Events & Webinars
Current Online Events
Free web sessions of the Life Sciences Alliance
With our web session series, we would like to give you an overview of the Life Sciences Alliance portfolio as well as cover further topics of digitalization, compliance and quality assurance.
Here you will find web sessions on life sciences topics offered by the Alliance partners (All for One Group, DHC Group, OSC and Process Partner).
We look forward to seeing you!
Friday, 12. July 2024 (in German language) – Register now!
Identification of medicinal products (IDMP) with the SAP Cloud App Polaris
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by DHC (in German language).
The core idea behind the IDMP is an in-depth knowledge of the medicinal products on the market with a special focus on their composition and pharmacovigilance. This is achieved by consolidating and centralising the data. In addition to the EU, other authorities such as the FDA and local authorities also require corresponding information. This means that in future all MAHs (Marketing Authorisation Holders) will have to submit significantly more structured data (IDMP or, for the EU, SPOR-compatible data) to the authorities. In order to prepare the submission of product information, a large amount of data must be collected throughout the company. Appropriate IT systems and processes must be established in the company for this purpose.
The SAP Cloud App Polaris from Gramont can be used to support the tasks involved. Gramont Polaris is an SAP cloud application with integration to SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC for consolidating structured and unstructured data for preparing the electronic submission of authorisation dossiers. It enables the integration, aggregation and standardisation of this data and its conversion into ISO IDMP standards, terminology and formats. Polaris offers a flexible architecture that helps companies fulfil additional requirements as they arise.
The web session introduces the concept and the software.
Past Online Events of the Life Sciences Alliance
Below you will find the web sessions and events already offered by the Life Sciences Alliance.
Wednesday, 26. June 2024 (in German language) – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
The factory kit for the store floor of medtech companies
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One (in German language).
As an SAP system house for medium-sized companies, we also offer a solution for the store floor for MedTech companies. The Factory Kit accompanies you on the way to an intelligent and networked company. The solution is used for paperless production, for exchanging real-time data between your production and your (SAP) processes as well as for process optimization and to increase transparency in your production. In this web session, we will introduce you to our SAP-based solution, which is not an ME system.
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Friday, 21. June 2024 (in German language) – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
Validation of SAP S/4HANA on-premise and Private Cloud Edition
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by DHC (in German language).
SAP offers its ERP system S/4HANA both on-premise and as a cloud solution. As all computerised systems used in the life sciences have to be validated, all ERP systems were previously operated by the companies themselves (even if they were installed at a hosting service provider). From SAP’s cloud portfolio, the Private Cloud Edition is an alternative to the on-premise version for the life sciences. The web session looks at the differences between the two S/4HANA alternatives from the perspective of CSV (Computerised System Validation).
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Friday, 3. May 2024 (in German language) – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
SAP S/4HANA Transformation and Validation in Life Sciences
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One and DHC (in German language).
With the Life Sciences Alliance (LSA), we support pharmaceutical and medical technology companies in the implementation, transformation and integrated validation of SAP systems. In addition to greenfield implementations, many SAP ECC systems are being transformed to S/4HANA (brownfield/bluefield) – while retaining at least some of the existing processes.
In this web session, we explain our phases for the system transformation (system conversion) of an SAP ECC to S/4HANA with integrated validation.
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Thursday, 18. April 2024 (in German language) – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
SAP S/4HANA Implementation and Validation in Life Sciences
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by DHC (in German language).
With the Life Sciences Alliance (LSA), we offer pharmaceutical and medical technology companies a harmonized approach for the implementation with integrated validation of SAP S/4HANA systems. Thus, the Alliance accompanies you on your journey to S/4HANA from the very beginning – from strategy and roadmap to implementation.
In this webinar, we explain in more detail what benefits the LSA approach offers you for the optimal, validated deployment of S/4HANA, how it can also save you costs in the long term and optimize your processes.
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Tuesday, 12. December 2023 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
Increase the security of your SAP systems - recognise risks and vulnerabilities and implement security measures immediately
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by OSC (in German language).
The continuous protection of SAP systems and applications against cyber threats is a constant challenge for companies. Find out in our one-hour webinar about the possibilities of using a professional and automated SAP security audit to identify vulnerabilities, prevent unauthorised access, secure applications and thus permanently improve the security of your SAP landscape. Our SAP security experts will explain to you how we analyse security-relevant areas with the help of tools. As a result of the analysis, you will receive action reports with specific recommendations for action to quickly eliminate the identified risks. Together we will discuss strategies to sustainably increase your SAP security and how you can permanently protect yourself against potential attacks.
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Tuesday, 12. December 2023 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
Change folders for the documentation of change processes in the life sciences industry
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One (in German language).
