It should be configurable, scalable, and intuitive enough that everyone in your lab, from assistants to the principal investigator, can learn to input and interpret data with minimal training. Almost immediately, it transforms your chemical inventory from an afterthought to a real-time research tool that saves time, resources, and other troubles. How you manage your chemical inventory—the building blocks of research—has the potential to make or break your budget. Second, when the chemical inventory system was implemented, new procedures were also implemented to ensure that all chemical transactions were processed through the system. In this case, however, the ownership confusion centers on who is responsible for chemical inventory reports.
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