Purchasing of Your Lab Supplies

Prepare for likely price increases on filter paper following Danaher acquisition of Cytiva (owner of Whatman brand) by working with Lab Procurement Services. We will assist you in finding and validating suitable alternatives, and save you money.

Our second generation LPS website will provide you with a much cleaner interface, better performance, and improved security. The new categorization system will make it even easier for you to find the products you are looking for.

● Hach, a Danaher company, has achieved a dangerously high percentage of market share in the water testing market.

● Lovibond and Taylor Technologies have been in this space for far longer, and both offer equivalent products or better technologies at much better pricing.

● Consumers need to push back against these policies to prevent a monopoly from forming.

From tap water to LC/MS Grade Ultra-Pure water, CAS #7732-18-5 is the one chemical found in every lab.

From Type 1 to Type 4, your lab will most likely use them all.

Why do customers continue to buy from big distributors despite the fact that promised savings goals are rarely met?

Why must you deal with a sales rep to receive any discounts from (artificially inflated) published list prices?

Did you know that when you purchased goods on labproservices.com that you weren’t dealing with a lab supply distributor? If not, who were you buying from? You were actually buying from a hybrid Procurement Service Provider. What the heck is that, you ask?

- Proprietary vs. “Universal” tips.

- What are the most common reasons tips “don’t fit?”

- Devising a classification system for pipet tips.

- Why tips for pipettors larger than 3ml (“macro” tips) are so hard to classify.

- Using this classification system to search for the tips you need.

How big distributors rig the game so they always win.

LPS's purpose is to save its clients money throughout the P2P process. From the initial list of items, LPS asks its clients to specify whether or not alternative but equivalent products would be considered for their orders? The default answer we use is yes. However, when the initial orders are placed and the end user gets to see the alternative product that was selected, there could be push-back. People resist change Is there a better way to manage the change?

Ordering the routine supplies you need to operate your lab is a routine task on most days. But when things go wrong and you can no longer perform testing, the costs can skyrocket. In a manufacturing environment, if the product cannot be validated to ship, the costs to the business can be in the millions of dollars per day!