Kaela Altman – ASUG

Kick-off each day with a message from your emcee.

Geoff Scott – CEO, ASUG
Mandar Paralkar – Head of Life Sciences Industry, SAP
Lloyd Adams – SVP and Managing Director, East Region, SAP

ASUG CEO Geoff Scott connects with Mandar Paralkar and Lloyd Adams from SAP to kick off the life sciences and health care virtual event. They will discuss some of the key challenges impacting the life sciences industry today, including data integration, supply chain strategy, and managing a global enterprise in today’s environment.

Nagarajan Nallaiah – SAP Technology Manager, Varian

Learn how Varian successfully upgraded its SAP S/4HANA landscape to SAP S/4HANA 1909. This presentation will cover the SAP S/4HANA business case, landscape architecture, and challenges faced during the conversion, lessons learned, experience with Fiori, and iRPA.

Sainath Kumar – Senior Managing Consultant, SAP Analytics, IBM
Satish Hiranandani – Client Partner, IBM

Walk through the journey of IBM enabling intelligent enterprises for a big pharma client, deploying end-to-end data science architecture with SAP HANA and open-source tools along with DevOps integration. Other tools used included Python, JupyterLab, Bitbucket, and Jenkins, which all aided in scaling and deploying operational AI solutions to utilize machine learning. The last piece to the intelligent enterprise puzzle was the enablement of agile framework to incubate and deploy use cases to enable intelligent workflows in finance and supply chain.

Programming will be paused for a short break.

Brooks Olphin – Process and Task Mining Manager, Johnson & Johnson

In their journey toward process excellence, business leaders are increasingly turning to process mining to gain transparency into their processes. But how do you decide where to implement and how do you scale? Learn how Brooks Olphin, process and task mining manager, successfully led Johnson & Johnson from proof of value to implementation and how he is supporting the growth of process mining within the company.

Michael Di Novi – Head-Digital Capability Management, ERP, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Sanmath Pudale – Lead Architect, SAP Platform, Bristol-Myers Squibb             

Learn about Bristol-Myers Squibb’s brownfield conversion of a global single instance from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA 1809 while relocating to Amazon Web Services. Learn about every phase of the project from early assessment and preparation to testing and go-live. Gain insight into the challenges encountered.

Dinesh Vandayar – Partner Manager, SAP Strategy and Architecture, Google Cloud
Nick Miletich – Senior Solutions Engineer, Managecore  

FFF Enterprises, Inc. has been a trusted name in wholesale pharmaceutical distribution for decades. After encountering outages and issues associated with running SAP on a legacy infrastructure and hosting provider, FFF Enterprises recognized the need for a change. It enlisted the help of​ ​Google Cloud and Google Cloud partner​ ​Managecore to migrate its SAP systems.

Managecore performed the migration to Google Cloud Platform, allowing the organization to run with improved availability and reliability for key SAP apps, including SAP S/4HANA, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Sales and Distribution, SAP Materials Management, SAP FICO, SAP Extended Warehouse Management, and more on Google Cloud.

Programming will be paused for a short break.

Max Mendez – Supply Chain Inventory Lead, Johns Hopkins

Inventory control at Johns Hopkins aims to optimize processes, making them more efficient and less labor intensive, while also yielding valuable information for informed business decisions to “deliver the promise of medicine.” New clinical protocols for personal protective equipment (PPE) resulted from COVID-19. Johns Hopkins will present its in-house manufacturing efforts and other initiatives to support the conservation of PPE. Hear how Johns Hopkins is approaching novel strategies to staff and patient safety.

Ryan Arsenault - Field Solutions Architect, SAP, Pure Storage
Damon Braly – Director, Pure Healthcare Solutions, Pure Storage

Health care supply chains stretch from R&D, to manufacturing, to hospitals, and ultimately to patients. They’re inherently complex and fragmented. But whether one is producing pharmaceuticals or medical devices, well-run SAP landscapes connect and simplify the extended health care delivery process for better outcomes. In this session we’ll review how one leading health care manufacturer improved its SAP ECC and SAP HANA infrastructure to accelerate time to market and support greater innovation.

Kaela Altman – ASUG

Tune in for a recap of the day.

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