Products
MDL® Discovery Framework
  MDL® Discovery Experiment Management
   MDL® Select
   Symyx® Notebook
 
#  Biology
   MDL® Report Manager
   MDL® Assay Explorer
   MDL® Plate Manager
   Symyx® Notebook
 
#  Chemistry
   MDL® Report Manager
   MDL® ChemBio AE
   MDL® Registration
   Symyx® Notebook
 
#  Logistics
   MDL® Available Chemicals Directory
   MDL® CIMS
   MDL® Logistics
   MDL® Reagent Selector
   MDL® Screening Compounds Directory (formerly ACD-SC)
MDL® Discovery Knowledge
MDL® Discovery Predictive Science
Home > MDL® Discovery Experiment Management > MDL® Logistics
 
Discovery Experiment Management
Key Features
System Requirements
How to Buy
MDL® Logistics | Printer Friendly    
MDL® Logistics is a complete Isentris-based solution for managing the reagent procurement and inventory process in your organization. It leverages the MDL® Available Chemicals Directory — the world's largest electronic collection of chemical supplier catalogs, the in-house inventory, the OHS Pure Substance database — a hosted electronic encyclopedia of product safety information and Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and the OHS EH&S Data Elements for risk and saftey phrases and hazard class information. MDL Logistics integrates with various financial business systems and laboratory hardware devices, which increases the value of the investment by providing employee time savings and productivity gains. Out-of-the-box regulatory management capabilities can be leveraged to help reduce costs associated with ensuring compliance. MDL Logistics is the successor of MDL® CIMS and MDL® SMART.
Customer comments on MDL Logistics

"With the increasing number of reagents and intermediates managed by Boehringer Ingelhiem, it is critical that users have access to a reagent management system that streamlines the ordering and procurement process by reducing errors, preventing duplicate ordering, and providing side-by-side access to internal reagents. MDL Logistics allows us to manage internal stores and commercial catalogs effectively, while also providing seamless intergration with SAP which is transparent to the end user." — Dr. Gerhard Mihm, Boehringer Ingelheim
Click to Enlarge
Click to Enlarge

Chemically-intelligent reagent sourcing

Research scientists can:

  • Conduct structure and/or data searches to retrieve compound availability from both the internal inventory and commercial suppliers
  • Select compounds to order & submit purchase requests
  • Request compounds from internal stores and stockrooms
  • View safety information
  • Perform list management, including list logic
  • Configure user-specific purchase information such as preferred suppliers, cost center, project number, site location, and delivery preferences
  • Save queries, lists, and shopping carts
  • View, register, check-in, check-out, transfer, edit, and dispose containers
  • Export desired compounds to Excel, SDfiles, ISIS lists, and Isentris lists

     
     
Click to Enlarge
Click to Enlarge

Comprehensive inventory management

Reagent management personnel can:

  • Perform automated reconciliations of the inventory using standard barcode scanning equipment
  • View, register, check-in, check-out, transfer, edit, and dispose containers
  • Track weights using integrated laboratory balances
  • Print barcodes by user, group, location, or command
  • Receive orders, including partial orders
  • Fulfill requests made to any stockroom
  • Print delivery sheets, including barcodes
  • Set expiration dates
  • Create standard reports in Microsoft Excel
  • Track and view preferred storage conditions
  • Audit the inventory
  • Configure look-up data fields, such as chemical class and container type
  • Create purchase orders
  • Assign company preferences, such as preferred suppliers

     
     
Click to Enlarge
Click to Enlarge

Superior tools and content to support EH&S

Environmental Safety and Health personnel can:

  • Control access to hazardous or highly regulated substances
  • Present warnings, flags, and messages to users handling or purchasing hazardous substances
  • Set amount thresholds
  • Send email notifications when certain compounds are requested or ordered
  • Provide instant access to hosted (M)SDS information in Internet Explorer
  • Provide access to regional-specific R&S phrases and hazard class data
  • Create reports for various regulatory agencies

     
     
Click to Enlarge
Click to Enlarge

Integrate with financial business systems

Purchasing professionals can:

  • Direct spend management by leveraging preferred suppliers and contract pricing
  • Integrate existing purchasing systems with the Logistics client, saving valuable time and reducing errors
  • Create purchase orders
  • Create various reports about purchase history and inventory tracking in Microsoft Excel

     
     
Click to Enlarge
Click to Enlarge

Perform system administrative tasks in a graphical user-interface

System administrators can:

  • Configure look-up data fields
  • Set up a hierarchies containing thousands of inventory locations
  • Assign company preferences, such as preferred suppliers
  • Set system timeouts and create administrative messages
  • Create security groups in order to control access to application functions and data sources

Additional Info

Industry 'Best Practices' for logistics solution (PDF)

MDL Logistics 'best-in-class' solution (PDF)

MDL Logistics datasheet (PDF)

MDL Available Chemicals Directory datasheet (PDF)

Current List of Suppliers (PDF)

 
What's New
 
Events:
 
18-May-08
Symyx Global Symposium 2008: R&D Integration Success
 
22-May-08
Break through in-house capability constraints with Symyx Life Science Research services
 
28-May-08
The impact of automation on the efficiency of laboratory sample preparation and analysis
 
 
Press Releases:
 
28-Apr-08
Symyx Unveils New Enterprise Electronic Laboratory Notebook
 
22-Apr-08
Symyx to Bring Together Industry Leaders for Symposia to Discuss Future of R&D Integration
 
07-Apr-08
Symyx Unveils New Parallel Fixed Bed Reactor
 
 
Related Courses:
 
Managing Regulated Compounds in MDL Logistics (web delivery)
 
Related Product
MDL® Available Chemicals Directory
MDL® Reagent Selector
OHS Custom Services
 
 
 
Status: 'Not Logged In.' Language Home Directory: '' Server: 'mark' Sessionid: '3CC92A39253293BA44EDDA26D5B8B57E'