Real-Time Analytics and Benchmarking

Your R&D spend data, already organized. Network benchmarks, already calculated. Ready when leadership asks.

Turn your external R&D data into the insights that reduce risk, control spend, and inform category strategy.

WHO THIS IS FOR

R&D Operations and Procurement Teams Running Discovery and Preclinical Programs

This solution is built for teams that:

• Source specialized external capabilities for assays, screening, lead optimization, DMPK, and other preclinical studies
• Manage relationships with dozens of service providers and consumable suppliers without a unified system
• Need to onboard new suppliers faster than the current contracting process allows
• Lack real-time visibility into external R&D spend across services and consumables
• Want scientists focused on experiments, not on coordinating purchase orders and tracking invoices

THE PROBLEM THIS SOLVES

Procurement teams often work without the data they need.

Line-level visibility into study budgets, supplier rates, and vendor performance is frequently incomplete or missing entirely. Without it, critical analysis either doesn't happen at all — or gets attempted manually with whatever fragmented data is available.

The impact is real. Without structured data, procurement teams struggle to:

• Benchmark pricing across suppliers
• Identify consolidation opportunities
• Monitor preferred supplier usage
• Develop informed category strategies
• This is not a resourcing problem. It is a data problem.

Enter: intelligent analytics platform

HOW IT WORKS

From data fragmentation to strategic intelligence

• Supplier Performance Tracking

Monitor on-time delivery, quality metrics, milestone completion, and responsiveness across your entire supplier portfolio. Track how long projects stay open and where cycle times are trending, so bottlenecks surface before they affect timelines.

What you get: Identify top performers and address issues before they affect project timelines. Reclaim weeks of project time by catching delays early.

• Spend Analytics and Benchmarking

Real-time visibility into R&D spend by category, supplier, therapeutic area, and project. Benchmark pricing against network data from across the Science Exchange ecosystem.

What you get: Negotiate from a position of strength. Quantify savings opportunities with data, not estimates.

• Category Strategy Intelligence

Analyze spend patterns to identify consolidation opportunities, preferred supplier performance, and category optimization strategies.

What you get: Data-driven category management. ROI quantification for procurement initiatives.

• Custom Reporting

Science Exchange reports on the custom fields and data your organization configures in the platform. Pre-configured reports for leadership, finance, and audit requirements are available alongside data exports for deeper analysis.

What you get: Answer leadership questions in minutes, not days.

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT

Network intelligence beyond your own data

AI-Powered Pattern Detection

AI surfaces patterns and anomalies: flags pricing outliers, performance degradation, and savings opportunities automatically based on current network data.

The Data Moat

Decades of scopes, performance records, and pricing benchmarks from across the Science Exchange network. Compare your performance and pricing to industry standards that exist nowhere else.

Real-Time Dashboards

Live data updated continuously. No waiting for monthly reports or manual compilation.

Audit-Ready Reports

Pre-configured reports for regulatory submissions, internal audits, and financial reviews.

WHO WE SERVE

Designed for organizations at every stage

• Enterprise Pharma and Biotech For organizations with established R&D operations and complex supplier portfolios: streamline existing vendor relationships, standardize processes across teams and sites, and gain the spend visibility and benchmarking data needed to optimize category strategy at scale.

Key outcome: 6.5X faster project start times. Unified operations across hundreds of supplier relationships.

• Emerging Pharma and Small Biotech For teams running discovery and preclinical programs without dedicated procurement staff: get enterprise-grade compliance, spend visibility, and supplier access from day one, without enterprise complexity. Virtual Lab Manager provides dedicated procurement support so scientists can focus on the science.

Key outcome: 88% faster supplier onboarding. Enterprise-grade processes without the overhead.

PROOF

Data-driven procurement decisions

• 21% Cost Savings Identified through network benchmarking and spend analytics.
• Real-Time Visibility Budget tracking and spend analytics updated continuously.
• Performance Monitoring Track supplier metrics across your entire portfolio from a single dashboard.

Resources

Vendor Consolidation in Preclinical R&D: How to Cut Vendor Sprawl Without Cutting Capability What Procurement Owns When Science Is the Risk The BIOSECURE Act: How it impacts Biopharma purchasing

Turn supplier data into strategic advantage.

See how real-time analytics and network benchmarking can help your team answer the questions that matter, when they are asked.