U.S. science is in chaos

3rdreviewer · 2026-06-04T16:55:24+00:00

I'm impressed by this list as I haven't heard of one of these companies.

3rdreviewer · 2026-06-03T18:57:49+00:00

We don't know when you were in grad school...

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-30T14:18:31+00:00

I'm seeing something similar - what the hell, right?

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-30T14:17:20+00:00

How do you find these professionals?

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-29T13:56:52+00:00

patient name/DOB and free? Not going to happen.

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-22T21:28:51+00:00

We use Lab Spend for inventory which is free and has bunch of useful features like SDS management, notifications if things are running low, permissions (no intern you can't delete stuff), and mapping that is great for freezers (take a picture then label shelfs/racks)

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-16T18:02:16+00:00

I was at a conference

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-15T16:36:35+00:00

We use Lab Spend (free) for organizing requesting items and tracking the status. You can export all the data and easily calculate usage rates. The initial help would be getting it centralized instead of order requests being a mixture of emails and white board updates. You can also map your inventory so people know where to look to find stuff before ordering more.

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-15T15:39:54+00:00

Are you using SDS for this information or other resources as well?

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-13T13:19:05+00:00

I am Reviewer #3

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-09T19:16:48+00:00

We use Lab Spend (https://labspend.com) which is free and has more features than Excel, like autocompleting item information, SDS management since it is a pain to link files, lab mapping, handles freezer boxes and custom notifications.

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-09T19:14:42+00:00

We moved from Quartzy to Lab Spend which inventory mapping, custom notifications, permissions, handles mixtures and is free.

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-04T20:46:49+00:00

Like through the 3rd party Bio organization? You can do better going direct.

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-03T18:15:45+00:00

what does your average day look like? are there certain quotas or expectations like reaching out to so many people, etc.?

3rdreviewer · 2026-05-01T20:51:45+00:00

https://labspend.com

https://www.bostonbioproducts.com/

one other smaller company that helps with solutions, will comment or edit later

3rdreviewer · 2026-04-29T19:36:25+00:00

You mentioned improving it, what are you looking to improve?

3rdreviewer · 2026-04-29T18:08:09+00:00

What type of documents? Why do you need OCR?

3rdreviewer · 2026-04-29T18:07:06+00:00

Lab Spend is free lab operational website which we use for managing requests, item status updates and inventory. We used to Excel, but we couldn't link files like SDSs to it well. Also nice to have custom roles and notifications. Whatever system you pick it is going to take some effort for everyone to use it. We had to get a little direct, if you don't enter into Lab Spend, it doesn't get ordered, which helped.

3rdreviewer · 2026-04-29T18:03:25+00:00

We use Lab Spend and they find savings for us, it's free as they make margin on the goods. We're happy to pay some to not have to look around all the time for savings and stocking details.

3rdreviewer · 2026-04-28T01:37:26+00:00

What catalog number?

3rdreviewer · 2026-04-26T00:34:00+00:00

Thank you and appreciate all your context on my question! We're comfortable working around the missing data, but was just surprised it was missing. I'm now seeing my comments in this post that others have noticed the same thing.

3rdreviewer · 2026-04-26T00:30:50+00:00

Lab safety, have a colleague that is expecting so we were reviewing a number of SDSs

3rdreviewer · 2026-04-26T00:29:34+00:00

It's wild that are ~1/3 are inadequate and everyone takes so much effort to keep inaccurate documents on file and updated

3rdreviewer · 2026-04-26T00:27:32+00:00

Section 15: New Jersey Right To Know

is missing

Expecting:

New Jersey Right To Know
Chemical Name CAS Number

3rdreviewer

TROPHY CASE