As a company in a regulated environment, you are obliged to maintain a suitable quality system that ensures that a prospective assessment is possible for planned changes to master data and that an approval process is taken into account before implementation. With change folders, you are able to map change processes in an SAP S/4HANA system transparently and comprehensively and take approval processes into account.
The web session will give you an insight into how you can map your change process under SAP S/4HANA. The event is therefore aimed at your company’s master data team and all employees involved in the change and approval processes.
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22 March 2023, 10:00 a.m. – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
NIS-2 for Life Sciences: Overview & Need for Action
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One (in German language).
Every SAP system – like any other IT system – has potential vulnerabilities that pose a latent danger. In this webinar, we would like to show you how diverse these vulnerabilities are and how attackers can exploit them. Furthermore, we will show you which automated possibilities our SAP audit offers to screen SAP systems with regard to possible vulnerabilities and derive concrete measures for you from this. The aim of an audit is to keep the attack surface of your systems as small as possible and to further expand the security maturity level. Our security experts will show you which areas are analysed in detail and what the respective tests are based on.
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Tuesday, 21. March 2023 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
Identify possible vulnerabilities and generate measures with the SAP Security Audit
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by OSC (in German language).
Every SAP system – like any other IT system – has potential vulnerabilities that pose a latent danger. In this webinar, we would like to show you how diverse these vulnerabilities are and how attackers can exploit them. Furthermore, we will show you which automated possibilities our SAP audit offers to screen SAP systems with regard to possible vulnerabilities and derive concrete measures for you from this. The aim of an audit is to keep the attack surface of your systems as small as possible and to further expand the security maturity level. Our security experts will show you which areas are analysed in detail and what the respective tests are based on.
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Thursday, 2. March 2023 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
Manage inspection plan changes with change folders in SAP S/4HANA
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One (in German language).
Changing master data is part of your change management process. With SAP S/4HANA, change services can no longer be managed with change requests or change orders. As of SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS01, the change folder (PLM-CR) has been activated as the successor to change requests and change orders. The change folders recommended by SAP are used to track approval processes.
If you are planning a conversion project, you are affected by the use of change folders if you use transactions CC31, CC32, CC33, CC62, OS72, OS73 in your SAP ECC system.
In this web session you will learn how to manage the release process of inspection plans via change folders. You will get to know the Fiori Launchpad, in which the change management process is managed via new applications. The range of functions includes apps for managing change folders, change master records and the Engineering Cockpit.
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Thursday, 09 February 2023 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
Validation of SAP S/4HANA on-premise and Private Cloud Edition
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by DHC (in German language).
SAP offers its ERP system S/4HANA both on-premise and as a cloud solution. Since all computer-based systems used in the life sciences have to be validated, all ERP systems were previously operated by the companies themselves (even if they were installed at a hosting service provider). From SAP’s cloud portfolio, the Private Cloud Edition for Life Sciences is an alternative to the on-premise version. The webinar looks at the differences between the two S/4HANA alternatives from the perspective of CSV (Computerised System Validation).
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Friday, 03 February 2023 - Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
SAP Life Sciences Innovations / Ecosystem Strategy & Priorities
A Life Sciences Alliance web session with SAP speakers, hosted by DHC (in German language).
In an SAP Life Sciences ecosystem built by SAP, a comprehensive solution portfolio is offered that provides industry-specific applications via an Industry Cloud based on the ERP core S/4HANA. In the web session, we explained market trends in the life sciences, the SAP architecture and solution portfolio for the life sciences, the structure and goals of the SAP ecosystem as well as SAP solutions for the life sciences from the areas of clinical trials, regulatory compliance, manufacturing supply chain, batch release and cell & gene therapy.
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Thursday, 20 January 2023 - Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
LSA Roadmap to SAP S/4HANA for the Life Sciences
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by DHC (in German language).
The life sciences are faced with the challenge of modernising existing IT systems – especially SAP – and optimising processes on a new platform for the future. Today, SAP offers a very comprehensive solution portfolio around its ERP system S/4HANA.
Especially for the pharmaceutical industry and medical technology, our Life Sciences Alliance (LSA) has developed a roadmap that covers all phases from the preparation of decisions to the implementation strategy to the productive implementation of an SAP system based on S/4HANA. The web session took a closer look at the approach and gave a first impression of what planning a digital transformation looks like.
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Friday, 1 July, 2022 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast! (in German language)
Transformation with (I)IoT
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One (in German language).
There are many ideas and visions in the field of (I)IoT, and the technological possibilities are great. But it is often a great challenge for companies from the pharmaceutical and medical technology sector to transfer these potentials into concrete use cases with economic added value.
In our free web session “Transformation with (I)IoT”, we briefly presented some successful customer projects and then showed you approaches and methodologies that you can use to work out concrete use cases with economic added value for your company.
