Proven and Stable IT Solutions for the Life Sciences Industry
Stay compliant and be ready for a new technological era with validated end-to-end visibility and traceability in life sciences.
Human Life Has to Be Supported – by Incorporating Powerful Solutions.
Life science is an industry that dedicates itself to the greatest good: human life. Day by day, employees of the life sciences industry work passionately on breakthrough medical products, do pharmaceutical research and conduct testing experiments that all have a common goal – to improve the lives of every human being. It is an industry we all profit from.
For safety reasons, disciplines like pharmaceuticals, medical technology or biotechnology have to abide by strict compliance rules. Working in these fields is increasingly difficult since these regulations often change and need to be quickly adjusted to new standards.
At the same time, life science is an expanding market in which the competition constantly grows. Validated, smart and effective processes are a necessity to stay in the race against business rivals.
With the help of innovative SAP solutions, companies in the life sciences industry can master these challenges. Fast data management technologies allow companies to stay up-to-date in regard of compliance rules and therefore enable high standards in product quality as well as patient safety.
Our Approach for the Life Science Industry
Data integrity, product quality, and patient safety are the pillars of our industry. With increasingly tighter rules and regulations and growing market pressure, compliance becomes challenging.
Our SAP & CSV/CSA certified team supports you with a risk-free and validated SAP S/4HANA move to our life sciences-specific SAP solutions. With extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of the industry, we take on a process-oriented approach to deliver a documented, proven, stable, and validated platform.
Our best practice, future-proof and integrated solutions let you gain the upper hand, while we keep validation costs at bay.
What Are Your Challenges in Life Sciences?
- Are you struggling to adhere to increasingly strict compliance regulations?
- Is your supply chain complex and hard to monitor, causing problems in formula- and batch management?
- Are unconnected, time-consuming production control processes holding you back?
- Do you lack the transparency necessary to ensure comprehensive quality management?
- Do you want to bring together different datasets from your systems and applications in one overview?
- Are you striving to gain more insight into your end-to-end chain?
- Are accurate data in real time necessary for your daily business?
- Is your current platform able to integrate new technology that is needed for the next generation of Pharma?
If so, you may need to rethink your processes. And that’s where we can help you.
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Life Sciences Sub-Industries We Specialize In
The life science industry encompasses several sub-industries like blood plasma derived medicines or biotec. Which one is yours? Click through and find out in which sectors we are specialized and able to support your IT infrastructure.
Our Preconfigured and Proven Industry Solution for Life Sciences
Discover our it.lifesciences template based on the latest release of SAP S/4HANA. It covers and improves standard business processes, complemented by industry specific best practices and functionalities taken from our 25 years of extensive experience in life sciences and pharmaceuticals. Our template and methodology are proven in different sectors like API, CMO, OTC, bio & medical technology.
We’ve developed a powerful validated implementation methodology that is in line with GAMP5 guidelines and is thoroughly documented throughout by our own CSV experts.
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Compliance with all legal requirements
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User requirements included
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Industry processes covered
Sanquin Plasma Products
A solution based on solid foundations, that is delivered with no significant issues and within the agreed time.
Duco Brouwer, Vice President Supply Chain Management, Sanquin Plasma Products
Validated SAP S/4HANA MOVE for Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals
Comply with challenging regulations and requirements. Gain real-time insight into your entire supply chain. Optimize your process results. Pave the way for fast, data-driven decision making. Discover what it means to become an intelligent enterprise in life sciences and pharmaceuticals with the strong digital core of SAP S/4HANA.
Our life sciences consultant Ruud Nieuweboer from NTT DATA Business Solutions Benelux tells you everything you need to know about our unique Validation Services for a move to SAP S/4HANA in life sciences and pharmaceuticals. He also explains how moving to this new platform with the help of our experts guarantees a risk free, validated, and smooth transition.
Benefits of SAP S/4HANA for Life Sciences
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End-to-End Traceability
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A single source of truth throughout your entire chain that ensures quality and traceability from raw material to finished product and is compliant to guidelines and regulations set by GMP, EudraLex, and the FDA.
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Full Supply Chain Visibility
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Enable quick and accurate decision making by gaining full transparent insight into your entire supply chain. From initial customer demands to the manufacturing capacity of your production facilities. The user-centered functionalities provide you with accurate and clear information overviews in a few clicks.
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Shop Floor Integration
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Integrate smart technology like IoT and sensors, and seamlessly connect your manufacturing processes with other business processes for a real-time 360°-view of your entire supply chain.
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Ensuring a Validated Platform
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CSV certified with thorough GxP knowledge: We work with a GAMP5 compliant implementation methodology that features proven risk mitigation and is documented throughout.
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Proven Industry Best Practices
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Integrate SAP add-on solutions – like SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Ariba – and best practices that have already proven themselves in your industry, and with which we have extensive experience.
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Future-Proof Solution
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Scale up whenever your business demands it. SAP S/4HANA integrates easily with industry specific and best of breed solutions. This flexibility lets you respond quickly to changing market conditions.
Validated Implementation of SAP S/4HANA at Bilthoven Biologicals
Bilthoven Biologicals (BBio) needed a state of the art solution that could both simplify their application landscape and improve their existing business processes.
With the validated implementation of SAP S/4HANA, BBio gained a fully transparent logistics chain that is fully compliant.
Strictly Regulated, yet Flexible
The dynamics within the pharmaceutical industry are at odds with strict regulations. Our industry-specific solutions enable customers to demonstrably comply with legislation, but also provide the necessary flexibility to respond quickly to continuously changing market conditions.
