Life Sciences
Life Sciences companies, recently challenged by supply shortages and demand surges, operate in a critical global industry expected to reach $1.9 Trillion by 2027. This environment requires seamless integration of all connected supply chain processes—from capacity setting to inventory placement—to achieve precise orchestration. The goal is to ensure full product integrity and compliance while simultaneously achieving optimal global utilization, effectively transforming uncertainty into predictable, patient-centric supply.
Industrial Challenges
The supply chain challenges within the Life-sciences industry are often within interconnected and can be broadly categorized as
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Our Approach
We deliver operational excellence by implementing SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) to harmonize core constraints.
Supply Chain Synchronization: We unify demand forecasting with long lead-time supply to provide continuous visibility across the network, optimizing API Management by balancing risk against inventory cost.
Obsolescence Risk Mitigation: TOur IBP planning models are enhanced to treat the Shelf Life Constraint as a primary factor to eliminate scrap.
Manufacturing Agility: We deploy SAP PP/DS for intelligent scheduling, minimizing lost capacity from High Changeover Constraints and ensuring cost-effective Batch Optimization sequences.
Value Assurance: This integrated solution delivers a compliant, synchronized plan that maximizes asset utilization, accelerates product release, and guarantees sufficient Remaining Shelf Life at the customer level.
Key Differentiators
Our expertise goes beyond standard SAP implementation. We leverage a suite of pre-configured, industry-specific accelerators built directly into SAP IBP and S/4HANA PP/DS to solve the core challenges of pharmaceutical manufacturing rapidly and effectively.
Pharma-Specific Forecasting Models
Within SAP IBP Demand Planning, we utilize specialized, pre-defined models that account for factors like product launch curves. This immediately improves forecast accuracy for high-value APIs and Finished Goods, crucial for reliable batch sizing and proactive API Management.
Pre-Configured Campaign Planning Solution
We deploy specialized heuristics within PP/DS to automatically group production based on clean-in-place (CIP) complexity. This solution is pre-tuned for pharmaceutical operations, providing immediate success in minimizing High Changeover Constraints and optimizing Batch Utilization.
Advanced Shelf Life Planning Engine
Our proprietary planning model enhancement for SAP IBP embeds the Minimum Remaining Shelf Life (MRSL) constraint across the entire supply network. This enables accurate FEFO execution and proactively generates alerts to minimize Shelf Life Constraint risk and inventory obsolescence.
Setup Matrix Generation Accelerators
We significantly accelerate the setup of complex scheduling logic in PP/DS. Our custom enhancement tools reduce the time and effort required to map granular pharmaceutical changeover rules into the Setup Matrix, ensuring faster deployment and highly accurate detailed scheduling.
The Result: We bypass typical greenfield implementation complexity, achieving verifiable cost reductions and a significantly faster time-to-value with solutions specifically tuned for compliance and performance.
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