From QSIUK
Improve Cash Flow
Most contract laboratories invoice once a month, this is due to the time and effort it takes to collate the information to enable them to raise customer invoices. WinLims invoicing and quotation functionality integrates with customer contact records, flexible pricing data, and the work (samples processed ) carried out on behalf of the customers. When work has been completed for a customer an invoice can be raised immediately by WinLims: the work could be a single sample, or a range of samples but, whichever, it takes less than a couple of minutes to raise the invoice.
The sooner you raise an invoice the quicker you get paid, thus improved cash flow.
Easier Accreditation
WinLims has a structured database for the storage of laboratory data, with controls to protect the data. User access is controlled based on the capabilities of the user, even to the point of who is qualified to perform certain methods of analysis. This, in conjunction with audit trails which record any changes to the data, enables laboratories to get accreditation far more easily, and ensures the level of control required to maintain accreditation.
Less effort required to achieve accreditation.
Improves Perception Of Your Services
The level of service provided by contract laboratories is what separates one laboratory from another. The flexibility of WinLims enables a laboratory to provide remote access by customers to their data, to structure reports in the formats required by each customer. This, combined with faster turnaround times achieved by the increased efficiency provided by WinLims, will prove to both current and prospective clients the quality of your services.
This will enable your laboratory to secure more business and to maintain existing clients.
Increases Laboratory Efficiency
WinLims has been designed from the outset to achieve laboratory efficiency by providing functionality specifically for contract laboratories. This includes invoicing and quotations, automated reporting, contacts management, flexible pricing, instrument interfacing to capture results straight to WinLims, and more.
Our experience with contract laboratories has shown that invoicing can save 3 to 4 days a month, and reporting 2 to 5 days: these two items alone, without the other time savings, can certainly justify the acquisition of our LIMS.
The efficiencies provided by WinLims save substantial time and money.
Lock Your Clients Into Your Services
The WinLims reporting tool enables the laboratory to provide full and ongoing statistical analysis reports to its clients; these reports are populated with current and historical data held within the WinLims database. Once the clients appreciate he benefits of these reports, they will wish to continue doing so, and should they look to change to another contract laboratory, they lose access to the historical data.
This locks your clients into your services.
Enables Cost Effective Expansion
All laboratories wish to grow their business by taking on new clients or providing additional services to existing clients. The normal but expensive route is to employ more people, but many of our client contract laboratories have managed to significantly grow their business without the need for more staff. They achieve this because WinLims provides the structure and control of all of the laboratory data and delivers substantial time and workload efficiencies.
Being able to process significant additional samples, enables the laboratory to expand without large costs.