Frans Nieuweboer, Global Digital Director Life Sciences, NTT DATA Business Solutions AG
Become More Intelligent with SAP Track & Trace Solutions
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Serialization with SAP ATTP for Global Compliance
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Serialization is a complex subject, in which international laws and regulations, IT and logistics come together. SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals (ATTP) minimizes the costs of maintaining compliance and supports a secure supply chain.
This innovative serialization and track-and-trace solution helps pharmaceutical manufacturers validate products, integrate business processes, and communicate with regulatory bodies. In this way, the tracking software contributes to patient safety.
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Batch Management with SAP GBT for Fast Issue Solving
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How can you ascertain the origin, current location, and quality of products? SAP Global Batch Traceability (GBT) makes all movements and relevant features transparent, from raw material to packed product. SAP GBT enables an effective and efficient analysis of the complete genealogy.
The batch management system links data from different sources and brings it together in one system. Using a powerful and fast search engine, organizations have access to a single version of the truth.
Integration of SAP Global Batch Traceability at Sanquin
With SAP GBT, Dutch blood bank operator Sanquin now has the ability to integrate all the batch relevant data using internal and external sources, and get a direct overview of their supply chain from a logistics and quality perspective.
This continuous ‘situational awareness’ will ultimately protect their product, their brand, and most importantly their patients.
These Products and Solutions Make Your Daily Operations Even Smarter
Thrive with Our GxP Validated Managed Services and Managed Cloud
Focus on your daily operations and deliver high quality products and services, while we make sure your validated IT systems and internal processes run smooth and in continuous compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) guidelines.
Our Validated Managed Services will undoubtedly meet your high expectations by delivering an excellent application and unrivaled system performance.
We offer Validated Managed Services on our GxP validated private cloud environment, which is frequently audited by regulated companies. Together with our partners AWS and Azure, we also host Managed Services on a secure and stable public cloud that is GxP validated.
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Click for More Details about Validated Managed Cloud Services
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- Our Integrated Management System complies with GMP and FDA (21CFR pt. 11)
- Internal Control System verified according to international standards (ex: ISAE 3402)
- ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified information security management system
- Service management system matrix certification with ITIL confirmed (V3) – ISO/IEC 20000:2011
- Global SAP certified provider in cloud and hosting services
- High availability SLA and high focus on risk free Managed Services
- Extensive disaster recovery options
- Keeps company critical applications stable at all times
- Meets 21CFR and EudraLex requirements
- Possibility to host your solution in a public or private cloud, which makes hyper scaling an option
- Latest SAP S/4HANA innovations are available in the cloud
Life Sciences Expert Blog
Benelux blog
Operationalizing Your GxP Data Lake: A Solid Foundation for Compliance in a Pharma 4.0 Production Environment
Danny Groothuis | Oct 20, 2021
Benelux blog
Serialization Supply Chain Challenges Series: Leverage the Complexity of Serialization in Your Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Processes
Robert Klauss | Jul 23, 2021
Benelux blog
Serialization Supply Chain Challenges Series: Why Supply Chain Processes in Pharmaceuticals Become Increasingly Complex
Robert Klauss | May 21, 2021
Benelux blog
Enhance the Quality of Your Drug Products with an Internal Cold Chain Solution
Edgar Fischer | May 12, 2021
Benelux blog
Producing a Covid-19 Cure: Time is of The Essence, Optimizing Business Processes Helps
Frans Nieuweboer | Oct 16, 2020
Benelux blog
From ordering to strategic sourcing: a valuable procurement upgrade
Frans Nieuweboer | Jul 16, 2018
Trust Our Life Sciences Expertise
We have been around for more than 25 years, working side by side with companies in life sciences and pharmaceuticals to improve their business processes, while continuously maintaining end-to-end compliance with the increasingly strict rules and regulations. To cater to your industry specific needs, we’ve developed a templated SAP industry it.lifesciences solution that can be up and running in accordance with GxP in a short period of time and makes use of proven accelerators.
We are an experienced SAP recognized partner, highly skilled and experienced in validated software implementations, Validated Managed Services, and Validated Managed Cloud. Whatever you need, we deliver risk-free, stable, and proven solutions that make your company thrive and get you ready for this technological era. Get to know us.
Our Expertise in Numbers
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Industry Experts
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Life science and pharma is one of our strategic global growth industries. Our SAP life science and pharma solutions create value and support our customers’ transformation into intelligent enterprises. With innovative solutions and validated services, we enable our customers to stay innovative in a highly regulated industry.
Norbert Rotter, CEO NTT DATA Business Solutions
How Companies Benefit from Our Life Sciences Experience
Aché Success Case – SAP HANA
Aché Laboratórios Farmacêuticos S.A. is a 100% Brazilian company, with 50 years of experience in the market. It is one of the largest demand generation and sales forces in the pharmaceutical sector in Brazil, as well as exporting to 20 countries in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Japan.
Werner & Mertz GmbH – NTT DATA Business Solutions Application Management Service as Performance Guarantee
The manufacturer benefits from the scalable NTT DATA Business Solutions Application Management Service (AMS) and thus makes the IT processes efficient. Werner & Mertz can now fully concentrate on day-to-day business and rely on NTT DATA Business Solutions’ 24/7 on-call service.
Detailed Insights of Our Experts into Life Sciences
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Expert Paper
SAP Whitepaper "The Intelligent Enterprise for the Life Science Industry"
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Speak to Us Today
Are you searching for answers or would you like to receive more information on life science industry? Do you want more detailed advice from our expert or wish to book one of our life science workshops?
Just contact us – we will be glad to help you
Frans Nieuweboer
Director Life Sciences & Chemicals BNL, Global Digital Director Life Sciences, NTT DATA Business Solutions AG