Our 2nd webinar of 2025 focuses on consumable projection and management.
Key Topics Include:
- How consumables, such as reagents, play a critical role in ensuring the lab delivers results on time while also representing a significant portion of the lab’s budget.
- Proper management of consumables offers an opportunity for substantial cost savings.
- Consumables and reagents—such as solvents, reference standard materials, and other chemicals must be readily available to analysts to support a wide range of test methods. A shortage of these materials can lead to delays in performing tests, impacting the lab’s efficiency and
timeliness. - While the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) effectively handles several aspects of consumable management, focusing on compliance, expiration tracking, and inventory tracking, it does not support operational planning, consumption evaluation, or other critical functions.
- The goal of the Smart-QC consumable module is to bridge this gap by providing a comprehensive solution for managing the planning, operation, and consumption of laboratory consumables.
- The Consumable data set could be leveraged toward establishing a Cost of Quality module and further assess the cost of Testing.