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LeverX helped develop a solution to automate and improve the clinical supplies process and gain better visibility into the status of clinical supplies worldwide.
Customer
Multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions — Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics.
Challenge
Our customer lacked transparency into clinical supplies that significantly impacted trial agility. In addition, the company required more accurate planning and inventory management.
Solution
LeverX developed the Intelligent Clinical Supply Management (ICSM) solution to deal with these and other issues. This solution helps life sciences companies gain end-to-end visibility of clinical supplies, from planning and production to patient delivery.
Products and Services
Project Scope
The ICSM solution includes four modules: Study Master, Planning & Forecasting, Manufacturing, and Distribution.
The LeverX team was involved in developing the following functionalities:
Manufacturing (S/4HANA add-on)
- Treatment-specific blinding and clinical serialization
- Country specific shelf-life management and extension functionality
- System supported batch allocation and expiry date calculation
- Master Data Monitor to check readiness for packaging
- ICSM enhancements for in-house GS1 compliant labeling
- Integration with CMO
Planning & Forecasting (Cloud-based functionality)
- Rough demand forecasting and deterministic demand planning
- Switching/drop off functions
- Manual adaptation, simulations and comparison of scenarios
- Thresholds, alerts and automatic replanning
- Supply pooling across studies
- Integration with IRT and SAP supply planning tools
Distribution (S/4HANA add-on)
- Distribution between depots and to sites with site stock visibility
- Dispensing info, kit destruction tracking, and returns management
- Expiry lead time validation
- Cross-study pooling (limited)
- Cold chain management
- GS1 standards support
- Integration with 3PL and IRT
Solution Benefits
SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management helps gain transparency and insights into the clinical supplies process from source to site. Other benefits include the following:
- Reducing cycle times for the clinical trial supply chain
- Accurate planning to reduce inventory excesses
- Combining multiple clinical supply models in one system
- Increasing cooperation between the parties, from suppliers and logistics providers to life sciences companies and clinical sites
- Simplifying and automating processes and eliminating manual processes
- Lowering total cost of ownership
Technology Stack
- NODE.JS
- SAP CAP FRAMEWORK
- SAP BTP
- SAP EVENT MESH
- HANA DATABASE
- FIORI ELEMENTS
- SAPUI5
- JAVASCRIPT
TOP Systems Integration Company
Results
With SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management, our customer could achieve the following results:
- Reducing implementation costs by up to 50%
- Decreasing lead time by 10%-15%
- Reducing running costs by 30%-40%
- Reducing inventory overages by 30%-40%
- Shortening the clinical trial cycles by up to 10%