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REDUCE TIME AND OPTIMIZE INVESTMENTS TO GAIN

BUSINESS ADVANTAGE

Competition in todays global pharmaceutical market means

that you must bring the right products to market faster and at

lower costs. You face common industry challenges:

Long development times mean less patent life protection afte

NDA approvals.

The companies that are first to market new drugs capture

significant market share.

Product development expenses continue to grow significantl

so you need to know which future products have the greates

potential for financial returns.

Lack of new products in your pipeline can reduce yourcorporate value in the eyes of investors.

SAP Solution Brief

New drug application

(NDA) approval is pivotalfor pharmaceutical compa-

nies. After you win appro-

val, its just a matter of

marketing and selling the

product. But achieving the

approval of your NDA sub-

mission is no easy task,

and its getting more and

more complex. The R&Dadministration capabilities

of mySAP Pharmaceuticals

can help shorten the time

required to receive NDA

approval so you have more

time to reap the benefits

by marketing the products.

The efficiency of the R&D

investment will be a keydifferentiator for pharma-

ceutical companies around

the globe.

R&D ADMINISTRATIONWITH mySAP

PHARMACEUTICALS


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SAPs solution for the pharmaceutical industry helps you meet

those challenges. It offers product development managers and

their teams a timely focus on the information critical to main-

taining a competitive advantage. It helps you maximize the

allocation of investment funds and resources. It allows you to

make faster decisions earlier in the development cycle with better

quality information while managing your R&D pipeline in realtime. Your measurable business benefits include:

Increased global project planning and scheduling

Visibility of budget, resources, and capacities for individual or

collective projects

Resource capacity planning and scheduling throughout your

global enterprise

Financial modeling capabilities to assess resources, budgets,

and risk

Improved overview of your development pipeline

Increased visibility of the key performance indicators (KPIs)

you need to manage within a project and across a portfolio Early warning indicators and trend analyses

mySAP Pharmaceuticals reduces time to market, optimizes your

new product development investment, and helps assure a

competitive advantage for your company.

ACCELERATE YOUR DEVELOPMENT CYCLE

Pharmaceutical companies must bring new products to market

in a cost-efficient and timely manner. That means managing

your global product development pipeline is the key to your

prosperity. You must plan, execute, and monitor key develop-

ment initiatives economically and with your objectives clearly in

view. You know that new products drive revenue and market

share. But do you know which of your products has the highest

profit potential? Which are on time and in budget? And which

require immediate attention?

Traditional methods of gathering and analyzing data are

inadequate to support timely decisions in todays competitive

pharmaceutical market. Time lost in inefficient processes

unnecessarily prolongs the development cycle. Industry analys

state that with the right tools companies can reduce the new

drug development cycle by a year or more. SAP provides these

tools: R&D administration with mySAP Pharmaceuticals is youadvantage in this competitive environment.

mySAP Pharmaceuticals provides an integrated, Web-based

portal that delivers the right information to the right people,

eliminating the delays in gathering and analyzing data. These

functions accelerate your operational processes and help you

make strategic decisions that ensure successful product

development.

RETOOLING R&D

Pharmaceutical companies need a Web-enabled, integratedsolution that ensures that all the people involved in R&D have

quick and secure access to up-to-date information. Based on

extensive industry knowledge and expertise, SAP has designed

functionality specifically for managing pharmaceutical research

and development. Comprehensive tools and integrated project

processing are the major strengths of these high-performance

R&D capabilities.

Research teams, clinical research organization, partners, sup-

pliers, investigators, and other product development partners

form a collaborative network dedicated to bringing new prod-

ucts to market. mySAP Pharmaceuticals links all of these areas

together, and you can control them using a comprehensive,

state-of-the-art project management system.


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SAP provides a solid foundation to effectively bring your R&D

projects swiftly to completion. It gives you the breadth and

depth of an integrated project management tool, a portfolio

management tool, and a portal. This enables you, for example,

to plan resources collaboratively, as well as check and monitor

the availability of funds, people, and materials that will ensure

the success of your project.

