Solution Development for Leveraging the Power of SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform

LeverX Group assisted with solution development to automate and improve the clinical supplies process and gain better visibility into the status of clinical supplies worldwide.

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LeverX Group assisted with solution development 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 was missing transparency into clinical supplies that significantly impacted trial agility. In addition, the company required more accurate planning and inventory management.

SOLUTION

LeverX Group developed the Intelligent Clinical Supply Management (ICSM) solution to deal with these and other issues. It helps life sciences companies gain end-to-end visibility of clinical supplies, from planning to production to patient.

Implementation of an automated system that would allow coordinating budget expenditures.

Development of a new document form in the SAP FI module to reconcile expenses from the budget;
Setting up roles for individuals involved in the process of budget expenditures approval (Initiator, Coordinator, Administrator, Accounting, etc.);
Elaboration of the route for RFA documents approval (requests for approval of expenses);
Implementation of transactions, including creation, editing, reconciliation, and bulk RFA upload;
Setting up a chain of approval for documents on budget expenditures;
Integration of the SAP Workflow with the SAP FI and data warehouse.

Project Scope

The ICSM solution includes four modules: Study Master, Planning & Forecasting, Manufacturing, and Distribution.

The Leverx Group team was involved in developing of 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

Key Features

Leverx Group works with companies and organizations to address the complex challenges of today's business world. Each of our partners is an experienced, innovative, and proven leader in their respective fields.

Automotive

SAP PLM is a solid basis for the automotive industry. This solution helps digitize and automate manufacturing processes and work more efficiently with suppliers and partners.

Aerospace & Defense

The solution allows aerospace and defense companies to reduce the time to market for innovations without compromising safety while simulating innovation scenarios along a complex value chain.

Food & Beverage

SAP PLM provides the food & beverage industry with all the required technologies that help to develop sustainable, traceable, high-quality products within a shorter time.

Consumer Goods

With SAP PLM, this industry can exceed the diverse expectations of consumers and enable sustainably and profitably growth for the business.

Pharma

SAP PLM helps to make pharmaceutical production more effective and with lower risk.

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 of 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