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● How did regional distributors make a comeback in the market?.

● Why do regional distributors appeal to lab buyers?

● What are the major objections to doing more business with regional distributors?

● How do regional distributors compete against the big distributors?

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?

We were informed recently that Hach no longer permits its distributors to sell their products to resellers. Hach is a Danaher Corporation company. Danaher owns a lot of premier brands including Beckman Coulter. In the life science sector, they have acquired Pall Life sciences as well as Cytiva (formerly GE Whatman) whose most recent revenue statement was $31.47 billion.

- 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.

What is the LPS new approach to Scientific Supply?

We help customers streamline the procurement process and save money by working with vendors on their behalf, freeing up more time to perform mission-critical work.

The Lab Supply Sales Rep Changing Roles In this post we will take a look at the lab supply sales rep. What do they do? What makes a good rep? Do customers want reps to make actual sales calls in the age of the internet?

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?

In this blog post we will address the question of whether having distributor sales reps call on you is still something customers want or need in the age of the internet.

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!