Life sciences and healthcare
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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