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As ERP applications go to the web and user work in Internet Explorer to perform MRP data entry and inquiry routines, we think it would be worth to describe common scenario

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

s of implementing Microsoft Business Portal for Dynamics GP. We suppose that your company has several hundred employees, who potentially may use Business Portal. The adv

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ntage of having these people use BP versus work in Microsoft Dynamics GP directly is licensing cost. If your company is smaller in size, then you should evaluate BP deplo

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

yment, in our opinion at this time BP requires strong Microsoft oriented IT department, familiar with such technologies as SQL Server, Sharepoint, .Net C# programming, GP

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

eportWriter, FRx reporting, hosting in extranet environment secured BP server, MS Exchange

• Requisition Management. If potentially all your office employees are creatin

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

purchase requests: computers, furniture, office supplies, etc – RM is the module for you to implement. It has pretty flexible approval hierarchy structure where you can

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

submit purchase request to your approver, approver might be changed by purchase approving management, if desired (direct approver takes two weeks off situation, or the lik

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

). When you will be doing implementation, you will figure out that RM and Dynamics GP are actually two “separate”, however integrated applications, so, when you do query

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

n BP RM on the whole Requisition life cycle, starting with creation and then approvals, transferring to Purchase Order (which is now in GP), Receiving and Paying off the v

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

endor invoice. This means the report or life cycle query should be designed as cross-modules and as such directly in MS SQL Server, linking your company DB with DYNAMICS

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

b (where RM tables reside for BP 3.0)

• HR and Employee Self Service. If you implement Payroll or HR or both PR & HR for you Microsoft Dynamics GP, then extending this w

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

th BP Humane Resources Management Self Service Suite might be natural extension. Here you people could update their personal information including W-4, request vacation

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

(if you have MS Outlook extension for BP HR – they can do it directly in Outlook). Also, if you have contractors in staff, they will be able to submit their hours (howeve

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

not associated with projects, be realistic here in expectations – you need Project Accounting and TimeCard & Expenses Entry extension for BP – this is different module of

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

BP). If you have technicians in the repair shops, this might not be very good idea as BP requires Active Directory user login to access BP.

• Order Management. If you s

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

ell to your relatively narrow set of permanent customers and you can maintain relatively compact catalog of your product, you may benefit in implementing OM module. Here,

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

you should know upfront, that customers require Active Directory login and Customer ID in GP in order to place the order. If you plan customer orders to be placed by your

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

Sales People, then this is not the case. Active Directory setup for your customers requires you to enforce IT security and support extranet environment

• Backup Scenario

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

. BP GP modules store their data in DYNAMICS and Company databases. Probably these modules are predecessors of the future GP modules transformation from Microsoft Dexter

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ty to .Net. So, besides Sharepoint backup – you will simply need the above mentioned DB backup in regular fashion – either as scheduled SQL job or included in tape backup

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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