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Life Sciences
Life sciences companies are eagerly embracing technology to digitalize and optimize their supply chain ecosystem, automate processes and enable data-driven decision-making, enhance collaboration, mitigate risk, improve governance, accelerate innovation, and ensure patient centricity.
Challenges
Key Challenges Reported by Life Sciences Leaders
92
Unreliable Data
87
Lack Visibility
30
Unexpected Delays
20
Lost Inventory
15
Compliance Issues
Solutions
Power the future of your intelligent enterprise and create unmatched business value with our transformative industry solutions.
Minimize risk, increase agility, enhance customer experience and reduce costs by leveraging digital systems, collaboration and automation, analytics and insights, and cognitive decision-making.
Create faster and smarter design-to-production processes, accelerate time to market, and extend asset life with manufacturing insights, connected assets, intelligent automation and digital quality.
Boost productivity and service levels by integrating disparate systems and data sources and rolling out AI-powered self-learning planning processes that improve forecasting and automate decision-making.
Deliver procurement value using a consulting-driven approach to enable process automation, strategic sourcing, spend optimization, supplier diversification, real-time collaboration and contract governance.
Realize incredible business value by transitioning to a truly digital enterprise – built on a modern cloud infrastructure, with an intelligent data and analytics strategy, that delivers a great customer experience.
Benefits
Our Life Sciences Solutions Drive Measurable Business Value
90
Decrease in Manual Logistics Tracking
30
Increase in Asset Utilization
29
Fewer Stockouts
10
Faster Inventory Turns
5
Improvement in Service Levels
Services
Thrive on change with our specialized digital transformation services spanning strategy, design and build, and implementation.
- Digital Consulting
- Analytics & AI
- Integration & Automation
- Modern Engineering
- SAP Solutions
- Platform Solutions
Accelerate your transformation by leveraging our assessment and advisory services, proven methodologies, proprietary accelerators and enablers, and change management expertise.
Put your data to work by tapping into our AI-powered analytics capabilities to unlock valuable insights, enhance visibility and enable smart data-driven decision-making.
Realize the incredible power of a connected enterprise by integrating and automating your systems, platforms, devices, sensors, apps, data, networks and cloud technologies.
Build and modernize your application and data landscape by engaging our proven expertise and enablers to enhance CX, transition to the cloud, and leverage data lake solutions.
Transform and modernize your SAP-powered intelligent enterprise. As a preferred SAP partner, we can position you for success with SAP S/4HANA, IBP, Ariba and Analytics.
Implement and integrate proven technology platforms into your digital framework to elevate your ERP environment and boost your operational agility, visibility and performance.
Testimonials
“I wanted to work with a partner that would come in and say ‘no, that’s a stupid idea, and maybe you should go down this path’ and challenge us to get to the right solution, and partner with us – where the rubber hits the road, not the conceptual 50,000-feet you-could-do-this – and that’s really the value that we get out of Bristlecone.”
Leon Trevett
Director, Illumina
“Bristlecone is a partner that helps us get smarter so that we can be more effective as a business.”
Gabe Peterson
VP, Varex Imaging
“The team is nimble and agile. They have been very responsive to the changes that we are coming across.”
Sri Kalluri
CIO, Cepheid
Accelerators
Through our proprietary, customized accelerators, we empower enterprises to leverage cutting-edge technologies to accelerate solution deployment, increase user adoption and maximize business value.
S/4NOW LIFE SCIENCES
Industry-specific SAP-qualified partner-packaged solution for SAP S/4HANA accelerates new deployments and conversions.
Industry-specific SAP-qualified partner-packaged solution for SAP S/4HANA accelerates new deployments and conversions.
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Fixed price, fixed scope.
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Proven framework.
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Best practice templates.
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Industry-specific process maps.
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Customized training materials.
TRACE.AI
Real-time customer order tracking and condition monitoring using an IoT-enabled tracking solution.
Real-time customer order tracking and condition monitoring using an IoT-enabled tracking solution.
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Leading indicators for ETA/EQA for multi-carrier tracking.
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Automation with ERP and TMS.
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Timely alerts on delays, missing assets, counts and performance.
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Location/movement visibility.
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Insights & Resources
Explore these resources to learn more about our work with life sciences companies.
White Papers
6 Critical Focus Areas for Procurement Success
Drawing from our extensive experience working with a range of organizations, we have identified six critical focus areas for procurement to achieve success.
Case Studies
Overwhelmed by 300K Annual Orders, Life Sciences Company Successfully Implements AI-Powered Tracking System
AI, ML, IoT, enterprise data and external insights provide an ‘eye in the sky’ view of the entire supply chain and the ability to monitor shipments in transit.
Case Studies
NuVasive Drives Procurement Excellence by Optimizing Buyer-Supplier Collaboration
Digital transformation is enabling global procurement operations to leverage an efficient, process-driven approach that enhances buyer-supplier collaboration.
Blog
Unique Supply Chain Challenges in the Life Sciences Industry
Digitalization of the life sciences supply chain, fueled in part by the pandemic, can help businesses work more efficiently and, in turn, improve patient outcomes.
Case Studies
Molecular Diagnostics Company Migrates SAP Applications to Modern Cloud Infrastructure
High-availability, cost-effective, scalable cloud infrastructure improves stability and performance and enables disaster recovery readiness for critical systems.
Case Studies
Medical Devices Company Leverages System Diagnostics, Optimization to Boost Efficiency
Diagnostics identified improvement areas in SAP ECC landscape, prompting optimizations that resulted in a 41% decrease in SAP HANA database size.
Blog
Breathing Life into Life Sciences Supply Chains with IoT, AI and ML
We’re working with a life sciences leader to digitally transform their supply chain and procurement processes and enable the tracking of shipments in real time.
