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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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