Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Industry SAP Sales and Logistics Solutions
- TENON’s commitment
- The issues customers face
- Key points in solving issues
- Overview of our service
- Uniqueness and advantages
TENON’s commitment
Tenon provides solutions related to SAP ERP sales and logistics operations for customers in the pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing industries.
We provide ordering, shipping, and billing application functions specific to Japanese pharmaceutical and medical device industries, in the form of add-on solutions that conform to the standard functions of SAP ERP. We offer extensive experience in system linkage solutions that include EDI linkages with external warehouses and with industry-specific VAN services such as JD-NET and @MD-Net, and interfaces with in-house peripheral systems such as warehouse management systems (WMS) and forms systems.
The issues customers face
SAP has become the de facto standard for enterprise business systems in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. In addition, JD-NET is provided as a business standard for pharmaceutical product business transactions between pharmaceutical wholesalers and manufacturers, while @MD-Net’s VAN service is provided to support transactions between medical device sales dealers and manufacturers. Through systems such as these, business infrastructure surrounding the supply chain is becoming increasingly shared and efficient.
When implementing enterprise business systems in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, it is essential to prepare a system environment that meets these industry-specific requirements while also using standard functions of SAP.
Key points in solving issues
Conducting transactions via JD-NET and @MD-Net requires not only system linkage through EDI but also consideration of impacts on ordering, shipping, and billing operations in SAP.
Key points in considering solutions to address requirements that SAP standard functions alone cannot achieve include how to match industry transaction classifications such as “transaction category” with SAP form types, how to make statement of delivery note number match the industry-specific shikiri number, and how to achieve monthly billing processing such as monthly invoices.
Overview of our service
Our pharmaceutical and medical device industry SAP sales and logistics solutions provide add-on templates for the sales and logistics application functions that are essential to the use of SAP by manufacturers in these industries.
Pharmaceutical Sales Template (PST)
Medical device Sales Template (MST)
For company-specific requirements that the templates cannot cover, consultants with knowledge of SAP standard functions support the design and construction of solutions that conform to SAP standard functions.
The primary functions provided by the templates for the pharmaceutical industry and the medical device industry are as follows.
Pharmaceutical Sales Template (PST)
Primary functions for order management
- JD-NET order data I/F
- Cutoff time management
- Check for half-width kana characters in remarks
- JD-NET shikiri data retention
- Arrival-of-goods lead time determination
- Limitations on items that can be entered
- Regular shipping date determination
- Regular shipping date determination
- Urgent order category
- Designated shipping date determination
- Item block
- Out-of-stock list
Primary functions for shipping management
- Lot reversal check
- Shipping instructions file output
- List of imminent expiry items
- 6-line division of forms
- Shipping report upload
Primary functions for invoice processing
- 6-line division of forms
- Shikiri single slips
- JD-NET仕切書I/F
- Billing file output
- Shikiri forms
- Shikiri search
- Monthly invoices
Primary functions for inventory/warehouse management
- Warehousing report upload
- Warehousing schedule file output
- Inventory discrepancy list
Primary functions for master management
- JD-NET price communication I/F
Medical device Sales Template (MST)
Primary functions for order management
- MD-NET order data I/F
- Arrival-of-goods standard price determination
- Urgent order category
- MD-NET order data retention
- Item block
- Out-of-stock list
- Regular shipping date determination
- Order volume block
- Surgery date check block
- Designated shipping date determination
- Order authority block
- Data check block
- Cutoff time management
- Check for half-width kana characters in remarks
- MD-NET out of stock I/F
- Arrival-of-goods lead time determination
- Limitations on items that can be entered
Primary functions for shipping management
- Lot reversal check
- Shipping instructions file output
- List of imminent expiry items
- MD-NET shipping finalization I/F
- Shipping report upload
Primary functions for invoice processing
- Billing file output
- Shikiri single slips
- Monthly invoices
- Shikiri search
- Shikiri forms
- JD-NET shikiri I/F
Uniqueness and advantages
Since our inception, we have provided over 30 pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing customers with industry SAP solutions.
- Ability to perform short-time-frame implementation of SAP application functions, which are indispensable to sales and logistics operations in the Japanese pharmaceutical and medical device industries, as best practices
- Add-on templates that conform to SAP standard features, without modification of SAP standard features or add-on programs that change the behaviors of SAP standard features
- Ability to achieve JD-NET/@MD-Net total solutions that encompass an EDI system platform, by linking with our separately provided Pharmaceutical Industry JD-NET Solution and Medical Device Industry MD-NET Solution
- Support by a team of consultants with extensive SAP experience backed by industry and business knowledge when implementing templates and achieving company-specific requirements
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