieve optimal site level visibility and improve clinical planning by taking actual enrollment and dispensing into account for clinical supplies replenishment.
Optimise collaboration
Streamline supply management processes by integrating all clinical supplies stakeholders, including suppliers, manufacturers, 3PLs, and clinical sites.
Key features of the clinical trial supply management solution from SAP
Setup 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 level as soon as a use case emerges
- Carry out deterministic calculations for demand planning
- Simulate multiple planning scenarios based on projected or actual subject enrollment figures and visits
Intelligent manufacturing and packaging
- Manage medication lists for open and blinded serialised trials and perform batch allocation and expiry date calculation
- 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)
Setup 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 level as soon as a use case emerges
- Carry out deterministic calculations for demand planning
- Simulate multiple planning scenarios based on projected or actual subject enrollment figures and visits
Intelligent manufacturing and packaging
- Manage medication lists for open and blinded serialised trials and perform batch allocation and expiry date calculation
- 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)
Build a business case
Optimise clinical trial processes
Discover how the SAP ecosystem contributed to a new solution that efficiently manages the clinical trial supply management process.
The future of clinical supply management
See how clinical trial software from SAP help automate clinical supply management processes for greater efficiency, speed, and accuracy.
Navigating the clinical trial supply chain
Hear SAP, Roche, and Tenthpin share the challenges of clinical trial supply chains today and the future of clinical supply chains.
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Technical Information
This product is deployed in the cloud and on premise, and system and software requirements vary by specific customer scenarios.
Installation and setup
Follow the setup instructions so you can start running SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management quickly and confidently.
Configuration
Optimise configuration of SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management with our comprehensive configuration guide.
Integration
Find out how you can seamlessly integrate SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management with your existing IT landscape.
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