Unity Lab Services Experience

We take serving science seriously. Unity Lab Services provides a single source for integrated lab service, support and supply management. Our customized service offerings and world-class service experts have the fl exibility and experience to uniquely address your business needs. With more than a century of experience serving customers, Unity Lab Services Supply Management Services encompasses:

• More than 150 service clients

• Over 960,000 orders/year processed for Order Management service customers

• Inventory management programs handle over $60 million in inventory disbursements/year, managing over 29,000 SKUs, in 1000 points-of-stock daily

• Over 30 Material Handling programs, including Dock Management and Desktop Delivery, process more than 1.1 million packages annually

• Support services

✔ Mail Management handles over 390,000 pieces of mail annually

✔ Over 1,065,520 pieces of glassware managed per year

• 20 Consultants and Implementation Project Managers

• More than 300 service delivery specialists

Why Optimize Your Lab Supply Management?

Effective supply management involves creating an optimal balance between the need for researcher productivity and minimized expenses related to the procurement, movement and inventory of supplies. This balance means big savings for you!

• Increase researcher productivity

✔ Improved supply mix and availability

✔ Reduced wait times

✔ Reduced time needed to manage supplies

• Reduce purchasing costs

✔ Lowered administration costs

✔ Reduced product costs

• Reduce inventory management costs

✔ Reduced use of space

✔ Reduced inventory carrying costs

✔ Reduced loss and damage costs

✔ Improved cost accounting

Over the past six years, one customer

saved over $10 million across their

supply chain by partnering with

Unity Lab Services.

For pricing or additional information, contact your local Fisher Scientifi c Representative or the Representative below or visit www.unitylabservices.com.

FACT or FICTION?

As much as 50% of lab inventory is not needed.

FACT Based on a four-month study involving multiple labs, Unity Lab Services estimates that anywhere from 15 to 90% of inventory goes unused.

Using only a “Just In Time” inventory model is always best.

FICTION Where research is highly variable and supply demand is uncertain, having a better balance of inventory models can reduce overall costs.

Researchers can get distracted by managing their lab supplies.

FACT Researchers spend an average of over two hours a week ordering and putting away sup-plies. Also, they lose valuable time looking for supplies and meeting compliance issues.

There is always enough room in labs to store supplies.

FICTION Excessive supplies take up valuable lab space and create potential safety concerns.

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Keep your supplies moving with the right processes, tools and specialists

Dock Management – perform receiving and shipping, order verification, document handling, perform tracking against

customer requirements and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Delivery – deliver to lab or desktop, remove packaging, confirm and track receipt

Material Movement – manage movement of key items like samples around the facility, optimizing routes and other activities

Order Management Services

Create order management efficiency and lower product spend

Proven Processes

Purchasing Support

• Order entry

• Expediting

• Return goods and invoice management

Requisition Review

• Analyze orders

• Locate cost-effective source

• Order consolidation

Integrated Procurement

• Find right product and right supplier

• Requisition product within same ordering process

Specialized Reporting

• Summary invoicing

• MSDS and Certificates of Analysis

Trained specialists can work within the customer systems as well as Thermo Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services systems. Our multiple backup coverage model provides service during vacation, illness or turnover.

Inventory Management Services

The right supplies, in the right location at the right time = effective inventory management

Proven Processes

• Inventory Planning

✔ Assess stocking design and requirements✔ Identify critical products and determine minimum

levels

• Inventory Management of stockrooms, common

stock areas and/or points of use

✔ Implement control processes✔ Receive, put away, inventory, cycle count, de-trash

and reorder✔ Institute special handling processes (e.g., ethyl

alcohol management)✔ Report key performance indicators (service levels,

turn rates, etc.)

Experienced Staff

• Inventory and supply management services skills

• Coverage to provide continuous service during

vacation, illness or turnover

Technology

• Requisition and Inventory Management System

(RIMS) proprietary software

• System Features

✔ Remote processing capabilities✔ Multiple transaction processing✔ Minimum re-order points✔ Backorder allocation✔ Requisition management✔ Bar coding capabilities✔ Real-time inventory information✔ Import/Export capability

Unity Lab Services Site Specialists

• Trained to handle and move materials safely

• Scheduled to provide continuous service during

vacation, etc.

• Familiar with customer systems and procedures, such

as chain of custody requirements

Technologies and Tools

• Tracking tools

✔ Bar-coded supplies and delivery locations — ensure control and delivery traceability

• Reusable totes

✔ Used for de-trashed supplies

• Carts

✔ Consolidate and deliver all the supplies needed for specific activities

Creating the Optimal Balance for Increased Research Productivity and Lower Supply Chain Costs

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