CISPro allows you to not only search and import MSDS and other vendor catalog documents, it also offers the ability to store those documents directly in the CISPro database, allowing you to store all your chemical safety-related documents in one place. These documents can be material specific, container specific, or size specific. Once the MSDS or document has been stored, it can be easily viewed with a single click.
- Single source simultaneous search and import of chemical vendor catalogs
- Combines complete catalog contents from top three chemical vendors
- Search and import from nearly two gigabytes of current vendor catalog data
- Eliminates need to have multiple windows open for different vendor catalogs
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In response to today's challenging economic environment, innovative companies deploy accurate, real-time solutions to support their activities. ChemSW's IMCS Live Instrument Maintenance and Calibration System is just such a a solution, allowing laboratories to schedule, track and report inspections on lab equipment, instruments, and any other fixed assets. A key feature is the ability to optimize equipment categorization, enabling users to:
- Easily define and bundle equipment into assemblies
- Easily reassign equipment to new assemblies while maintaining instant access to the correct calibration history records
- Address instrument systems as a whole set, or separate out the individual parts into different sets
- Define the process or assembly, designate different systems for different processes, and easily switch components between assemblies
- Attach research information, such as chromatograms or spectra associated with a particular column, instrument or component
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Biological materials are traditionally difficult to track because they vary greatly in size, storage, and information needs, and they are easily propagated. As a result, traditional chemical inventory approaches don't apply well to biological materials.
In addition, biologicals and chemicals have very different storage management needs.
Freezer sample management, for example, is challenging in the typical biochemistry lab. Restriction enzymes, cell lines, culture samples, active compounds all have different identifying characteristics, and in most cases the quantity is not relevant. Often a researcher simply wants to know which freezer box holds the enzymes they need ("Where can I find Hind-III?"), or where a cell line is located ("Where can I get a sample of human endothelial cells HDMEC?") -- not how much is on hand. Thus, the biologicals inventory system needs to accommodate not only traditional inventory functions found in chemical tracking solutions but also biological-oriented features.
ChemSW's Biological Materials Module addresses these issues.
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ChemSW is proud to announce the availability of new Waste Container Module for their CISPro Global and CISPro Live chemical inventory management systems that delivers in-depth detail about waste containers in inventory. With most inventory systems, only the waste container can be tracked. Now, with CISPro, not only can users to track the location of waste containers, but also the contents -- including the amount of waste dispensed into each container as well as remaining container capacity. Because the new Waste Container Module allows users to easily track waste container contents, it provides a simple, efficient, more accurate way to generate manifest information for waste removal. Whether the container houses solvent waste or inorganic waste, users now have absolute visibility concerning the contents of waste containers in inventory. Available now, the new Waste Container Module is resident in ChemSW's CISPro Global and CISPro Live chemical inventory systems and can be activated for a nominal charge.
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Chemical Inventory Management: Getting It Right
Success of a Laboratory Chemical Inventory System is Driven by User Adoption, Process Compatibility and Accurate, Real-Time Data
Get the Right Inventory in the Right Place at the Right Time
Effective inventory management of any kind involves getting the right inventory in the right place at the right time in the right quantity. Chemical inventory management focuses specifically on controlling the activities involved with chemicals used by the organization. Success requires more than implementing a system; it requires use. To ensure chemical inventory accuracy, your organization must control not only the processes, but also the users. Implementing best practices software technology is one way to ensure chemical inventory system user adoption and process compatibility.
Optimize Inventory Levels to Eliminate Duplicate Ordering and Disposal Costs
There are hundreds of often intricate inventory management processes that involve optimizing inventory levels, logistics and deployment, replenishment, disposition, and forecasting. Many organizations are tracking their chemical inventory on paper, or with a basic spreadsheet program, or with legacy in-house solutions. Unfortunately, these solutions typically can't provide accurate up-to-the-minute information. The result is often unnecessary, duplicate ordering and high disposal costs due to inefficient use of purchased materials.
Best Practices Enables Best Use of Materials
A best practices chemical inventory system addresses problems such as tracking, possession, and condition of inventory items, allowing the organization to make the best use of all chemicals in all facilities.
Features like bar-code labeling and tracking, remote inventory control and automatic email notifications are all part of a best practices solution that enables the organization to maintain accurate chemical inventory information in real- time. The downfall of many custom-designed systems is that they are difficult to use. As a result, accuracy and timeliness of chemical inventory data suffers. A best practices system is easy to learn, ensuring adoption and use.
To find out more about how you can implement the best practices discussed in this article, please request a complementary copy of ChemSW's white paper entitled Best Practices in Chemical Inventory Management, click here.
