Optimize your process results and comply with international laws and regulations
Unlock the true potential of SAP S/4HANA with it.lifesciences. We understand that there is no one-size fits all in the life sciences industry. With it.lifesciences, you can jump start your project, with more than 300 industry best practice processes already available and ready to adapt for your organization. These include processes to optimize R&D, compliant manufacturing, quality control, supply chain management, and more.
This page explains how we set up new implementations of SAP S/4HANA for life science and pharma companies. If your business already uses SAP, for example, ECC 6.0, you don’t have to set up a new implementation. We can upgrade your old system to SAP S/4HANA in a process known as validated system conversion. Learn about this on our SAP S/4HANA system conversion page.
it.lifesciences is a complete ERP solution based on industry specific best practices and a proven project methodology. It’s based on SAP S/4HANA, a leading platform used for all standard financial, commercial, quality, manufacturing, and logistical processes.
Our implementations are certified by SAP and add features designed specifically for pharma and life science businesses for purchasing, planning, and production, as well as for plant maintenance, sales, management, and quality control of the entire chain.
In our almost three decades of experience, we’ve developed a library of best practice procedures in Biotech, OtC, API, Medtech, CDMO, Blood Plasma, and Start and Scale-Ups. These can be leveraged and will jump start the project.
With the right methodology, all of your computer system validation and compliance processes can be significantly easier, unlocking space to grow.
Get a peek inside our process and see how we work. In this short video, you’ll learn which industry challenges are top of mind when we designed it.lifesciences.
Frans Nieuweboer, Director Life Sciences & Chemicals at NTT DATA Business Solutions, gives you an introduction to it.lifesciences.
A modern ERP should be able to unite data from all your critical systems in one place and be updated in real-time. It should allow you to track your quality and supply chain as extensively as desired, from raw materials to finished products. It should be user-friendly, can scale to support large volumes of data, and use machine learning to uncover trends faster than we can.
Our implementations of SAP S/4HANA enable all of these benefits. In addition to a next generation platform, our clients find it significantly easier to comply with increasingly complex rules and regulations, such as 21CFR Part 11 and Eudralex annex 11, while their processes are far less vulnerable to human error.
it.lifesciences is designed to unite all of your data in one place, connect to LIMS, eQMS, MES, support updates in real-time, and uncover trends automatically, with the power of machine learning. Features for each business function include:
SAP S/4HANA is the fourth iteration of SAP’s enterprise-level business suite, running on the new HANA database. It’s the first in a new generation of ERPs, built with AI and machine learning capability.
Imagine having a single source of truth for all of your critical data. No more duplicate databases, delays while data is transferred between platforms, or costly mistakes from a lack of end-to-end visibility. SAP S/4HANA solves these common challenges with the additional benefit of AI.
Processes can be easily automated, while trends and insights in huge data sets can be uncovered automatically. Thanks to its new in-memory database and simplified data model, on SAP S/4HANA, vast amounts of information are available in an analytics dashboard that’s as user-friendly as a consumer product.
The platform can support any number of IoT devices, allowing you to record data from the plant floor and logistics network automatically. With the ability to easily adopt new features and no limits to scale, SAP S/4HANA can be the final step in digitizing your operation.
This system is designed to be scalable and modular. It can be hosted on SAP’s cloud or other hyper-scaler environments, including AWS, Azure, as well as with us.
it.lifesciences combines industry specific enhancements, and uses a project methodology that combines CSV with ERP project management. Re-using our documentation set and enhancements leads to a predictable project, both in outcome and costs.
A greenfield implementation provides the opportunity to redesign all your outdated processes and simplify your workflows. The new system can operate in parallel to your current system, allowing each department time to learn and slowly transition across.
it.lifesciences evolves with every implementation. The latest additions are:
We built it.lifesciences to serve the ‘cure’ providers in the life science industry. Both start-ups and established businesses can benefit from our solution, including:
Our implementations of SAP can be hosted on any modern cloud-based environment, including SAP’s cloud, our own cloud, and other hyper-scaler environments such as AWS and Azure.
Frans Nieuweboer Director Life Sciences & Chemicals
Our project methodology is based on GAMP5, the pharma industry standard, as well as SAP’s own methodology, SAP Activate+. With many years of experience in life sciences, our specialists understand the complex nature of computer system validation, as well as the regulations your business operates with on a daily basis, such as Eudralex and 21 CFR Part 11. Our consultants have extensive experience in the highly regulated life science environment. Combined with our refined implementation process, this allows us to completely mitigate risk and keep budgets under control. We don’t just mean this figuratively, we back it up by providing a fixed cost as well as a fixed delivery schedule.
A full portfolio of services is available for all our clients: implementation consultancy, training, licenses, as well as functional and technical support. Implementations are crafted to solve your unique challenges, and they include only the software and hardware modules that make sense for your business. Our solutions are validated, future-proof, and risk-free.
Over our almost three decades working with SAP, we’ve helped more than 100 life sciences customers to modernize their ERP systems. Our work is on a global scale, with offices in more than 30 countries. But in addition to our ability to support large enterprises, we’re also the only SAP platinum partner to be focused on small to medium businesses in the life science industry.
The team of staff includes more than 200 industry specialists. Our experts aren’t merely knowledgeable about SAP, they have deep experience with Lab Information Management systems, MES, DMS, EQMS, and more. With successful projects in API, Biotech, OtC, Start-up, Blood Plasma, and Medical Devices, you’re in safe hands with us.
We’re NTT DATA Business Solutions, a platinum SAP partner who’s delivered more than 480 successful SAP S/4HANA projects across 30 countries. Our knowledge has been developed over more than 25 years consulting for life science and pharmaceutical businesses. Our implementation package is fully-qualified by SAP.
Our SAP S/4HANA implementations have been acknowledged externally with multiple awards. In early 2021, we won the SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SAP S/4HANA Movement. We’ve also earned multiple finalist positions in SAP’s Pinnacle Awards for the SAP S/4HANA Movement Partner of the Year.
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Learn how we can empower your life science organization in more ways, with SAP S/4HANA, Managed Cloud Services and Application Management, as well as supply chain software for track & trace, and innovative technologies.
Discover how we can convert your existing SAP ERP, whether it’s ECC 6.0 or earlier software, to S/4HANA with a validated system conversion (brownfield approach).
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