Accurate inventory control means tight cost control
If you’re tracking chemical inventory on paper or with a basic spreadsheet program, you probably don’t have accurate, up-to-the-minute information at your fingertips. The result may be unnecessary, duplicate ordering and high disposal costs due to inefficient use of purchased materials. CISPro can help you make the best use of everything you buy, in all of your facilities. With features like bar code labeling and tracking, remote inventory control and automatic e-mail notifications, you’ll know exactly, real-time, what you have in all your facilities and when it’s set to expire, regardless of how many users and material classes you deal with. CISPro can also help you bundle orders from multiple facilities and centralize purchasing, for the best pricing.
Protect your company and employees with accessible, accurate safety data
Any time chemicals are in use, safety is an issue. In the event of an accident, the correct information needs to be available on the spot. The first step, of course, is knowing exactly what you have and where it is. The second is maintaining up-to-date information, whether it’s the MSDS or your own customized handling instructions. And third, that information needs to be readily available, in some cases customized by region and produced in multiple languages. CISPro gives you all the tools you need, from accurate inventory tracking, to automatic links to MSDS databases, with architecture that allows you to make the right information available exactly when and where it’s needed.
Easy to implement, easy to use
The downfall of many custom-designed chemical inventory management systems is that they are too difficult to use. The result is that only a few people in the company have the knowledge and patience to use the system. Accuracy and timeliness of the chemical inventory data suffers. Valuable time may be lost when experiments must be stopped because the necessary chemicals are not on hand. CISPro provides the ease of use that ensures usage. Many of our customers report that users learn the system in just a few hours. We also offer a structure search capability that gives users the option of searching for chemicals by structure and substructure.
Accurate reports and documents, when you need them
You need to be prepared at all your facilities for inspections by the fire department, EPA, FDA and/or OSHA. And if you’re operating in other countries, there may be even more authorities and regulations. Our CISPro systems give you the tools to stay in compliance and prove it. CISPro helps you accurately track chemical inventory and generate reports that document compliance at any time, in virtually any format.
Whether it’s preparation for an OSHA audit or SARA and Tier 2 reports, you’ll be able to produce accurate, thorough reports quickly and easily. When it comes to building and fire codes, CISPro has standard HMIS report formats built right in, along with functionality that enables you to keep your inventory at safe levels at all times.
Meeting the toughest demands of highly regulated environments
No environment today is as tough on documentation as the pharmaceutical industry, and CISPro is already in use in hundreds of these facilities. CISPro’s rich functionality delivers the tools that meet the most rigorous regulatory challenges in biotech and pharmaceutical R&D and pilot plants.
With unlimited document linking, audit trail, electronic signature and many more security features, CISPro can track an unlimited number of samples and/or material classes including biologicals, chemical standards, reference standards, excipients and intermediates. Built-in features allow you to automatically track chemical testing data, from the time the material is received at one of your facilities. CISPro also adapts easily to non-GMP and non-regulated environments. So if you’ve got a combination of both, you can deliver just the functionality that’s needed to each and every user. Materials classes can be specified as GMP or non-GMP and set up based on user login, enabling each user to see just the data that relates to his/her work or location. You can maintain a centralized chemical inventory database with multiple levels of security that automatically tailor the interface to the individual user.
CISPro also enables you to ensure that your chemical inventory is in compliance with the FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11 electronic records and signatures rule.
A new framework for the largest, most complex challenges
For large companies with many users in multiple facility types and locations, our new CISPro Global system delivers a complete and sustainable solution that was previously only possible with a custom-designed system. Other commercial software products make you adapt your workflows to the system’s fixed parameters. We think it should be the other way around. Even popular ERP systems aren’t as flexible or comprehensive. Based on our new and unique application framework, CISPro Global allows virtually unlimited custom configuration to meet your changing and evolving processes and workflows. CISPro Global can be configured by site or by business unit, while still maintaining a central database. At the same time, the software framework enables ongoing upgrades and support of the system, regardless of the degree to which the system is user-configured. And no matter how much configurability you use, the validated context of the system is not compromised.
The system interface can be adjusted based on custom logins, allowing the customer to specify what data each individual can access, while still maintaining a centralized, global database. Our new security modules are highly configurable, so you can easily add or delete roles and permission levels and implement new to custom security checks at any time.
For multinational companies, safety data can be configured and managed based on country or region, in multiple languages, and the system can generate required regulatory reports in any regional format. The web-based delivery of CISPro Global facilitates implementation, eliminating the need to install software on the PC of every user, while the system’s ability to operate on low bandwidth connections ensures ease of operation anywhere in the world.
With CISPro Global, you can get the best of both worlds – a system that’s custom-tailored to your complex and unique needs with the sustainability and support you expect from a commercialized “off the shelf” product. Your CISPro Global system will always remain in the mainstream of our upgrade and support path, which means your investment is protected for the long term.
Whether you’re managing a small lab or a multifaceted, multinational operation, ChemSW has a system to meet your needs. If you’re looking to reduce chemical purchasing and disposal costs, improve the communication of chemical safety data or meet regulatory reporting requirements, our CISPro™ Chemical Inventory System delivers the solution.
Regardless of how complex your challenges are, the sky’s the limit on our ability to configure a system that works with your processes. Now and tomorrow. In regulated or non-regulated environments or both. For a single lab or the entire enterprise. Anywhere in the world, for any number of users.
There’s no longer any need for custom-designed, one-off systems that meet your needs at one time but aren’t flexible or adaptable. At ChemSW, we are constantly bringing new customers and companies into our existing base of thousands of users. And we’re continually supporting and upgrading our systems with new features and functions based on what we hear from the customer. So you can count on us for a sustainable solution that meets your present and future needs.
Whether your application calls for a single desktop system, a client/server, or web-based version, there's a CISPro system to meet your needs.We offer enterprise versions that work with your existing SQL or Oracle* systems, as well as a web version that enables you to deliver system capabilities and company-wide chemical inventory information to users via a web browser over your corporate intranet.
ChemSW is the world leader in chemical inventory management software systems. For over 13 years, we have continually set the standard for the cutting edge in system development. Our sharp focus on chemical inventory management has enabled us to develop and maintain unparalleled domain expertise. With over 2,000 installations, we deliver experience, support and upgrades to customers worldwide.
ChemSW serves major customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, petrochemical, food and environmental industries as well as colleges and universities. We maintain a comprehensive R&D program, coupled with rigorous usability testing and quality control processes. We support all of our customers and systems with an experienced, dedicated customer service staff.
In addition to our flagship CISPro™ Chemical Inventory System, we offer programs for sample tracking, document control, quality control, instrument maintenance and MSDS management.
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To find out more about how CISPro can meet your chemical inventory challenges, contact us today and we will be glad to send you more information and schedule a time for an free online demonstration. You can contact us at 707-864-0845 or info@chemsw.com
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