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Intro.

Supply chains have always been business-critical but often operate behind the scenes.

But a new digital transformation [1] replace legacy connectivity technologies of electronic data interchange (EDI) with the Internet of Supply Chains (IoSC) [2]

Internet of Supply Chains (IoSC) links systems, processes, and people into a collective information network for intelligent business execution.

In the pharma industry, a magic quadrant is as follows:

First: SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences [3]

SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences is a cloud-based network solution that allows pharmaceutical partners to exchange drug serialization information securely and easily.

But a lot of SAP ATTP customers have a complicated landscape with interaction with many IoSC

For example: AmerisourceBergen (screenshot from [4]) connected to SAP ICH and Mediledger simultaneously.

Second: Tracelink [5]

Tracelink’s Life Sciences Cloud platform ensures compliance throughout the global life sciences supply network. TraceLink is a key part of the global pharmaceutical supply chain, with more than 440 pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesale distributors, hospitals, and pharmacies using the company’s SaaS solutions.

Third: Mediledger [6]

The MediLedger Network is the industry network 2.0 for the life sciences and healthcare industries, that runs solutions for real-time alignment, rule enforcement, and settlement of transactions directly between trading partners.

Fourth: Movilitas Cloud [7]

Movilitas.Cloud is a cloud-based platform hosting a group of tailor-made applications to enable companies to meet manufacturing, serialization, and reporting requirements.

We start a cycle of blog-posts about the integration SAP ATTP with Tracelink through SAP PO.

Business Scenario.

A pharmaceutical company (MAH)* places an order to CMO**.

*MAH - Marketing Authorization Holder

**CMO—Contract Manufacturing Organization. A company providing manufacturing, and sometimes packaging, services for one or more companies based on contracts or service agreements. Also referred to as a Contract Packaging Organization (CPO) or Third Party Manufacturer (TPM).

Business Step 1

MAH requests serial numbers with crypto-codes from government authorities.

Business Step 2

MAH creates a production order with GTIN, quantity, and a bundle with serial numbers and cryptocodes and sends it to CMO via IoSC TraceLink.

Business Step 3

CMO manufacture products and send information about labeling and aggregation via IoSC TraceLink to MAH

Architecture at a glance.

Diagram from my blog-post Compliance with SAP ATTP, S/4HANA and EWM. Technical details [7] enriched with a few additional blocks:

SAP PO [13] - IoSC TraceLink[14]

Architecture in some details.

Technical Step 1.

SAP PO(Process Orchestration) is an enterprise integration platform that provides seamless integration between SAP (SAP ATTP in our case and non-SAP applications (TraceLink in our case)

TraceLink accepts

SFTP and

AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) protocol [9]

To work with both protocols in SAP PO, Add-on installation is required [8], [10]