By industry · Pharma

Clean, governed spend for regulated pharma procurement.

Pharma buys APIs, excipients, packaging, and lab and CRO services across regulated sites and scattered systems. Mithra unifies it into one validated, AI-ready view, with price-variance insight and a full audit trail.

Opportunities
Identified value3.14M
Realized value520K
OpportunityStageIdentified
Excipient price varianceSame grade · 5 sites · €2.40 vs €3.60 per kg89% confidence
In review
910K
Lab consumables consolidationFragmented tail · 180 suppliers across sites92% confidence
Accepted
740K
"Misc. GMP services" reclassifiedCatch-all bucket broken out into real categories71% confidence
Identified
680K
Primary packaging price varianceSame component · 3 sites · 13% spread86% confidence
In execution
480K
The pharma reality

Regulated and indirect spend, scattered across systems.

Pharma procurement spans regulated direct materials and a long tail of indirect spend, split across ERPs, sites, and qualified-supplier lists. Catch-all buckets hide categories, the same supplier appears many ways, and cross-site price comparison is near impossible, all while every decision has to stand up to audit.

Catch-all buckets

"Misc. GMP services" and "Lab other" hide real, comparable categories.

Duplicate suppliers

The same qualified vendor recorded a dozen ways across sites.

No cross-site pricing

No way to compare what each site pays for the same material.

Audit pressure

Every classification and decision must be explainable and traceable.

How Mithra delivers

One validated view, across every site.

Mithra classifies regulated and indirect spend against a procurement-native taxonomy, resolves the supplier base, and surfaces price per material across sites, with evidence and an audit trail behind every line.

  • A validated baseline taxonomyAI proposes the structure; your team validates it in weeks.
  • Reclassify all spendDirect materials and indirect tail, classified at high accuracy.
  • Average, highest & lowest priceThe same material across sites and suppliers, side by side.
  • Governed & auditableReason codes, confidence, and a full trail on every decision.
Supplier A · Site IEMicrocrystalline cellulose · Ph.Eur
€2.40/kg
Lowest
Supplier B · Site CHMicrocrystalline cellulose · Ph.Eur
€2.85/kg
Average
Supplier C · Site DEMicrocrystalline cellulose · Ph.Eur
€3.10/kg
Average
Supplier D · Site INMicrocrystalline cellulose · Ph.Eur
€3.60/kg
Highest
Outcomes for pharma

Spend data that stands up to audit.

Catch-all buckets, solved

Vague GMP and lab groups become a clean, granular taxonomy.

Negotiation, aimed

Price per material across sites backs every supplier conversation.

One supplier view

Qualified vendors resolved to a single, deduplicated master.

Audit-ready

Every classification carries evidence, confidence, and a trail.

Built for regulated procurement

Controls your quality and IT teams expect.

Mithra meets your data where it lives and keeps it under your controls, so adopting spend intelligence doesn't open a new compliance question.

  • Data stays in your environmentSecure connectors and regional hosting options.
  • SSO & role-based accessEnterprise access control across sites and teams.
  • Human-in-the-loop reviewAgents propose; your team validates and approves.
  • Full audit trailEvery action logged and traceable for review.
See security & governance

Any source

ERP, P2P, LIMS exports, SFTP, and flat files, no rip-and-replace.

Multi-site

One standardized view across plants, regions, and entities.

Explainable

Reason codes and confidence on every classification.

Always current

The taxonomy maintains itself as products and sites evolve.

Ready to clean up your pharma spend data?

We'll show you what Mithra finds in your own spend, from a validated taxonomy to cross-site price comparisons, in weeks.