Designed to streamline the end-to-end journey, from patient enrollment to manufacturing and delivery, the SAP Cell and Gene Therapy Orchestration solution ensures greater visibility, traceability, and compliance across the entire therapy lifecycle. By orchestrating real-time data and connecting stakeholders, it helps organizations improve operational efficiency, reduce risks, and accelerate time to treatment.
In this article, we’ll explore how SAP Cell and Gene Therapy Orchestration empowers healthcare and biotech companies to meet the growing demands of personalized medicine with confidence and precision.
Understanding Cell and Gene Therapy Management
Managing cell and gene therapy requires seamless orchestration of complex, end-to-end processes, from order placement to final delivery to the patient. Building the right system architecture is critical for successfully navigating process orchestration challenges because there are no standardized solutions for these highly personalized therapies.
SAP is leading the way by positioning SAP S/4HANA as the digital core for personalized medicine, offering robust tools for supply chain visualization, master data management, and process integration. Additionally, existing functionalities within SAP systems like R/3 and ECC provide strong foundations for managing patient data, ensuring traceability, and supporting the unique supply chain demands of gene and cell therapies.
Designing an SAP-Based Solution for Cell and Gene Therapy
SAP Cell and Gene Therapy Orchestration is a specialized solution designed to manage and streamline the complex, personalized processes of delivering advanced therapies like cell and gene treatments. It enables organizations to coordinate every step, from patient identification and order management to manufacturing, quality control, and final delivery, while ensuring full traceability and compliance with stringent regulatory standards.
By leveraging SAP’s powerful digital core, including SAP S/4HANA, this solution helps healthcare providers and biopharmaceutical companies optimize their supply chains, manage sensitive patient data securely, and ensure that therapies reach patients accurately and efficiently.
Key Considerations for Commercial Operations
Commercial operations for cell and gene therapies require careful consideration of the supply chain, life sciences companies, and patient data. The cell and gene therapy solution enables organizations to achieve full GMP compliance and FDA validation on a timely basis, ensuring high-quality products.
SAP ERP provides a comprehensive solution for cell and gene therapy companies, supporting business processes and quality management. The solution also enables event-driven data exchange, ensuring real-time tracking and tracing of products and reducing turnaround time.
Integrations with SAP BTP
SAP Cell and Gene Therapy Orchestration integrates with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to enhance flexibility, scalability, and real-time insights across complex therapy workflows. SAP BTP acts as the digital foundation that enables seamless integration between SAP S/4HANA and other critical systems, such as patient management platforms, manufacturing execution systems, and logistics providers.
Through SAP BTP’s integration suite, APIs, and event-driven architecture, organizations can connect disparate data sources, automate processes, and ensure secure data exchange across the therapy lifecycle.
Features & Benefits of SAP Cell and Gene Therapy Solutions
Supply chain visibility
Leverage end-to-end supply chain visibility and orchestration to establish both the chain of identity and the chain of custody, orchestrate the delivery of the product to patients, and ensure compliance with critical regulatory requirements.
Faster time to market
Achieve faster time to market and clinical trial recruitment goals by reducing manual effort required to onboard new treatment centers, handle more sites through a single interface, and scale the supply chain for the commercial phase.
Patient and product tracking
Collect and store chain of identity (COI) and chain of custody (COC) events, and generate COI and COC IDs for accurate patient and product reporting.
Reduced costs
Integrate all relevant business partners in the same ecosystem, including logistics service providers, treatment centers, cell labs, and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), to reduce overall costs and turnaround time.
Shipment order lifecycle management
Leverage comprehensive shipment order lifecycle management capabilities to capture key milestones, such as goods receipt, biospecimen disposition, and batch allocation to shipments.
Digital order management
Streamline digital order management through the configurable orchestration of gene therapy treatments and enable order management teams to collect critical data and tasks throughout the journey.
Label management
Utilize a defined interface to existing print solutions to improve label management and maintain the end-to-end integrity of cell and gene therapy processes.
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Our SAP consulting team at Surety Systems goes beyond simply filling resource gaps, offering strategic advisory services to help you design the right solution architecture, streamline operational workflows, and navigate the complexities of integrating SAP solutions in highly regulated environments.
Whether you’re launching a new orchestration project or enhancing existing systems, our senior-level, US-based SAP consultants guide your internal teams through every step, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and sustainable growth over time.
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