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Inventory Enterprise

Freezer & Biological Sample Management

Author: Daryl Paraguya
Company: PerkinElmer Informatics
Issue: 16.3

Inventory Enterprise is designed to manage materials across the organization - from reagents used in research, test compounds in plate formats, and reference standards in manufacturing. In a recent development, the application framework has been expanded with the addition of Freezer Management and workflows for Biological Sample handling.

Freezer Management

Inventory Enterprise has always supported an infinitely hierarchical location tree. Mapping your organization into this model is straightforward. One example is to create a structure of Company > Site > Building > Lab > Bench. This model is flexible and extensible and works well for many organizations.

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Figure 1: A common freezer layout that is used in the laboratory.

Working with freezers and racks often requires more fine-grained control over where to store a sample. This is because racks and freezers are often set up as an mxn grid. Locations, therefore, must be accessed and displayed with an understanding .....