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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.
Videos
Telematics Technology Comes to Life in Supply Chain Replica
We use this interactive supply chain replica to demonstrate the intersection of IoT and supply chain with real-time goods tracking and condition monitoring.
White Papers
10 ESG Data Challenges – and How to Manage Them
Explore the challenges companies face when acquiring data for ESG initiatives as well as solutions and best practices for overcoming these data challenges.
Videos
Climate75 – Reduce Impact and Achieve Compliance
Climate75 is a comprehensive emissions management solution that enables you to measure, monitor, manage and report on your environmental compliance data.
Case Studies
Global Life Sciences Company Improves Safety, Sustainability and Compliance with SAP EHS
Consulting services and transformation roadmap for integrated environment, health and safety management helps mitigate risk and improve safety.
White Papers
ESG’s Impact on Life Sciences and Healthcare
What are the ESG risks for life sciences and healthcare companies? How is the regulatory landscape changing? What role does technology play in ESG efforts?
Case Studies
Pharma Company Saves $500K and Reduces Delivery Delays by Boosting Forecast Accuracy
Automating master data management processes and streamlining policies and frameworks have improved data quality and increased supply chain visibility.
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.
