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IBM Express Life Sciences Solution, a qualified SAP Business All-in-One solution

Many small and mid-sized life sciences companies face the challenge of launching new products and treatments or preparing for dramatic growth. Key to addressing these challenges are predesigned business processes and the underlying applications capable of supporting highly complex and regulated processes required to bring new products to market. Equally important is efficient and affordable implementation.

The advantage

The IBM Express Life Sciences Solution is comprehensive and cost effective.  It offers: 

  • Potential solution payback of less than ½ year
  • Improved return on assets performance
  • Improved customer service (for example, order fill rates)
  • Enhanced business process continuity and risk management

This ERP solution aligns with the best business processes that addresses the needs of the life sciences industry. The software is built on SAP All-In-One software, and delivery includes IBM Business Consulting Services. The IBM Express Life Sciences Solution facilitates regulatory compliance, provides financials data and reporting capabilities, provides a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) audit trail, improves responsiveness and service to customers, and reduces operational costs.

Benefits

The IBM Express Life Sciences solution incorporates the technology and expertise of IBM with the unique features of a preconfigured SAP. This combination will allow your company to experience the following benefits:

Speed of implementation:

  • Faster time to realizing benefits

  • Minimized basic system setup time and effort, and enables focus on high-value business-improvement activities (for example, implementation of new planning organization and processes)

Reduced cost:

  • Preconfigured models allow smaller teams to develop the system

  • Templates and other aids reduce the time required

Reduced risk:

  • Leveraging of proven implementations

  • Focus on core areas

  • Emphasis on change and business improvement

  • Avoidance of pitfalls by moving, for example, change management and process design out of the prototyping phase and into the upfront high-value (business benefit-generating) activities.

Next steps

For more information, visit:

IBM and SAP Alliance


Need help?

Contact the Express Advantage Concierge, a team of specialists dedicated to midsized business 1-877-IBM-ACCESS (426-2223).

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