Advantage Business Systems - Finance And Business Intelligence Solutions For The Pharmaceutical Industry

A gold-certified Microsoft Business Solutions partner, Advantage Business Solutions has worked hand-in-hand with a number of well-known organisations, including Zeneus Pharma and Otuska Pharmaceuticals Europe, to help them meet the special demands of life science industries.

From pharmaceutical manufacturing companies to healthcare and medical device organisations, Advantage offers a solution based on the power of Microsoft technologies that will help reduce the cost of operations and regulatory compliance, while continuously improving business performance.

AUTOMATE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions) helps organisations integrate financial, manufacturing, supply chain, distribution, customer relationship management, and e-commerce data.

Microsoft Dynamics' complete and customisable business management solutions work with and like other Microsoft products that are well known by businesses worldwide. This means that people across organisations can use skills and products that they already know - like web browsers, Microsoft Office System products, and Microsoft SQL servers - to access and communicate information managed within their system.

MEETING KEY COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS IN THE LIFE SCIENCE INDUSTRY

Some of the business issues specific to the life sciences industry that a Microsoft Dynamics solution from Advantage can help you address, include:

• Controlling compliance costs
• Materials management and physical stock movement
• Time-to-market, the re-call of products and profitability pressures
• Access to real-time information on production processes
• Stock traceability through the entire supply chain
• Change management
• Automated quality control
• Serial, batch and lot number stock management
• Integrated bar-coding and RFID technologies for increased traceability
• Restricted sales

Microsoft Dynamics' solutions also meet key compliance requirements including:

• FDA including GxP and FDA 21 CFR part 11 - validation requirements, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), electronic signature and audit trails
• Adverse event reporting
• Document management
• ISO
• The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA, MDA, MCA)

BETTER BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

Microsoft Business Intelligence is about gathering data from across an organisation and presenting it in the appropriate format at the right time to the right people. Armed with this business intelligence, decision-makers can drive increased business performance at strategic, tactical and organisational levels.

The Microsoft Business Intelligence stack is built on the powerful end-to-end Microsoft SQL server platform, and delivered through Microsoft Office, providing a collaborative, integrated approach. Together, these technologies empower business users to make better, faster and more relevant decisions, driving tighter, more collaborative and integrated business processes.