Case Study: The Francis Crick Institute achieves £63k in potential savings with Advanced

The Francis Crick Institute partner with Advanced to boost their business

The Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical discovery institute, partnered with Advanced after several years of using the Advanced Cloud Marketplace and wanted to better understand catalogue efficiency, user behaviour, and spend patterns. Its challenge was to analyse a very large catalogue, track how 550 monthly users were raising more than 47,000 purchase orders a year, and uncover potential savings.

Advanced implemented its Catalogue Savings Report to analyse Marketplace data in depth and identify improvement opportunities. The project took only a few weeks and delivered measurable impact, including 540,000 duplicate items found, 60% of the catalogue categorised, and a potential saving of £63k, while also highlighting compliance gaps and helping improve supplier and catalogue quality.

The Francis Crick Institute

Nick Richmond-Smith

Head of Procurement