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Life Sciences

Improve patient outcomes, safety, and quality of care by collaborating across the digital health sciences network.

Explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life science

Life sciences organizations need tools to adapt and be resilient. Learn how SAP can help your employees and customers get resources to respond quickly and work toward recovery.

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

The scaled deployment of our personalized patient solutions helps create more flexible, agile, and transparent supply and logistic networks that can address challenging consumer demands.

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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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 

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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 Benchmarking

89 %

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

PwC

Solve your specific life sciences needs

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.

Achieve business value with Intelligent ERP

Learn how life sciences companies are transforming into event-driven businesses with SAP S/4HANA and intelligent technologies.

Create a winning strategy for Industry 4.0

Explore SAP’s strategy for Industry 4.0 and how you can leverage Industry 4.0 to turn challenges into opportunities, connect with customers, and integrate partners.

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 optimize inventory operations to meet future demand profitability

SAP Integrated Business Planning

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SAP Integrated Business Planning

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

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SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals

SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals

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SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals

Comply with drug serialization and reporting requirements – and fight counterfeiting and illicit trade – with SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals. This track and trace software integrates serialization with your processes and provides country-ready reporting packages.

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.

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SAP Model Company service

Become a digital leader with a prepackaged 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?

Realize 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.

Simplify and improve your business with the latest innovations

Optimize 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.

Get the latest news and trends from experts

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Mandar Paralkar
Head of Life Science Industry
SAP

IT tools leading life sciences through COVID-19

Discover how SAP is helping customers manage supply chain implications and implement the best measures throughout this pandemic.

Joseph Miles
Joseph Miles
Global VP, Industry Business Development
SAP

Digitalization across health sciences

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

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Joseph Miles
Global Vice President, Healthcare Business Development
SAP

Respond, recover, and reimagine during COVID-19

Find out how SAP is enabling organizations to respond to the COVID-19 crisis with strategies for improving, inspiring, and leading during this challenging time.

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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.

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 organization.

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.

Database and Data Management

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

Application Development and Integration

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

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