$260,000+
Total time savings across procurement and finance.
250+ Hours
Returned to scientists previously spent on ordering and tracking.
40% Fewer POs
Processed overall due to multi-supplier carts and consolidated billing.
98 Suppliers
Centralized into ZAGENO for streamlined ordering and management.
Pillar 1: Accelerated discovery and research productivity
The result: 250+ hours returned to science
Challenge = Time loss. Scientists lost valuable time comparing supplier websites, tracking shipments via email, and resolving backorders, interrupting critical research.
ZAGENO's single-platform marketplace solved this by putting everything the lab needed in one place:
- Massive marketplace: Instant access to 40M+ SKUs across 5,000+ lab suppliers in a single AI-driven, searchable platform.
- AI-driven comparison: Real-time product availability, lead-time estimates, and side-by-side comparisons enable fast, informed decisions.
- Centralized tracking: Eliminating vendor-specific logins, ZAGENO provides one place for order and shipment tracking from requisition to delivery.
- Faster solutions: When a material is on back order, the scientist can instantly switch to an available supplier, ensuring the research stays on track.
“We were all really excited to get a platform like ZAGENO off the ground. It helped us centralize purchasing consumables and individual reagents.”
— Jessica Meinke, Senior Scientist, Apogee Therapeutics
Pillar 2: Automating finance and procurement workflows
The result: 40% reduction in POs processed overall
Challenge = Redundancy. Separate POs were generated for every individual supplier in a multi-vendor order, creating massive redundancy and slowing approval times.
ZAGENO’s multi-supplier cart consolidated all items into a single requisition, with one transaction automatically flowing into the finance system and streamlining the process:
- One transaction, many items: ZAGENO's multi-supplier cart lets lab staff shop across 5,000+ suppliers but generate only a single requisition for approval and reconciliation.
- Zero manual entry: Automated data transfer ensures that clean, approved order data flows directly from ZAGENO to Apogee’s NetSuite ERP system.
- Instant budget control: Purchases are automatically routed with pre-configured cost centers, eliminating manual errors and accelerating compliance checks.
“Our invoice and PO volume for lab supply vendors has drastically decreased, resulting in a much more streamlined review process for both Finance and our R&D team.”
— Eric Jain, Executive Director and Controller, Apogee Therapeutics
Pillar 3: Painless supplier consolidation & management
The result: $60,000+ in time savings from enhanced supplier management alone
Challenge = friction. Onboarding and managing a rapidly growing list of vendors consumed excessive hours from both the finance and procurement teams.
ZAGENO's platform centralized the entire supplier ecosystem, translating vendor management into real financial savings through automated supplier consolidation, offloaded onboarding, and ongoing supplier management.
- 98 suppliers centralized: The administrative burden of managing nearly 100 suppliers was immediately simplified.
- Offloaded onboarding: The burden of vetting, setting up, and maintaining vendor data was moved from Apogee's team to the ZAGENO platform.
- Best-price access: Centralized comparison and real-time pricing ensure scientists can always access the best available price across their entire vendor base.
“Previously, vendor setup could take days or weeks. That has been resolved. Now they can order whatever they want from whoever they want at the best price.”
— Sara Buscemi, AP Specialist, Apogee Therapeutics
Pillar 4: Audit-ready spend visibility and control
The result: Unified procurement data for financial rigor
Challenge = Scalability and compliance. Legacy systems lacked the rigor and real-time visibility needed for strong financial controls and public-company readiness.
ZAGENO provided the robust, audit-ready foundation for R&D spend by acting as the central source of truth:
- Single data source: ZAGENO provides clean, centralized R&D purchasing data that is directly integrated with Apogee's financial system.
- Enforced policy: Guided buying workflows ensure that all purchases are compliant with internal budgets and purchasing policies before the order is placed.
- Scalable architecture: The platform provides the scalable architecture and controls necessary for a fast-growing biotech preparing for major milestones.
- Real-time oversight: The platform gives leadership real-time visibility into all R&D spend and purchasing activity, providing a complete, compliant audit trail.
“Using ZAGENO shows how many lab supplies and consumables we've been ordering on a monthly or quarterly or annual basis, and that'll help inform our budget for future years.”
— Eric Jain, Executive Director and Controller, Apogee Therapeutics
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About ZAGENO
With over 50M+ product SKUs available from more than 6,000 leading brands, ZAGENO offers the largest life sciences lab supply marketplace. Our one-stop-shop solution helps scientists, lab managers, and Biotech and Pharma procurement leaders compare products across vendors, easily source product alternatives, track deliveries, and communicate order status with R&D teams in real-time. ZAGENO makes online shopping for any research material convenient, efficient, and reliable.
