6. Focusing on the performance of all areas of business
Creating more agility while maintaining control
Leveraging the restructured organization
Prioritized initiatives to support organizational effectiveness
and efficiency
Rationalization of application architecture
Need to align closely with business direction
7. Shifting priorities for innovation and research focus
Increasing risk exposure across regulatory regions
Increasing complexity in supply chains
Global and local change management and control
Support collaboration across time, language and cultural
boundaries
Complex intellectual property sharing and security issues
8. Addressing personalized medicine potential
Competing across numerous smaller markets
Connecting the market and R&D
Demand for more diverse sources of information and
analytics required to evaluate
Embedded software in products requiring life cycle
management
Extension of quality and compliance to new business areas
9. Reduced barriers for building business capabilities versus
internal options
Creating agility through diversification of capabilities and
scalability
Opportunity to bypass long IT development efforts
Information security, access rights and IP protection outside
the firewall
Auditing a partner's IT capability
Cloud/SaaS models preferred for many categories of
application
10. Increasing attention to risk management and compliance
efforts related to regulatory affairs
Rising cost of compliance and agility required to address
FDA and other regulatory body warning letters
Increased use of dashboard intelligence for critical systems
in research, development and manufacturing
Investments in global regulatory management capabilities
and regulatory content management
11.
12. Single integrated
solution
Accessible realtime information
Compliance to local
regulatory
requirements
Rich industryspecific capabilities
and modular
design
Product tracking
and visibility
13. ERP should manage the procurement of raw
materials needed for manufacturing (especially
critical raw materials)
ERP should prevent unsafe products from
entering the supply chain, as well as track and
monitor individual product units
ERP should enforce compliance to local
regulatory requirements throughout the
manufacturing processes
ERP should automate work processes for Quality
Management and integrate manage Dispensing
activities
ERP should maintain production machinery and
laboratory equipment (preventive/corrective
maintenance, spare parts etc.)
14. Core ERP Suite
Microsoft Stack
Plant
Maintenance
Dispensing
Quality
Management
Costing
Chargeback
and Rebates
Transportation
Management
Scheduling
Forecasting
ISV Solutions
Partner Customizations