Pharmaceuticals and biotech / Pharmaceuticals
Sanofi: Supporting management and research decisions
- Company
- Sanofi
- Country
- France
- Adoption stage
- In operation
- Source published
- Date basis
- The date the source was published. It can differ from the date adoption started.
- How the source was checked
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The work problem
At Sanofi, data in research and development, manufacturing and supply, and commercial was divided by department. Decisions that cut across departments, such as clinical trial design or portfolio judgement, needed material gathered in one place.
Technology and data
Sanofi introduced the internal app Plai together with Aily Labs GmbH. Plai gathers internal data from every department, makes it queryable in real time and shows the company's activity as a whole on one screen. It uses AI to produce timely insights and personalised what-if development scenarios that support judgement. Clinical operations teams use Plai during trial recruitment to check whether participant composition is sufficiently diverse. The portfolio strategy team uses Plai's forecasts and recommendations when deciding which therapies to focus on. Manufacturing and supply teams also use Plai for inventory planning.
Results
Sanofi said on its official page that 20,000 employees use plai every day. In its 2025 Form 20-F it wrote that more than 22,000 employees use Plai for everyday decisions. The company explained that in manufacturing and supply, probability based planning predicts 80 percent of inventory disruptions and links 65 percent of risks to a root cause.
Limits and open questions
The user numbers in the two sources differ, at 20,000 and 22,000. The official page carries no publication date, so which point in time it refers to cannot be confirmed.
Sources
- Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence | Sanofisanofi.com, Accessed
- 2025 form 20-Fsanofi.com, Accessed
Compiled from public sources. These are not results from ATF Works customers.