How will enterprise computing vendors help biopharma manufacturers and distributors meet their business needs?
Among manufacturing industries, life sciences stands out with its intensive data requirements, combined with the need for validated or auditable results—not just for Sarbanes-Oxley, but also for reporting clinical data to FDA, or marketing data to CMS and others. Meeting the requirements of these regulatory bodies is a tall order—even before addressing the complexity of managing the business effectively. The largest biopharma companies, as well as leading distributors, have been longtime users of enterprise computing systems. ERP systems are now commonplace in mid- or small-sized organizations as well. A broad range of applications software is developed to link into these enterprises systems and both the ERP vendors and applications developers continually bring out new ones. All this points to the centrality of the enterprise systems for running today’s manufacturing and distribution operations effectively. With this in mind, Pharmaceutical Commerce has assembled three of the leading e
