New SAP technologies: Causing rage or solving problems?

From today's perspective, the skeptical prognosis was wrong, and there is no record of a significant number of raving attacks. Nonetheless, rail transport has developed into an economic success story.

Break-free toothed orders

Why this historical excursion? To point out that, despite all due skepticism, technological innovations usually have considerable potential to make our lives better. By helping to find innovative solutions to real, resource-wasting problems. One example: doctors and pharmacists across Europe are currently warning of impending supply bottlenecks for hundreds of medicines - including important preparations such as antibiotics and insulins. In most cases, medicines with the same active ingredient or therapeutically equivalent medicines are available.

It therefore makes sense to clarify whether a required medicine is available or whether alternative bundles or replacement items are available before the ordering process. However, the materials management systems of many pharmacies are often unable to seamlessly dovetail this check and the desired orders. The new snapMSV3service provides the necessary digital networking between the merchandise management systems of pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and wholesalers. The cloud-based software model (SaaS) was developed on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and uses the standardized web-based MSV3 interface for data exchange.

As an independent component outside the IT systems of hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers, snapMSV3service-cloud is also available. The data is stored on servers within the European Union in accordance with the data protection rules of the EU GDPR. As mentioned at the beginning, the innovative use of current technologies - BTP, MSV3 and SaaS - can lead to new and precise solutions to burning problems.

SAP in hospitals

This is by no means an isolated case in the healthcare sector. This is demonstrated by our many years of experience in working with hospitals and university clinics. We began by integrating the industry-neutral SAP standard into hospital processes using add-ons.

Generic Healthcare Template

This resulted in the SAP Generic Healthcare Template (GHT), a specialized industry solution based on SAP MM, SD and PM, which maps the special requirements of materials management, pharmacy, catering and maintenance in hospitals and the healthcare sector. Even back then, we consciously used technological innovations to develop state-of-the-art solutions for our customers' pain points. Our success proved us right: after just a few years, 38 hospitals and university clinics as well as numerous industrial companies were already using SAP GHT, which we supported.

EU Counterfeiting Directive and Hana

With Hana, S/4 Hana and Fiori, in conjunction with new mobile devices, applications could finally be implemented that could be used from any location and were easy and intuitive to use thanks to modern user interfaces. New possibilities that we enthusiastically integrated - in requisition and pharmacy management as well as in the organization of hospital kitchens and catering. In the following years, regulatory changes such as the EU Falsified Medicines Directive came into force and additional approval processes had to be mapped in a legally compliant manner.

Think cloud-ready, use BTP

In short, there is no shortage of challenges, even in a special sector like healthcare. If you use technological innovations innovatively, they solve problems. That's what we decided to do at snap. True to the principles of thinking cloud-ready, using BTP in a user-oriented way and keeping the core clean. Others may bluster.

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