Business Details
This feature introduces the entitlement Industry Solution Life Sciences and related functionality. When enabled, the buyer can share clinical trial relevant information with the supplier as part of sub-contracting purchase orders or stock transport orders for efficient collaboration in the manufacturing and distribution of the clinical finished goods. Clinical trial data originates in the SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management industry solution.
The following lists the included features:
- Life Sciences clinical supplier relationship (Buyers)
Buyers can enable clinical suppliers for this collaboration. Clinical collaboration features are only available to suppliers that are enabled this way.
- Clinical orders
Subcontracting purchase orders have been enhanced with clinical study attributes that relate to the SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management industry solution. The following attributes are available for order items:
- Study ID and description
- Protocol ID
- PCN ID (Packaging Control Number)
- PCN Expiry Date
- PCN Release Status
- Kit Type and description
- Medication sequence number ranges
- Label ID (for schedule line components)
- Permissions
New Life Sciences-specific permissions have been introduced, and the related permission checks have been implemented for orders, ship notices, receipts and related work lists (workbench and other classical lists).
- Ship notice for subcontracting PO
Users can assign medication sequence numbers at item level without packaging (no handling units).
- Ship Notice for STOs
Handling of medication sequence number assignments is enabled, but without user interaction (no deviations supported).
- Multi-tier orders and multi-tier ship notice worklists
Clinical trial specific attributes have been included as filter criteria and columns.
- PCN Release Status enabled in order
The PCN release status is enabled in life science orders.
- Life Sciences clinical supplier relationship
A new option is available in Buyer's supplier relationships configuration. A sub-option has been added below Supply Chain Collaboration enablement to enable Life Sciences clinical supply chain collaboration.
- OrderCategory for Clinical Trial Orders
The OrderCategory capability is enabled specifically for clinical trial related orders. This feature is activated at Purchase Order (PO) header level, streamlining the order management process and ensuring that clinical trial orders are correctly categorized from the outset.
- Reactivating ASN Validations by Order Category
ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice) validations shall be reactivated to operate based on the specific order category. This change enhances the accuracy of shipment processing by ensuring that validations are tailored to the appropriate order types.
- Life Science-Specific Fields for ASN
In support of life science operations, the PCN and PCN Status are added to the ASN display. This addition provides greater visibility and control over product shipments.
- UUID-Based Search for Enhanced Traceability
To improve user traceability and security, the user administration screen has been enhanced by incorporating the search for the user based on the exact UUID. This UUID is currently passed to the BTP (Business Technology Platform) for logging purposes, allowing for precise identification of user actions in the logs without altering user data or profiles.
SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network
This feature supports the collaboration between the buyer and supplier with regards to clinical trials in SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management integrated with SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration using SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network.
SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management allows you to manage the planning, sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and reconciliation of supplies for clinical studies, and addresses specific blinding and randomization needs.
The integration enhances the purchase order and ship notice documents to support the master data and transaction data of SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management. Buyers can create a subcontracting purchase order for clinical manufacturing activities, or a stock transport order to move:
- Component materials to a contract manufacturing organization (CMO).
- Clinical finished goods (CFG) to a distribution site.
The purchase order has been enhanced to include data such as study identifier, study description, protocol identifier, packaging control number (PCN), PCN expiry date, PCN release status, medication list, kit type, kit type description, and pool identifier. The IDoc ARBCIG_ORDERS has been updated with additional segments to accommodate the data.
The ship notice has been enhanced to include data such as study identifier, study description, and protocol identifier. The web service DespatchedDeliveryNotification (service provider DespatchedDeliveryNotification_Async_In) has been updated to accommodate the data.
Note
New Life Sciences industry specific elements have been introduced to the OrderRequest and ShipNoticeRequest messages with the cXML versions 1.2.058, 1.2.059, and 1.2.060. For details please refer to the release notes at
Commerce XML Resources.
You can track the purchase order (OrderRequest) and ship notice (ShipNoticeRequest) documents in the Transaction Tracker of the Managed Gateway for Spend&Network portal.
Note
SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network:
- The integration supports only SAP S/4HANA.
- The PCN release status is supported from cXML version 1.2.060 and later.
User Interface Changes