Get an outside perspective on how SAP can help you solve business challenges specific to life sciences companies. Analyst reports illustrate how SAP business management software can help you accelerate revenue across all channels and achieve supply and demand balance.
WHITE PAPERS:
Complying with U.S. FDA Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 11 for the Life Sciences Industry
Complying with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements and international good manufacturing practice guidelines takes careful planning and documentation. SAP ERP enables automated compliance through archiving background information, electronic records, and signatures.
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Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation: Enterprise Services Architecture for Enterprise Resource Planning
To overcome inflexible, unwieldy IT systems, life sciences companies are rethinking their enterprise architectures. In this paper we introduce business strategies and issues related to enterprise resource planning (ERP), financial management, operations management, and human capital management (HCM) that drive the consideration of enterprise service-oriented architecture.
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Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning: Lessons Learned from the Front
This white paper discusses ERP implementations: what has been done well, what has yet to be done well, best practices from implementations, and the governance of successful implementations.
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Reverse Auction Best Practices: Practical Approaches to Ensure Successful Electronic Reverse Auction Events
Are you reaping all the benefits possible from reverse auctions? If your organizations goal is to organize fair and open competition among your supply base, reverse auctions may be the tool you need to bring transparency to the sourcing process.
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The Drive for Growth and Compliance in Life Sciences
In this highly regulated industry, life sciences companies of your size need an automated, comprehensive solution to help you track supplies in and inventory out as well as the thousands of events within this process.
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The Impact of Technology on Cost in Business Process Outsourcing
Are you considering a business process outsourcing (BPO) model? By considering the technology involved in a BPO model, you can see how it lowers your costs by creating economies of scale, supporting sustainable process optimization, and maximizing your current workforce.
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Learn why you can expect to see meaningful return on your investment (ROI) in SAP software. ROI studies provide the facts from real-world SAP implementations.
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION STUDIES:
Applied Biosystems
In its quest to achieve a single version of the truth for trade- and compliance-related information, Applied Biosystems, a leading supplier of life sciences research solutions, implemented SAP global trade services software in a mere five months, and has seen its international trade rating soar from 55% to 90%.
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Gen-Probe Incorporated
Gen-Probe Incorporated, a global leader in nucleic acid tests used to diagnose disease and screen donated human blood, implemented SAP Business Suite to prepare for growth. The company projects benefits of US$13.5M over five years.
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ROI REVIEWS:
Cardinal Health
Cardinal Health, a pharmaceutical and medical supplies distributor in the United States, implemented SAP CRM in its medical products and services division. The company is looking at US$14.9M in savings from the customer service center alone.
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Schering do Brasil
Its investment in SAP CRM enabled Schering, a research-based pharmaceutical company, to unify data and processes across sales and service departments. The effort led to increased efficiency and productivity as well as increased sales – for a sales contribution of €3.2 million through 2009.
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