The pharmaceutical industry is evolving at a lightning pace. It’s also dealing with increasingly strict regulations that are calling for more transparent working methods.
More businesses are turning to specialist digital technology that delivers highly tuned efficiencies and improvements capable of meeting the demands of an increasingly volatile environment.
Operating in a complex regulatory environment with shortened patent protection and the ever-increasing pressure on product safety, cost, price and margins, is challenging.
Despite being tech-savvy, the options to build and expand digital capabilities within the industry ecosystem are limited by current IT systems.
Many businesses within the pharmaceutical industry are struggling with:
In order to overcome the growing industry challenges, you need fast results from trusted problem solvers and solution providers who can help you to stay abreast with the current trends.
You likely also care about how to best use technology to achieve your desired outcomes, and therefore require solutions that will enable you to drive effective digitisation and deliver more efficient and compliant processes. This will further allow you to answer the call for more transparency and agility in addressing customer needs.
Brian Everett says: Significant value will be created through improved supply chains, greater agility & enhanced customer experience.
Many pharmaceutical and life sciences companies started their production processes automation long before “smart factory” was an established term. Yet, there is considerable potential for further optimisation, especially from a financial perspective, through the end-to-end integration of the SAP system. Quality checks and integrated batch management are key components.
A lot of production steps require a digital signature. With some instances this is obligatory, and the guidelines provide some leeway in other areas. Knowing and capitalising on this often leads to cost savings. This is the type of expertise that NTT DATA Business Solutions specialists have gained over many years through countless projects.
Big fraud cases around the globe have seen legislators step in and take action. With pharmaceutical product serialization, you need to go far beyond considering just the outer packaging. The inner packaging also needs unique identifiers, such as serial numbers.
When the packaging includes blister packs, costs can increase significantly. That’s because adding any data to this kind of packaging can require laser technology, which is far more expensive than standard labelling.
What are the mandatory processes? Where can you compromise? Being able to answer these questions can save you a lot of money.
Future focused companies are constantly developing new products with the right properties combined with the best possible cost structures. Enterprises can achieve their goals with less risk and greater cost efficiencies thanks to digitization and close collaboration with their business partners during the early development process.
However, the research and development must first be closely integrated into the existing IT landscape to ensure processes run smoothly.
Pharmaceutical companies must prove that every drug produced and shipped reaches the end pharmacy customer in its original condition. You must ensure traceability in batch management--from production to delivery--and guarantee that all products remain within the correct temperature range.
This is where the Internet of Things shines. Combined with temperature sensors and labelling, the IoT enables the product to be tracked throughout its lifecycle and be tested in real time. With SAP GBT, NTT DATA Business Solutions enables an effective and efficient analysis of complex chains. The batch management system links data from different sources and brings them together in one system.
Pharmaceutical companies must validate their IT systems according to guidelines set out by the EU and the FDA. Unfortunately, the majority of decision makers are unsure which systems this applies to, and to what extent. This uncertainty can result in unnecessary costs.
NTT DATA Business Solutions has developed a cost-and risk-optimised project approach that can lead to financial savings of up to 40 percent.
Pharmaceutical industry serialization, international regulations and complex logistics, all drive the need for superior IT knowledge and solutions. ATTP (Advanced Track & Trace for Pharmaceuticals) fulfills your Serialization requirements. This innovative serialization and unit-tracking tool ensures medicine-producing companies can validate their products, integrate their business processes and collaborate with regulators and business partners.
The SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals application supports effective compliance with global pharmaceutical serialization needs. Life Sciences companies can help ensure patient safety with this solution.
The pharmaceutical industry is evolving rapidly. You’re being bombarded with all kinds of business priorities which lead to confusion about the right approach for you in your S/4HANA journey.
Efficiency improvements are high on the list in a competitive market where tightening regulations are resulting in a call for more transparency and agility in addressing your customer’s needs. How do you handle these complexities?
Our it.lifesciences template covers more than 300 processes within the entire value chain. We ensure risk-free delivery using the implementation approach combined with SAP Activate and GAMP5.
itelligence knows the processes of pharmaceutical companies and, as an SAP specialist, can quickly implement best practices in our sector, so that we meet requirements of regulators likes of FDA requirements
Bilthoven Biologicals (BBIO) was looking for a state-of-the-art solution to simply their application landscape. They wanted to reduce the number of applications whilst improving support for their existing business processes.
After engaging NTT DATA Business Solutions, BBIO has a fully transparent logistics chain thanks to our implementation of SAP S/4HANA.
SAP Global Batch Traceability enables Sanquin to analyse it's batch-genealogies in a fast and accurate way.
itelligence and Sanquin, supplier of blood reserves as well as pharmaceutical products, have integrated separate divisions within SAP ECC for increased efficiency.
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Choose it.lifesciences to optimise your process results and comply with international laws and regulations. it.lifesciences is based on SAP software and flawlessly handles all standard financial, commercial and logistic processes.
iComply with regulations in a cost-effective way thanks to it.lifescience. It combines security with enhanced functionality for all your pharma processes.
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NTT DATA Business Solutions is the System Integrator for companies operating in the pharma and life sciences industry. We work at the intersection of human creativity and cutting-edge digital technology. We are a top 10 services provider globally and experts at providing the best results from our preconfigured, template-based SAP solutions for the Pharma and Life Sciences industry.
NTT DATA Business Solutions can prepare your digital future, regardless of which area of the process industry you operate in. Our industry-specific integrated IT solutions and digital strategy innovation for pharmaceutical and chemical companies support each and every step in your value chain. Your processes will be transparent, compliant, and cost-effective.
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