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# **Inventory management software for R&D laboratories**
Centralize your reagents, consumables, and batches. Avoid stockouts, ensure the reliability of your tests, and guarantee the traceability required by your quality audits.
[**Book your free demo**](https://laby.io/demo) [**Contact us **→](https://laby.io/contactus)
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## **Why laboratory inventory management deserves better than Excel**
- ### **Locate quickly**
Laby lets you know the exact location of a sample without opening a single drawer or fridge. Everything is quickly accessible.
- ### **Order at the right time**
Laby shows out-of-stock items on your dashboard. It even generates a list of quantities to order by supplier.
- ### **React quickly in case of an incident**
An issue with a batch number? Laby tracks the complete history of tests performed, to ensure the quality of your R&D work.
## **Inventory location and traceability**
- Import and classify your stock from product families to items
- Manage your storage locations, from the building to the box
- Enrich your items with custom metadata
- Find a reagent using filters, keywords, or barcodes
[**Book your demo **→](https://laby.io/demo)
## **Regulatory compliance and QHSE**
- Track consumables from entry to exit
- Uniquely identify each reagent
- Link SDS and certificates of analysis to each item
- Enter GHS pictograms and hazard statements (H/P phrases)
- Export the chemical exposure list
[**Book your demo **→](https://laby.io/demo)
**The power of a LIMS, the flexibility of an R&D lab tool**
## **Inventory management integrated with R&D activities**
- ### **R&D Project Management**
Reserve batches for a project and track usage. Get financial valuations to manage budgets.
[**Learn more **→](https://laby.io/workflows/project-management)
- ### **Electronic Lab Notebook**
From the ELN, select or scan the items used and enter the quantities. Inventory is updated automatically.
[**Learn more **→](https://laby.io/solutions/electronic-lab-notebook)
- ### **Pilot Production**
Create your recipes and track the various steps involved in producing a batch until it is released into stock.
[**Learn more **→](https://laby.io/solutions/production)
## **Inventory linked to the R&D project**
- Reserve a batch for a specific R&D project
- Track quantities used from the lab notebook
- Automatically update inventory with each entry
- Calculate the cost of consumables per project
[**Book your demo **→](https://laby.io/demo)
## **Laboratory procurement**
- Define storage conditions, expiration dates, and thresholds
- Associate a supplier and a price with each listed product
- View stockouts and consumables below critical thresholds
- Export the list of reagents to order by supplier
[**Book your demo **→](https://laby.io/demo)
## **Feedback from R&D laboratories**
### **Cost saving**
> Before Laby, we were ordering twice without realizing it... Now that we have implemented the LIMS, we have significantly reduced our reagent purchases and have been able to consolidate orders by supplier.
_**Marie V.** R&D Director · Biotech_
### **Effortless auditing**
> During a quality audit, we were asked to trace the complete history of a batch. With Excel, that would have been impossible, but with Laby, we did it in 20 seconds. The auditor couldn't believe it!
_**Anne C.** Quality Manager · Pharmaceutical Company_
## **FAQ about Lab Inventory Management**
## **Laby, an inventory management system designed to save time**
- **Smooth organization**
- View reagents, locations, and related information (SDS, certificate of analysis, barcode, etc.).
- **Traceability and safety**
- Automatic, chronological history of stock movements from entry to exit.
- **Quality management**
- Storage conditions, expiration dates, hazardous products, exposure tracking, etc.
- **Restock**
- Dashboard to prevent stockouts and order the right quantities from suppliers.
**Our Solutions**
## **Experience a 360° view of your laboratory**
### **Electronic laboratory notebook**
Log all your experiments, files and analyses. Automate repetitive tasks and share your results.
[**More info **→](https://laby.io/solutions/electronic-lab-notebook)
### **Production**
Define the recipes and follow the different manufacturing steps to ensure traceability and robustness of the production process.
[**More info **→](https://laby.io/solutions/production)
### **Equipment and maintenance**
Manage and control the maintenance and reliability of the instruments used in the laboratory.
[**More info **→](https://laby.io/solutions/equipment)
### **Scientific bibliography**
Centralize scientific publications, create collections by theme or project and share knowledge with the team.
[**More info **→](https://laby.io/solutions/bibliography)
### **Timesheet**
Track the distribution of time spent to simplify project management, reports or administrative declarations.
[**More info **→](https://laby.io/solutions/timesheet)
### **Digital signature**
Protect each innovation by ensuring the anteriority and authenticity of the data at a given moment and by a trusted third party.
[**More info **→](https://laby.io/solutions/electronic-signature)
## Contact us
### **Contact**
Do you have any questions? We are here to help you
- Phone number
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[+33 09 63 53 28 81](tel:+33 09 63 53 28 81)
- Email
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[contact\[@\]laby.io](mailto:contact@laby.io)
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