Project Management

The integrated project management tool links together project

planning and scheduling, resource and capacity planning, and

time and expense reporting, as well as materials management

information. With these tools, you can focus on critical path

analysis to manage your projects more effectively.

The integration of various business systems, including financials

and human resources provides project managers with a real time

global view of: Project planning, scheduling, and monitoring

Project progress analysis

Optimized capacity planning

Real-time budget monitoring

Resource allocation.

There is no need for manual data entry. All of your project costs

all costs and commitments related to the project, either for

materials or services are easily captured using Web-based

project-related procurement or time reporting. Tools for

managing project costs facilitate the approval process for budgets

and purchases. Resource allocation tools help you assign the

right people with the right skills and availability to the right

project. Complete planning techniques and aggregative tools

support cross-project cost, revenue, margin, schedule, and

resource management. These tools support project managers

who are responsible for either single or multiple projects.

To further enhance collaboration between team members and

accelerate projects, the R&D administration capabilities of

mySAP Pharmaceuticals help you manage huge quantities of

internal and external documents. They provide flexible ways to

structure data so you can integrate data into your day-to-day

business processes. Version management ensures that importan

process status information is recorded. Flexible status manage-ment, comprehensive classification and search functions, and

links to all important logistical data ensure highly efficient

document processing.

These functions are enhanced with a link to the archiving

system, allowing users to archive documents with a single click

Or the system can automatically transfer documents to the

archiving system based on user-defined rules. Web-based

document management ensure that documents are available fo

external team members, guaranteeing that everybody has insta

access to the most up-to-date documents.

Portfolio Management

mySAP Pharmaceuticals also delivers global decision-support

tools that synthesize data from internal and external systems

(which can be SAP and non-SAP systems), facilitating the

decisions of portfolio managers. It also includes tools for strate

portfolio management, such as:

Business planning and simulation to model what-if

scenarios to analyze the success of products in your portfolio

The Management Cockpit to monitor key performance

indicators based on your business model so you can manage

complex projects and situations, reduce uncertainty, and

detect irregularities

The Balanced Scorecard to translate your enterprises

strategy into separate, operative business processes while

measuring and executing it on all levels of your organization


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Business planning and simulation capabilities help you conduct

comprehensive simulations and scenario analyses without

investing excessive time and effort. It enables you to account for

the business risks in scenario planning or to carry out resource

allocation as part of business planning across your global

enterprise. You can build an integrated planning model for

different planning levels from the strategic to the resourceallocation levels.

With the Management Cockpit and the Balanced Scorecard you

can visualize and analyze the relationship between operational

KPIs and the strategic objectives of your enterprise. These two

tools provide decision-relevant information and accelerate

communication in the management team. The Management

Cockpit provides a simple, graphic display of important

information, and the Balanced Scorecard monitors important

business measures for achieving your companys strategic

objectives.

Enterprise Portals

The R&D administration tools in mySAP Pharmaceuticals are

accessible through a role-based enterprise portal that increases

efficiency and productivity by filtering information and provid-

ing the right information to the right people. Heres how:

Portals automatically push relevant data and alerts to users.

This assures swift decisions, and you dont need to manually

locate and retrieve information from various legacy systems,

in-house applications, or outside sources.

Users can sign on once, from any location, and from a single

personalized interface, access data from any authorized

information source internal or external to the company.

Portals can be tailored to the requirements of individual role

in your company.

YOUR PLATFORM FOR GROWTHmySAP Pharmaceuticals provides an unmatched, open, and

comprehensive set of functions for your drug development

process. With SAP, you can integrate your project and portfolio

management with financial information, procurement

processes, and human resource management in an easy, user-

friendly, and comprehensive way.

mySAP Pharmaceuticals leverages the power of the Internet so

the solution can offer the integration that links all your busine

partners and information sources, whether they are back-end

applications or Web-based services. It will help you deliver highvalue information to your people faster, streamlining labor- an

time-intensive processes.

And with R&D administration with mySAP Pharmaceuticals as

powerful first step, you have the resources, industry knowledg

and technology to continue to support your research and

development efforts as your needs grow and change.

mySAP Pharmaceuticals helps your company stand out against

the competition.

For more information go to www.sap.com/pharm.

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