By Roja Azees, Senior Product Manager, Lab Management Tools, Connected Lab, Merck KGaA Dr Haydn Boehm, Head of Commercial Marketing, Connected Lab, Merck KGaA
Published in: Pharmaceutical OnLine / Millipore Sigma
Published on: November 10, 2024
Maintaining detailed records of reagents is an essential part of maintaining scientific rigor in research. The systems used by the scientific community in documenting and managing this information, however, can be highly administrative, tedious, and surprisingly prone to errors. So, for many labs, reagent record management consists of routine, repetitive tasks involving manual data entries for each of, perhaps, hundreds of chemicals, solutions, and other consumables used in large, bustling life science laboratories. On the surface, spending a few minutes locating a reagent or manually documenting its details may be perceived as insignificant, but what remains largely overlooked is the resulting time sink that diminishes the laboratory’s overall performance. Here, we discuss the main inventory management challenges faced by fast-paced biotech and pharmaceutical laboratories, highlighting how this directly impacts research outcomes, costs and regulatory compliance.
