ChemSW to Present a Free Seminar on Best Practices for Managing Laboratory Chemical Inventory, October 15, 2008 in Orlando, FL

ChemSW to Host a Free Seminar on Best Practices for Managing Laboratory Chemical Inventory

Seminar Focuses on Leveraging Best Practices When Implementing a Chemical Inventory System to Ensure System Adoption and Successful Incorporation into Lab Processes

ChemSW, Inc. will host a free seminar series based on our ground-breaking white paper that details best practices in chemical inventory management. Author and Sr. Technical Specialist Rick Musselman will be presenting the two-hour seminar twice daily.

Dates and Locations: (click on link to register or express your interest in attending)

Orlando, FL October 15th (9:30am-11:30am)

Orlando, FL October 15th (1:30pm-3:30pm)

Hilton Garden Inn Orlando Airport, 7300 Augusta National Drive, Orlando, FL 32822

I won’t be able to make the seminar, I’d like to schedule an online demo

Topics:

• Reasons Why Inventory Systems Succeed and Why Systems Fail
• Components of a Best Practices Chemical Inventory System
• The True Costs of Chemical Management
• How to Estimate Chemical Inventory Activity Costs
• Comparison of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Inventory Management Solutions
• The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Chemical Inventory Management
• How to Gain Control of Your Chemical Inventory
• Identifying and Correcting Weaknesses in an Existing Inventory System
• How to Address Regulatory Requirements to Ensure Inventory Integrity
• How to Meet the New Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism 6-CFR-Part 27 Standard

Learn How to Improve Chemical Safety and Inventory Data Management
Companies that utilize chemicals in their labs and their manufacturing processes must manage those chemicals in a safe environment in accordance with government regulations. At a minimum, to ensure that this is accomplished, a system for managing information about the chemical safety and inventory data should be established and maintained. Best practices take this minimum and leverage the management of the chemical inventory by leveraging the abilities of the people, processes, and technology involved to best effect.

Understand How to Identify and Optimize Critical Inventory System Components
Best practices are “best in class” business policies, procedures, and processes that have continuously proven successful for many organizations. Best practices as applied to an organization’s chemical inventory system are significantly different today than they would have been even a decade ago. Today’s best practices chemical inventory system works with other Information Technology (IT) solutions to not only track chemicals location and use, but also generate reports and access hazard information.

This seminar explores the different ways to implement an inventory system, from internally developed solutions to off-the-shelf Chemical Inventory Systems (CIS) to outsourcing all or some of the inventory tasks. The strengths and weaknesses of each solution will be addressed, enabling attendees to define the best CIS for their laboratory.

In addition, the instructor will guide attendees through a short self-diagnostic test to determine the effectiveness of their current chemical inventory management system, and what areas to investigate to change bottlenecks in their chemical inventory processes.

Seminar Highlights How Inventory Systems Can Leverage Best Practices
The goal of the seminar is to enable attendees to determine a Best Practices CIS for their organization that can perform effective chemical stock monitoring, forecasting, and setting and assessing chemical stock levels, while reducing stock levels, costs, liability, and environmental impact.

To help ensure that attendees know all the components of an effective CIS and how to make it work, seminar attendees will receive a copy of ChemSW’s recently revised and expanded white paper entitled Best Practices for Managing Chemical Inventory. The white paper delves into the best practices involved in managing chemical inventory to achieve the most effective, holistic chemical inventory system.

Gaining control of your organization’s chemical inventory by implementing Best Practices not only provides numerous opportunities for waste and cost reduction but also enables your organization to go beyond compliance to implement environmentally preferable purchasing, chemical exchanges, and other waste minimization and pollution prevention initiatives.

Who should attend

• Laboratory Managers
• IT Professionals
• Chemical Hygienists
• QA/QC Managers
• EH&S Professionals
• Stockroom Managers
• Inventory Managers

About the Speaker
Rick Musselman is Sr. Technical Specialist/Inventory Consultant, for ChemSW where he is responsible for CISPro solutions support and training. He has more than ten years experience supporting and training hundreds of users in the field of chemical inventory tracking and management, utilizing computer and software support skills honed in the telecommunications industry.