Biotech and CRO enterprises are facing increasing financial, operational, and globalization complexities. Building a compliant, efficient, and integrated management system through digitalization has become a critical issue in the industry’s transformation and upgrading.
In today’s complex business environment, Biotech (biotechnology) and CRO (Contract Research Organization) companies face operational challenges far beyond those of general enterprises. This places extremely high demands on the professionalism and adaptability of digital systems. At the same time, they must address multiple challenges such as cross-border operations, global finance, project management, GxP compliance, and regulatory governance.
With its cloud-native architecture, Oracle NetSuite Cloud ERP, featuring comprehensive, integrated, and global capabilities, is becoming the preferred digital transformation platform for an increasing number of innovative pharmaceutical and life sciences enterprises.
Oracle NetSuite is a leading cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
Oracle NetSuite is an AI-driven business management suite that covers ERP, project management, CRM and e-commerce, BI analytics, global financial management, and a development platform (PaaS), forming a complete integrated cloud solution. It serves more than 42,000 customers across over 200 countries and regions, making it a reliable choice for digital transformation in the life sciences and biotech industries.
As Oracle NetSuite’s strategic partner in China’s biopharmaceutical industry, Melin has jointly launched industry-specific solutions covering the full lifecycle of Biotech and CRO enterprises. These solutions help enterprises achieve integrated, refined, and sustainable management systems across all stages from R&D and clinical research to commercialization. The solutions are further optimized and extended to meet the differentiated management needs of various sub-sectors:
For Biotech enterprises, NetSuite ERP focuses on global financial management, multi-project parallel management, global financial compliance, and clinical-to-commercialization collaborative operations, building a full-lifecycle digital platform from R&D to上市 (market launch).
For CRO enterprises, Oracle NetSuite Cloud ERP focuses on global financial management, project cost control, FTE management, contract execution, and GxP compliance, creating an efficient, auditable, integrated project and financial management system.
These two industry-specific solutions comprehensively cover key management scenarios from early research and clinical stages to commercialization, empowering next-generation biopharmaceutical enterprises to achieve high-quality growth that is both fast and stable.
“Oracle NetSuite + Melin” Biotech Digital Management Solution
With the rapid development of Biotech enterprises and increasing R&D investment, achieving efficient collaborative management across R&D, clinical research, and commercialization has become the core of digital transformation.
“Oracle NetSuite + Melin” jointly provides a full-lifecycle digital management solution for Biotech enterprises, covering R&D to commercialization, empowering innovation-driven growth and supporting global expansion.
Global Financial Management and Intelligent Decision-Making to Drive Rapid Expansion
Supports multi-currency, multi-accounting standards, and multi-entity financial management, building an integrated global business-finance collaboration platform to ensure cross-border compliance and financial transparency. Built-in BI analytics tools provide personalized reports and multi-dimensional dashboards to support precise decision-making for R&D, project management, sales, and finance teams, driving continuous optimization and growth.
Full Coverage of R&D, Clinical, and Commercialization Stages to Accelerate Innovation
From drug discovery and preclinical research to IND submission, NetSuite ERP connects experimental design, progress, resources, and costs through a unified project management platform, enabling full-process visualization and real-time collaboration of R&D workflows.
Efficient Clinical Research Execution and Precise Risk Control
Provides full lifecycle project management for clinical trials, integrating task assignment, milestone control, resource allocation, and cost management. Supports multi-center and multi-department collaboration and regulatory compliance, ensuring steady progress of clinical research and effective risk control.
Financing and IPO Enablement with Industry Compliance Frameworks
Automated financial accounting and multi-dimensional cost analysis meet stringent audit and investor requirements, improve capital utilization efficiency, and support Biotech enterprises in financing and IPO preparation.
Commercialization Readiness and Comprehensive Go-to-Market Enablement
Deep integration of CRM and sales systems, covering contracts, orders, channels, and expense management, enables full-process customer and partner management. Through demand forecasting and supply chain optimization, enterprises are empowered to successfully launch products and maximize commercial value.
“Oracle NetSuite + Melin” CRO Integrated Management Solution
Oracle NetSuite ERP provides an integrated management platform that connects global financial management, CRM/sales management, project management, supply chain management, project cost accounting, and group financial management, achieving enterprise-wide data integration rather than siloed departmental systems.
Multi-Ledger, Multi-Currency Global Group Financial Architecture
Supports multi-currency, multi-accounting standards, and multi-entity financial management systems, enabling automatic global financial reporting, compliant local accounting, and project-level financial penetration analysis, laying a solid financial foundation for global expansion strategies.
Integrated Online Quotation and CRM Management
Designed for the complexity of CRO projects, the system integrates six core elements: research protocols, milestones, tasks, resources, internal pricing, and payment schedules, building a closed-loop system of online quotation, intelligent approval, and payment milestone linkage—making quotations more compliant, communication smoother, and execution more controllable.
End-to-End Project Lifecycle Management
With projects as the core management object, the system connects project initiation, budgeting, procurement, execution, and settlement, enabling online collaboration, tracking, and feedback for tasks, resources, schedules, materials, timesheets, and costs, significantly improving management visibility and execution efficiency.
Multi-Dimensional Collaboration and Supply Chain Integration
Project planning is linked across clinical, procurement, and finance functions, enabling task coordination and data interoperability. At the same time, external partners are integrated to ensure clinical trials and raw material supply processes are controllable, efficient, and transparent.
Refined Project Cost Accounting Model
Provides refined project cost accounting, automatically aggregating raw materials, labor, and various expenses, with intelligent allocation based on predefined rules. Month-end one-click closing enables transparent project costing, automated accounting, and refined profitability management.
Representative Client Cases
Melin has extensive industry experience in the biopharmaceutical sector and has served hundreds of enterprises, including Tigermed,Brii Biosciences, Frontage ,Sirnaomics ,AusperBio, Connect Biopharma, ProfoundBio, Levena biopharma.
Through in-depth consulting and implementation services, Melin helps clients build a digital management system centered on global business-finance integration, project-centric operations, and compliant, auditable governance. This not only supports clients in achieving efficient and stable growth in complex external environments, but also continuously refines industry solutions in practice—driving mutual growth with clients and the industry as a whole.
