Reimagining clinical supply chain planning and operations

Your organization can optimize and automate the supply process for clinical trials with a clinical supply chain management system that increases visibility into the status of clinical supplies worldwide. SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management integrates with your clinical trial management system (CTMS) and interactive response technology (IRT) to help you meet the blinding and randomization needs for clinical trials and facilitate demand forecasting, manufacturing, packaging, labeling, and shipments of clinical trial material.

• Hybrid deployment with cloud and on-premise modules
• Cloud-based functionalities to plan the study and demand of clinical supplies
• Extensions for SAP S/4HANA for clinical study operations

Key benefits

Reduce cycle time and improve efficiency

Benefit from simplified and automated clinical trial supply chain processes, which help reduce complexity to lower costs.

Increase transparency

Achieve optimal site level visibility and improve clinical planning by taking actual enrollment and dispensing into account for clinical supplies replenishment.

Optimize collaboration

Streamline supply management processes by integrating all clinical supply stakeholders, including suppliers, manufacturers, 3PLs, and clinical sites.

Key features

Setup of complex clinical studies

• Maintain clinically relevant parameters
• Define and handle complex study designs and benefit from the built-in support for various study types
• Check the calculation statuses of studies on the study overview page
• Integrate with any clinical trial management system or CTMS software

Planning and forecasting

• Begin to plan demand on drug substance or drug product levels as soon as a use case emerges
• Carry out deterministic calculations for demand planning
• Simulate multiple planning scenarios based on projected or actual subject enrollment figures and visits

Intelligent manufacturing and packaging

• Manage medication lists for open and blinded serialized trials and perform batch allocation and expiry date calculations
• Provide information for internal packaging and external labeling
• Help ensure efficient shelf-life management

Better stock visibility and efficient distribution

• Enable visibility of stock beyond the depot level down to the specific site and kit ID level
• Help ensure import compliance through picking, packing, and repackaging based on medication IDs for clinical kits
• Integrate third-party logistics by using specific interfaces (GS1 industry standard)