The wealth of up-to-date information contained within the PharmaTouchStone database can be used to measure other important factors affecting market prices and market share.

It is possible, for instance, to monitor the number of distributors supplying a given product, over a period of time. As well as acting as a warning that rival operators may have entered new sectors of the market, rapid changes in the number of suppliers, linked with significant swings in the frequency of price observations, may be an important pointer to the general level of stock availability in the market-place.

Regarding prices, other available reports illustrate more general changes in product prices over time, and compare either average, minimum or maximum prices observed in the market, for a given product or range of products.

When price trend analysis of this sort is allied with the observations of supplier activity referred to earlier, it often presents even stronger indicators to the PharmaTouchStone user, of the commercial factors influencing current market behaviour and likely future developments.

As with all reports available from within PharmaTouchStone, a series of user-specified filters can be utilised, in order to make the results of any given enquiry as detailed or as general as is required.