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Friday, 8 April 2022 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
Supplier lifecycle with SAP Ariba in the pharmaceutical and medical technology industry
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One (in German language).
You want to be able to better assess whether your suppliers meet your requirements, e.g. ISO standards. With the SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle, you have a tool that can enable you to digitise these processes. You design predefined purchasing processes that meet the requirements of an audit for validated purchasing.
In this 45-minute webinar, we showed you how a qualified registration process with NDA in SAP Ariba can look. We also looked at qualification and certificate management in the supplier profile. We took you on a digital journey into our live system, where you could directly experience the processes described above.
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Friday, 25 February 2022 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
Self Services with SAP Fiori in the Life Sciences Industry
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by OSC (in German language).
Mobile working and the changed way of working in increasingly decentralised teams clearly show the potential behind the digitalisation of processes. The focus is often on HR processes, so-called Employee and Management Self Services (ESS/MSS). Today, SAP already provides a variety of standard services to better integrate employees into life sciences business processes and to create added value for employees.
We presented the most common ESS and MSS scenarios in SAP and showed you which opportunities are offered by the digitalisation of these processes and which mistakes should be avoided.
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Friday, 18 February 2022 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
Integrated LIMS with QM in SAP S/4HANA (practical example from customer project)
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by DHC (in German language).
SAP QM is a fully-fledged Laboratory Information and Management System (LIMS) and offers many advantages for your company; the complete integration into the logistical processes of the SAP system is the key to success.
The following quality-relevant processes are mapped here: Quality planning, sample management, inspection processing, deviation management / CAPA, quality costs, certificate creation, stability studies, supplier release, statistical process control (SPC).
In this webinar, we went into the implemented processes in a customer project and showed how an integrated solution in SAP S/4HANA was realised with the help of SAP QM.
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Friday, 11 February 2022 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
Access, Visitor and Evacuation Management in the Life Sciences Industry
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by our partner OSC (in German language).
Efficient access control is essential for companies in the medical technology and pharmaceutical industries. The boundaries between classic access control and security and safety requirements in companies are becoming increasingly blurred.
The current challenge is, for example, the linking of existing access authorisations with additional properties or qualifications that also expire over time (example: vaccination certificate or forklift licence). Only after various parameters have been checked will access or the start of the forklift truck be authorised. During the webinar, OSC will present an automated software solution to the participants, which restructures, regulates and controls the presence of employees, external companies and visitors in the company in a data protection compliant manner. In addition to SAP, many other software systems can be connected. Autonomous operation is also possible. The webinar will be rounded off with examples of current trends and new developments in access, evacuation and visitor management.
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Friday, 11 February 2022 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
Protect SAP data exports against cyber attacks and along the digital supply chain
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by our partner SECUDE (in German language).
The current almost daily news about cyber attacks show that companies can never completely secure their IT perimeters. Due to their special data protection and security requirements, life sciences companies in particular need effective measures in case attackers were able to penetrate their IT systems. The idea is to prevent cyber attacks by ensuring that no data can leave the systems that can be used beyond the company’s own IT security perimeter. This means controlling and automatically encrypting all data exports from company applications such as SAP. In order to be able to work securely with the exported data afterwards, a Digital Rights Management (DRM) platform such as Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) is needed.
In this web session, our partner SECUDE showed you how to protect SAP downloads, exported bills of materials (BoM) and other document data extracted from SAP automatically with MIP, while fully preserving process efficiency. With the help of the “Data Protector for SAP”, the security profile of the exported SAP data is automatically transferred to the appropriate MIP “label”. This means that only authorised users have access to this data, even if it has to leave the SAP system or be used along the digital supply chain. Conversely, it means that hackers can capture this data but cannot use it because of the MIP data encryption.
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December 3, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
SAP Security Audit for the security of your system
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by OSC (in German language).
The current threats and attacks on IT and infrastructure in companies have long ceased to be an abstract danger. Every day, security incidents occur that can seriously affect a company. SAP systems are often the focus of attacks from inside and outside the company. For intruders, there are a multitude of attack points. Effective protection is therefore almost impossible without technical aids. Security does not have to be expensive. Our security packages allow you to quickly, flexibly and cost-effectively analyze your SAP security in the most important areas. This includes e.g. database security, the check of your source code in in-house developments, your implemented authorization concepts as well as many other system parameters.
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November 4, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
SAP S/4HANA Transformation and Validation in Life Sciences
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by DHC (in German language).
With the Life Sciences Alliance (LSA), we support pharmaceutical and medical technology companies in the implementation, transformation and integrated validation of SAP systems. In addition to greenfield implementations, many SAP ECC systems are being transformed to S/4HANA (brownfield/bluefield) – while retaining at least some of the existing processes.
