SAP ATTP for Pharmaceuticals

SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals (SAP ATTP) is an innovative serial number management solution built for pharmaceutical companies to label and track products with serial numbers. It minimizes the costs of maintaining compliance and supports a secure supply chain.

Internationally governments are increasingly enacting legislation to combat the falsification of drugs. Compliance with these complex legislative systems requires efficient serialization of drugs with subsequent reporting to governmental and institutional databases, and a secure data flow with supply chain partners.

To achieve compliance, pharmaceutical companies must maintain a well managed serialization repository, which can handle a high data volume, integrate with Master Data and Business Transactions and provide internationally compliant reporting.

NTT DATA Business Solutions provides the SAP Advanced Track and Trace solution for Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences organizations globally, making serialization secure.

Pharmaceutical companies manufacturing prescriptive drugs face multiple consistent challenges which SAP ATTP helps handle efficiently:

• Staying compliant in serialization
• Efficiently managing drug serialization numbers
• Integrating serialization into logistics and warehouse processes and systems
• Exchanging serialization data with business partners
• Robustly manage increasing data volumes as a result of serialization

Implementation of SAP ATTP can be undertaken in a cost-effective manner with tailored training resources. It is far more efficient than a non-SAP (cloud) product, with intuitive user features.

SAP ATTP shares several common functionalities with SAP ERP, such as authorization management. SAP ATTP and SAP ERP also share a native integration concept. Master data and transactional data are integrated with out-of-the-box functionality. This is not possible with non-SAP products, which require custom interface development.

SAP proactively monitors global serialization requirements and is in contact with regulatory bodies to ensure that the solution is adapted in time to meet future deadlines. These SAP ATTP feature packs contain product improvements and new regulatory updates.

In addition to the native integration with the SAP ERP system, SAP also provides a framework to integrate complex operational warehouse processes for drug manufacturers. NTT DATA Business Solutions has developed an accelerator to incorporate serialization processes into logistical processes.

With NTT DATA Business Solutions’ SAP ATTP integration, customers create robust serialization systems which ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and enhance patient safety.

SAP ATTP can work as a standalone or as an extension to SAP ERP. Whether it concerns the exchange of master or transactional data, SAP ATTP makes it possible. Special country packs simplify communication with government agencies. This means you do not have to worry about ever-changing legislation and regulations.

• Supporting serialization strategy
• Reporting events
• Integration with ERP, warehouse management systems, and packaging lines
• Tracking and tracing serial numbers
• Tracing batches
• Consulting reports
• Communicating with external partners and regulatory bodies

• Lower cost for compliance: With SAP ATTP, your business is prepared for both current and future serialization requirements such as the obligation to report by country.
• Optimal integration: Easily integrate master and transactional data in existing processes for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and warehousing.
• Large storage capacity: Secure large data volumes consisting of objects, events, and transactions for further analysis.
• More efficient supply chain: Provide insight into movements in the supply chain, down to the level of a single package.
• Scalability: Process large quantities of serialization data and always be prepared for new legislation and regulations.
• Communication: Share data with Market Authorization Holders and Contract Manufacturing Organizations via the SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences (SAP ICH).