Life sciences and healthcare

Accelerate life-saving therapies with life science solutions that bring medications to market faster and improve patient outcomes.
Healthcare professional in a clinical setting

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 Business Suite 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.

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.

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.

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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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Centralized batch releases

Enable seamless, intelligent batch release processes across the enterprise to:

  • Reduce batch errors and compliance costs with automated quality checks.

  • Minimize recall risk with standardized, audit-ready workflows.

  • Accelerate release decision to optimize manufacturing capacity through data evaluation and faster cycle times.

  • Anticipate issues and automate release checks using predictive analytics.

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Intelligent clinical supply chain management

Improve clinical supply reliability to avoid waste and stockouts using IRT resupply, kit visibility, and real-time returns oversight.

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Resilient, compliant business network

Connect partners through digital workflows, business rules, and predictive insights.

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Product lifecycle management

Accelerate pharma product development, speed up time to value, and reduce cost by connecting activities across your supply chain.

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p36 GmbH UDI Platform

Accelerate Unique Device Identification (UDI) readiness with automated updates, unified workflows, and seamless ERP connectivity.

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Tricentis Vera

Accelerate compliant releases and connect regulated testing and asset lifecycle management for end-to-end traceability.

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Loftware Cloud

Reduce errors, boost agility, and drive resiliency with deployable, certified labeling.

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Global serialization and trusted compliance

Use a secure collaboration hub that unifies partners and serialization data flows to:

  • Improve quality assurance with secure, compliant data management.

  • Strengthen regulatory readiness with a centralized data repository.

  • Improve partner alignment with standardized data sharing.

  • Reduce onboarding time with simplified partner connectivity.

  • Boost global competitiveness with robust traceability systems.

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Warehouse management

Speed up obtaining clinical trial supplies by coordinating storage, picking, and shipping through the entire value chain.

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Integrated business planning

Streamline planning and improve supplier and CMO collaboration with a single platform for forecasts and purchase orders.

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Transportation management

Protect cold-chain delivery windows by optimizing routes and loads with real-time visibility.

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SAP Advanced Data Migration and Management by Syniti

Cut cost and reduce risk with automated migration, project dashboards, and strong data validation capabilities.

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Fusion Cold Chain Management Solution

Improve supply chain efficiency to track and monitor temperature-sensitive materials across the supply chain.

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Spherity Caro credentialing service

Safeguard biologics across the cold chain with continuous monitoring, alerts, and audit-ready compliance.

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Sourcing with AI and automation

Facilitate information-sharing and spend visibility to:

  • Streamline supply chains and cut costs by improving supplier visibility.

  • Negotiate better pricing with comprehensive event support.

  • Speed up decision-making through AI-driven supplier recommendations.

  • Improve negotiation outcomes with dynamic, data-driven supplier insights.

  • Add alternate suppliers quickly with guided events and discovery tools.

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Procure-to-pay

Strengthen care delivery and trial readiness by coordinating purchasing, materials flow, and goods movements in a single system.

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Supplier lifecycle and performance management

Enhance supplier performance with centralized oversight to manage supplier risk, sustainability goals, and performance metrics.

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External workforce and services management

Track and manage external labor through integrated, global services procurement platform.

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Icertis Contract Intelligence for SAP Ariba

Serve patients faster by unifying contract workflows to improve efficiency, compliance, and insight.

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EcoVadis Business Sustainability Assessments, ESG Ratings, and Carbon Scorecards

Measure environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk by rating suppliers with evidence-based scorecards and benchmark performance.

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Pangaea Digital Thread for Life Sciences

Reduce handoffs and errors with a digital thread that unifies product and process data across the manufacturing lifecycle.

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Standardized health data exchange with HL7® FHIR®

Design, implement, and run apps relying on health-related data to:

  • Meet business and local requirements using customizable FHIR resources.

  • Unlock patient insights for research using secure, scalable FHIR data.

  • Cut integration costs with reusable FHIR packages and open APIs.

  • Personalize care pathways with extensible FHIR resources and rules.

  • Accelerate app delivery using cloud FHIR storage, APIs, and services.

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Generative AI

Strengthen clinician decisions and reduce manual effort using a governed, healthcare-ready generative AI platform.

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Trusted sovereign cloud for regulated markets

Safeguard R&D, clinical, and manufacturing operations with embedded GxP frameworks and electronic signature support.

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Avelios Hospital Information System

Strengthen patient care and ease clinician workload using intuitive workflows, scalable interoperability, and structured data entry.

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Common Management Solutions ECH: Electronic Patient Record

Improve patient outcomes and detect deterioration earlier with real-time visibility, evidence-based pathways, and mobile care information.

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VRTCL Medical Suite

Improve staff well-being and cut administrative burden with unified operations, accurate data, and customizable privacy rules.

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Orchestrated cell and gene therapies

Plan, track, and deliver patient-specific therapies to:

  • Orchestrate end-to-end therapy flow with coordinated clinical and logistics tasks.

  • Synchronize sites, labs, and CMOs to reduce handoffs through shared process steps.

  • Standardize modality steps to scale using configurable orchestration.

  • Automatically trigger logistics at the right time to protect viability.

  • Prevent errors and ensure chain of identity and custody errors with linked records.

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Core commerce

Reduce manual effort with automated, accurate order management enabled by real-time inventory visibility.

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Field service

Lower costs and optimize schedules, routes, and parts through intelligent workforce planning and proactive equipment maintenance.

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Customer data management

Protect sensitive patient data and strengthen trust with integrated CIAM controls that ensure GDPR and HIPAA compliance.

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TeamViewer Frontline Augmented Reality

Digitize industrial processes and workflows for logistics picking, assembly, quality assurance, maintenance, and field service.

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Core HR and payroll

Mitigate burnout and stay compliant with an integrated HR system that helps you:

  • Reduce HR workload by automating repetitive administrative tasks.

  • Ease schedule pressure by balancing caseloads with smart planning.

  • Streamline credentialing through automated license verification.

  • Reduce legal and reporting risk via automated HIPAA compliance training.

  • Stay compliant with automatic legal and regulatory updates.

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Recruiting management

Improve hiring efficiency and fill specialized roles by automating screening and coordinating sourcing and applicant tracking.

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Sales performance management

Maximize sales performance with effective sales planning, automated processes, and impactful incentive compensation management.

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Learning management

Elevate employee skills with tailored, compliant learning programs powered by interactive and career-linked training experiences.

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Sodales for Enterprise Health, Safety, and Employee Relations

Keep pace with regulations and improve safety using easy configuration, connected reporting, and secure, HIPAA-aligned data controls.

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Success Solutions Shift Planning for SAP SuccessFactors

Improve care coverage with real-time shift updates, integrated absence data, and seamless scheduling for clinical teams.

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DXC Technology Services Workforce Suite for Healthcare

Improve retention and reduce labor costs through competency planning, wellness resources, and strategic skill development.

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SAP Workforce Forecasting and Scheduling by Workforce Software

Predict staffing needs and budgets and meet compliance standards by tailoring schedules across care sites.

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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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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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Frequently asked questions

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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