Technology Solutions

Life sciences companies face unique challenges. These range from global competition, to cost containment and the need to maximize IT applications use and performance to deal with business variabilities.

SmartAdvance™ Solutions have a solid proven track record to facilitate performance, comply with the strictest regulatory requirements and yet have the lowest cost of ownership in the industry.

SmartAdvance™

SmartAdvance™ Solutions are designed as modular, event-based enterprise software solutions that support the continuous improvement of manufacturing assets and operational performance. In contrast to ERP systems, which focus on historical transactions, SMARTADVANCE™ SOLUTIONS operate more like radar. They operate as a virtual cockpit that enables people across the manufacturing enterprise to access accurate, real-time operational information, and to use a common set of data and models to make faster, more profitable decisions.

SmartAdvance™ provide individual users with many key types of business capabilities :

• Active visibility into how their manufacturing assets are operating.
• Model-based decision support tools that provide detailed insight into thow the process is operating and is maintained under control
• Model-based decision support tools that provide detailed insight into how the cost, and risk structure of all key design and operating decisions within manufacturing.
• Capability of scorecarding techniques that provide plan versus actual information for a variety of key performance indicators (KPIs).
• The ability to drill down into the causal factors driving those KPIs and perform "what if?" analyses.
• Continuously improve operations
• Adjust dynamically to unplanned events
• Speed time-to-market though more effective collaboration and concurrent engineering
• Build and extend assets with minimum capital investments
• Manage their supply chains based on actual demand
• Reduce operating costs over the lifecycle of assets
• Comply with regulations
• Automate business processes seamlessly across functional groups
• Continuously optimize both long-term plans and short-term operations

Many manufacturers are increasingly implementing SMARTADVANCE™ SOLUTIONS to support their operational excellence because they automate critical business processes and provide a holistic view of interconnected operations across multiple facilities and business units. Managers are finding that SMARTADVANCE™ SOLUTIONS enable them to make faster, smarter decisions about all the parameters that impact operating margin and return on capital employed. Over time we believe that process manufacturers will unlock tens of millions of dollars of value through improved operational efficiencies by deploying SMARTADVANCE™ SOLUTIONS.

SmartAdvance™ will build on the applications companies use today

SmartAdvance™ Solutions build on the capabilities of stand-alone IT products by providing an increasingly integrated view of operations across the plant and enterprise. For example:

• A business unit leader will be able to make decisions based on accurate production information, and the whole organization will have access to real-time throughput data
• A chemical engineer will be able to immediately update his simulation model based on the real-time conditions in the plant
• A plant manager will be able to view changes to the demand forecast and make changes to the production schedule as business conditions evolve
• An operator will be able to monitor production cost under variable conditions.

SmartAdvance™ adds value to erp and to lims systems

Unlike ERP or LIMS systems, SmartAdvance™ Solutions will not require a total, full-scale implementation to be effective. Companies will be able to implement individual components over time in a modular fashion, focusing on the business processes and challenges that are most important to them. Each rollout will drive business value across a broad range of assets, and provide a significant return on investment. As these individual implementations are scaled and integrated, they will provide even greater visibility and value.