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Proven and Stable IT Solution for the Life Science and Pharmaceutical

Stay compliant and be ready for a new technological era with validated end-to-end visibility and traceability in life sciences.

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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 and Pharmaceuticals?

  • 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?
  • Is accurate real-time data necessary for your daily business?
  • Is your current platform able to integrate new technology that is needed for Pharma 4.0?

If so, you may need to rethink your processes. And that’s where we can help you.

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Life Science and Pharmaceutical Sub-Industries We Specialize In

The life science industry encompasses several sub-industries like blood plasma derived medicines or biotech. Which one is yours? Click through and find out in which sectors we are specialized and able to support your IT infrastructure.

Blood Plasma Derived Medicines

Our vast experience in the blood plasma industry led to the development of a set of plasma specific best practices. We combine proven SAP technology with our industry specific solutions. The consultants of our dedicated plasma team are familiar with the complex business processes and know how to work in strict GMP and validated environments.

it.lifesciences for plasma is a single source of truth for blood plasma donation traceability.

Medical Technology

Medical technology companies need to focus more than ever on delivering faster and cheaper products that enhance patient health. Thanks to our experience with regulations, audit trail management, R&D, and UDI, we can help you focus on your core business and your customers. With our industry solution, you spend less time and money on compliance.

Focus on your core business by using our IT solutions for medical technology.

Biotech

Complying to regulations, managing high R&D costs while only a few products successfully reach the market, and keeping up with the market pace. These are just a few challenges biotech faces. Our extensive experience in optimizing GMP and FDA compliant business processes in validated environments helps you get ready for Pharma 4.0 and work more cost and productivity efficient.

Optimize GMP and FDA compliant business processes together with itelligence and become more efficient.

Cosmetics

Like the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, legal regulations in the cosmetics industry are incredibly stringent – but they are also unique to the sector. With many years of experience in the industry and an IT solution tailored to its specific requirements, we help you overcome the increasing challenges of the digital age – from in-process product testing and sample management to maintaining a full audit trail.

Overcome the challenges of the digital age with our validated industry solution for cosmetics.

API Processing

Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) are vital to any drug. They are subject to rigorous rules and regulations to ensure APIs are safe, of high quality, and deliver a high efficacy. Our dedicated team knows the challenges in production planning, EH&S, REACH, and GxP and will help you streamline your business processes.

Over The Counter

Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and products are subject to stringent rules and regulations, but also compete under the market pressure of a retail environment. Our experience in GxP and FMCG environments, combined with our validated IT solutions, provide you with a future-proof and stable system. Stay compliant with any rules and regulations while becoming more cost efficient in your daily operations.

Stay compliant to any rules and regulations thank so our validated IT solution and our expertise.
Discover our it.lifesciences template based on the latest release of SAP S/4HANA.

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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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

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Validated SAP S/4HANA Move for Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals
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Move to SAP S/4HANA and Be an Intelligent Enterprise

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

End-to-End Traceability

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.

Full Supply Chain Visibility

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.

Shop Floor Integration

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.

Ensuring a Validated Platform

CSV certified with thorough GxP knowledge: We work with a GAMP5 compliant implementation methodology that features proven risk mitigation and is documented throughout.

Proven Industry Best Practices

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.

Future-Proof Solution

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.

Customer video Bilthoven Biologicals (BBIO) & itelligence
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Validated Implementation of SAP ERP 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 ERP, BBio gained a fully transparent logistics chain that is fully compliant.

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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

Serialization with SAP ATTP for Global Compliance

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.

Be compliant and innovative in life sciences with our serialization and track-and-trace solution.

Batch Management with SAP GBT for Fast Issue Solving

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.

SAP Global Batch Traceability (GBT) makes all movements and relevant features transparent.
Complex Traceability Made Easy @Sanquin Plasma
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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.

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SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is a real-time enterprise resource management suite for digital business. Deployable in the cloud or on premise is built on our advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalized, consumer-grade user experience with SAP Fiori.

Benefit from Managed Cloud Services from itelligence and make your operation more cost-effective.

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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  • 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

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Woman in Laboratory
Life Sciences – How a Brownfield Conversion to SAP S/4HANA Works

Ruud Nieuweboer
Jun 02, 2022

Man facing a black wall with three arrows pointing in different directions.
Three Ways to Move to SAP S/4HANA: Greenfield, Brownfield & Hybrid

Ruud Nieuweboer
Feb 15, 2022

Single cubes forming the word ‘change’.
Why SAP S/4HANA is Being Adopted by Life Science Industry Leaders

Ruud Nieuweboer
Feb 15, 2022

Business Analytics
Operationalizing Your GxP Data Lake: A Solid Foundation for Compliance in a Pharma 4.0 Production Environment

Danny Groothuis
Nov 03, 2021

Hand using tablet in life sciences lab
What’s Next? – Trends and Innovations in the Life Sciences Industry

Frans Nieuweboer
Oct 27, 2021

Injection with flu vaccine.
How SAP Software Ensures a Shorter Time-to-Market of COVID-19 Vaccines

NTT DATA Business Solutions
Aug 17, 2021

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Trust Our Life Science 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.
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Our Expertise in Numbers

200+
Industry Experts
70+
Projects
25+
Years

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 Science Experience

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Basilea Pharmaceutica International

Basilea Pharmaceutical successfully navigates SAP ERP to S/4HANA migration, overcoming challenges like tight deadlines & compliance, with NTT DATA Business Solution's efficient Conversion Factory, ensuring future-readiness & innovation access.
Vetter Pharma-Fertigung

With the integration of Machine Learning into the purchasing process, Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG was able to increase data quality as well as process efficiency enormously.
Fertin Pharma chose SAP standard
Fertin Pharma Choosing SAP Standard to Gain Extraordinary Benefits

Fertin Pharma’s former ERP platform did not support the company’s business strategy or growth. Together with NTT DATA Business Solutions, Fertin Pharma made an active and bold decision to go for a standard SAP S/4HANA solution as one of the first companies in Denmark.
Sanctuary

How deploying SAP Datasphere (The new name for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud) across Sanctuary unified data across sites in England and Wales, allowing real time insights on the impact of COVID-19 to inform the direct response to protect residents and frontline workers.
Vetter Pharma-Fertigung

After successfully implementing SAP SucessFactors in a core hybrid approach, NTT DATA Business Solutions managed to introduce it.people document manager at Vetter in just a few months.
Royal Herkel

To gain more insight into future demands and in order to become more flexible, Royal Herkel implemented SAP S/4HANA in 2019. As a result, the company saw the turnover of their products grow by more than twenty percent in 2020.

Speak with Us Today

Are you searching for answers or would you like to receive more information on the 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

Frans Nieuweboer

Senior Director Global Life Sciences Industry & Benelux Business Unit Life Sciences

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