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The value case for SAP S/4HANA in Life Sciences

Accelerating growth, delivering predictable business outcomes and fast-tracking your digital journey with SAP S/4HANA and ecosystem technologies.

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Astellas’ next-gen cloud-based IT core platform

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SAP S/4HANA: Intelligent enterprise transformation

By leveraging the strength of the SAP S/4HANA platform, Accenture can help our life sciences clients succeed on their digital transformation journey—developing a clear business case, a defined path to achieve it and the experience to deliver it with you and your patients in mind. You need an approach that works for your company and a vision that encompasses infrastructure, platform strategy and your desired degree of transformation.

With our deep life sciences expertise, extensive experience with SAP S/4HANA—including Accenture’s myConcerto platform customized for life sciences and the first partner to achieve SAP® Model Company certification—we can help you make the right investments, manage complexity and quickly realize value.

Accenture is SAP’s leading business partner and the first to be working with SAP end-to-end from product innovation, to development and delivery of SAP S/4HANA and industry solutions.

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RISE with SAP. SOAR with Accenture.

SOAR with Accenture increases the value companies realize from RISE with SAP and accelerates their journey to and in the cloud.

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“We were able to move to a full-cloud platform with the help of Accenture, which has extensive experience in implementing core platforms for global operations.”

— Shinya Suda, Senior Vice President and Head of Information Systems at Astellas

Why invest now in SAP S/4HANA in Life Sciences?

Moving to SAP S/4HANA can help you leap ahead of this transition while digitally transforming and growing your business. Specifically, it can help you:

Embrace New Science

Investing in digital transformation and integrated data will help you benefit from New Science, which will drive 61% of all revenues from 2021-2026.

Embed new technologies, now

SAP S/4HANA has AI, machine learning and neural network capabilities built into its core for a more connected, user-friendly, modern organization.

Personalize with purpose

Patients expect tailored solutions and interactions. SAP S/4HANA connects disparate datasets, providing a holistic view of your customers.

Reinvent the supply chain

As production shifts to personalized medicines and small batches, SAP S/4HANA will bring the flexibility needed to make supply chains more responsive.

Better serve customers

Digital innovations and smart devices allow life sciences companies to layer new services on existing products and deepen their added value.

Accelerate and improve decision-making

SAP S/4HANA will substantially accelerate your back-office operations, providing your business with the data necessary for real-time decision-making.

Transform your business with cloud

Cloud first for life sciences

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Spotlight on: Digital thread for life sciences

We bring the Digital Thread for Life Sciences (DTLS) to clients in partnership with our industry and SAP experts to manage the many processes that affect product lifecycle management – freeing up valuable resources to drive full business transformation.

Historically, the life sciences industry has been slow to adopt and integrate digital functions across the value chain (from R&D to commercial). This is due somewhat to several misinformed orthodoxies rooted in the industry, including:

  • We can’t change the way we discover medicine,
  • We can’t deviate from in-person clinical trials, and
  • We can’t rapidly scale manufacturing for new modalities.

This combination of product complexity and compressed timeframes highlights the need for a digital thread to accelerate the supply of complex treatments from clinical trials through launch and production and securely connect siloed teams and datasets.

Building the thread on SAP creates better collaboration for faster decisions and a lower risk of non-compliance or under-performance in supply.

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Weaving the digital thread for life sciences

Accenture’s digital thread works to tackle the ongoing challenges within life sciences through greater connectivity & data visibility.

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Breakthrough treatments, such as mRNA and personalized therapies, have created tremendous opportunities for pharmaceutical companies but require intricate manufacturing, supply chain and quality control processes that are difficult to support. In addition, these complex products are coming to market faster than ever, leaving less time to develop and optimize the manufacturing process.

By embracing technologies like Cloud, AI and machine learning, these companies are able to deliver more personalized products faster and improve the patient experience.

AWS and Accenture are collaborating at several companies to transform these processes. In this session, we identify key learnings and patterns such as how data is being used to optimize clinical trials, accelerate products to market and expand their pipelines to become more patient-centric.

The power of a digital thread in life sciences

Watch a recording of the AWS + Accenture FiercePharma Webinar. Learn more: https://accntu.re/3vuXztD

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The unique value we bring

Transformational stories are exciting, but success is never self-explanatory. We help our clients create compelling, quantified business cases for SAP S/4HANA. Then, we help them achieve them.

230

customized assets to help life sciences companies quickly embrace SAP S/4HANA.

20k+

SAP S/4HANA practitioners.

300+

SAP S/4HANA projects ongoing or completed, including Accenture’s own transition to S/4.

1st

to achieve SAP® Model Company certification, which can accelerate deployment of SAP S/4HANA by as much as 30 percent.1

40+

years of experience working with thousands of clients and SAP.

1 Based on internal research by SAP

Case studies

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SAP S/4HANA in Life Sciences

Flawless execution from SAP ECC to S/4HANA

Bristol Myers Squibb upgrades global SAP to S/4HANA in the AWS cloud flawlessly.
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Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany puts digital at the heart of healthcare

A new SAP S/4 HANA ERP solution ushers Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Healthcare into a digital future.

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Powered by SAP S/4HANA

Accenture runs its core financial processing on a single global system instance of SAP S/4HANA®—a... 

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Awards & recognition

Our SAP S/4HANA work helps life sciences companies improve efficiency, revolutionize supply chain management and embrace new opportunities in digitalization and personalization. The recognition we receive strengthens our commitment.

GARTNER® MAGIC QUADRANT™

Leader in SAP S/4HANA Application Services, Worldwide

Three years in a row

EVEREST GROUP PEAK MATRIX

Leader in SAP S/4HANA Service Providers

2021

What we think

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Tech Vision 2022: Meet me in the Metaverse

The next wave of digital change is here, providing forward-looking companies with an opportunity to act today to be ready for the future.

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Maximizing the value of cloud in life sciences

Find out how companies can navigate the impediments to the value and progress that digitalization can drive.

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New science: A new economic reality for growth

New Science has the potential to make medicine vastly more precise and effective, but will its price tag keep it out of most people’s reach?

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Our leaders

Steen Moller

Managing Director – Life Sciences
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Stefano Bergantino

Managing Director – Technology Consulting, Life Sciences
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Seung Chae

Managing Director – SAP Services for Life Sciences, North America

Giuliano Pregaglia

Principal Director – Technology Consulting for Life Sciences​
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Karl Conroy

Director – Life Sciences, SAP S/4HANA Segmentation

Capabilities

Life Sciences Cloud First

Finding new and better ways to unlock data, increase collaboration, improve engagement and transform your...

Accenture myConcerto for SAP

Harmonize SAP technologies, applications and capabilities to amplify business results in the intelligent...

Technology services

Addressing industry challenges with innovative, industry-leading technology solutions.

Join the SAP team

Our clients are the industry leaders who are shaping the future of Life Sciences. We are constantly expanding and enriching our SAP S/4HANA services and capabilities to provide them with the support they need to innovate and grow.

 

Your talent and ambition will help us make the difference. Are you excited to tap into the power of SAP S/4HANA and help Life Sciences businesses achieve better patient outcomes? Join us and discover how far you can go.

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