Compliance Integration in Product Development

Zircoo assisted with facilitating the efficient and compliant delivery of medicinal products.

Compliance Integration in Product Development

Customer:

Leading European pharmaceutical companies

Challenge:

The customers encountered regulatory challenges stemming from siloed data access, change management, manual processes, and human factors.

Solution:

To address these challenges, Zircoo developed the SAP Batch Release Hub (BRH) solution. This solution offers data-driven batch release decisions and streamlines processes to ensure compliance with life sciences regulations efficiently.

Background:

The challenges faced by our customers included:

  • Cumbersome manual identification process for impacted materials.
  • Error-prone manual processes for adding changes to batches or updating batches after regulatory approval.
  • Need to create new materials and associated master data for each change.
  • Inaccessibility of regulatory dates for planners and the manual process of checking multiple systems for regulatory dates.
  • Difficulty in tracking changes and aligning them with regulatory submission versions.
  • Lack of visibility of regulatory dates in logistics processes.

Project Scope

BRH scoping and implementation considered the customer’s specific business requirements.

Zircoo contribution:

        • Analyzing business requirements
        • Functional consulting
        • Developing BHR and its API
        • BHR implementation
        • Solution configuration
        • BRH integration with SAP S/4 HANA and external systems

Solution Benefits

Here are the key benefits of the SAP Batch Release Hub:

        • Workflow automation
        • A single platform for managing the full cycle of batch release
        • Flexible configuration for various-batch release scenarios
        • Regulation compliance management
        • Structured visualization of data
        • Electronic signature and audit logs
        • Role-based applications
        • Integration with SAP and third-party solutions

Technology Stack

        • NODE.JS
        • SAP CAP FRAMEWORK
        • SAP BTP
        • SAP EVENT MESH
        • HANA DATABASE
        • FIORI ELEMENTS
        • SAPUI5
        • JAVASCRIPT

Results:

In 2022, the implementation of SAP BRH proved to be successful in both customers’ systems, effectively enhancing batch release processes.

Throughout its utilization, our clients experienced the following outcomes:

– A reduced risk of quality non-compliance by 10%–20%.
– Lowered compliance and risk management costs by 5%–50%.
– Shortened order fulfillment lead time by 5%–50%.
– Decreased inventory carrying costs by 1%–25%.

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