In this web session, we will explain our phases for the system transformation (system conversion) of an SAP ECC to S/4HANA with integrated validation.
You missed the web session or learned about it too late?
Then simply request the web session podcast!
November 12, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
Digital Supply Chain – Smart solutions for logistics
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One (in German Language).
Hardly any area of business processes offers more potential for digitalization. From goods procurement to production to goods issue, we will use concrete examples to show you how “connected logistics” can be used in conjunction with SAP S/4HANA to improve processes, simplify workflows or increase process quality.
The use of “smart solutions”, such as RFID tags, data glasses or even AI-based technologies, along the supply chain offers great digitalization potential. We will show you which concrete possibilities and usage scenarios there are in the processes of the pharmaceutical industry or medical technology using practical examples. These solution examples come from a wide range of process areas – from incoming goods, quality management, production or production logistics to shipping.
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September 17, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
Nonconformity management with SAP S/4HANA
A Life Sciences Alliance web session hosted by All for One ((in German language).
In this web session, you will learn how to use SAP S/4HANA to document deviations from internal processes and initiate a problem-solving process. By using embedded analytics and various cockpits from SAP QM, you can see the current status of your current problem-solving processes at any time.
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September 17, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
Processing of supplier complaints in the manufacturing industry with SAP QM
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One (in German language).
In this web session, you will learn how you can map the CAPA or generally a complaint process for externally procured items and services, with SAP S/4HANA. The integrity of the complaint processes is particularly emphasized here in this web session. Processes such as task management with connected notification service, service entries for additional internal efforts, supplier debits, the return delivery to the supplier, 8D request, and much more, can be executed centrally from a complaint. Analyses show you the current status of your complaint processing as well as data on specific KPI’s.
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August 5, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!5
Qualified purchasing in the pharmaceutical industry and medical technology with SAP Ariba and validated processes
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by All for One (in German language).
Do you want to digitize your purchasing process and increase efficiency in your purchasing department? Do you want new suppliers to be registered and qualified in compliance with your audit regulations in the medical industry in the future? Would you like your tenders to be of a higher quality in the future and purchase prices to be in line with the target prices you have set yourself? You also want the purchasing process to become more intuitive, faster as well as more efficient for your internal requesters?
In this web session, we showed you how a fully valid source to order process can look in the context of the pharmaceutical and medical technology industry in SAP Ariba. We took you on a digital journey into our live system where you could directly experience the processes described before.
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July 12, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
CAPA Process with SAP - Customer Complaints as an Integrated Component of Your Process Optimization
A Life Sciences Alliance webinar hosted by All for One (in German language).
In this web session, we showed you how you can map the CAPA process with the involvement of different activities of the respective departments in your company. Integrity was emphasized in particular. Processes such as action management with connected notification service, performance recording, rework on the product, rebookings from complaint processing, returns processing, 8D report generation, and much more, were executed centrally from a complaint. Analytics showed you the current status of your complaint processing as well as data on specific KPI’s.
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July 9, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
Integrated LIMS with QM in SAP S/4HANA (practical example from customer project)
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by DHC (in German language).
SAP QM is a full-fledged Laboratory Information and Management System (LIMS) and offers many advantages for your company; in this context, the complete integration into the logistical processes of the SAP system is the key to success.
The following quality-relevant processes are mapped here: Quality Planning, Sample Management, Inspection Processing, Deviation Management / CAPA, Quality Costs, Certificate Creation, Stability Studies, Supplier Release, Statistical Process Control (SPC).
In this webinar, we went through the implemented processes in a customer project and showed how SAP QM was used to implement an integrated solution in SAP S/4HANA.
You missed the web session or learned about it too late?
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June 18, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
SAP S/4HANA Deployment Optionen für die Life Sciences (Cloud vs. on-Premise)
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by DHC and SAP Switzerland (in German language).
The life sciences industry is facing the challenge of modernizing existing IT systems – including SAP in particular – and optimizing processes on a new platform in a future-oriented manner. Today, SAP offers a very comprehensive solution portfolio around S/4HANA, which is provided in various deployment forms in the cloud and on-premise. These deployment forms were considered in the webinar from the perspective of regulatory requirements in the life sciences.
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May 7, 2021 – Missed the web session? Then request podcast!
SAP Analytics Cloud - Strategic Reporting for Life Sciences Companies
A web session of the Life Sciences Alliance, hosted by OSC (in German language).
Operational decisions in a company should be made on the basis of well-founded key figures. In order to be able to generate this basis, solutions are required that enable the necessary functions for data collection, preparation and presentation. With SAP’s analytical product portfolio, the development of a strategic and operational reporting system for life science requirements can take place on-premise and in the cloud, thus contributing to the success of the company. In this web session, we used examples to show how such a modern reporting system can be implemented flexibly and efficiently.
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