Case Study: Global Research-Driven Biopharmaceutical Organization achieves 25% improvement in sample management, greater efficiency and cost savings with STARLIMS

Starlims Biorepository Solution Helps Fortune 200 Company Boost Efficiency, Cost Effectiveness, and Increase Sample Management by 25%

The Global Research-Driven Biopharmaceutical Organization, a Fortune 200 company developing biologics, faced a fragmented sample inventory: legacy CambridgeSoft and Freezerworks systems, spreadsheets at individual repositories, no centralized tracking of biological samples, and limited visibility across sites. They needed a single, auditable platform to replace disparate tools and support complex business rules for sample access and approvals.

STARLIMS implemented its Biorepository/GBIS solution beginning in 2012 to centralize and integrate inventory, registration and reagent systems, enabling one searchable global inventory and automated approval workflows. By 2017 STARLIMS managed roughly 200,000 peptides, proteins, antibodies and cell lines, increased repository requests from tens to hundreds per day, boosted sample-management efficiency by about 25%, and supported the biologics pharmacy in processing over 10,000 requests (2015–2017), while reducing duplicate manufacturing, cutting shipping costs and eliminating lost samples.