Labviva Purchasing Platform for Life Sciences

Accelerate the pace of research by empowering life sciences professionals with the visibility, context, and control they need.

Better value for your life sciences purchasing

Labviva empowers you to work with the trusted suppliers you choose and channel your spend to those that fit your procurement strategy. Easily identify the suppliers that offer the best value, while minimizing time spent on manual research and purchasing tasks.

Expanded network of trusted suppliers

Use Labviva to find and onboard high-quality, trusted suppliers with competitive pricing and availability.

Greater visibility with actionable data

Compare prices instantly across your chosen suppliers and identify alternatives when products are out-of-stock, keeping projects on track.

AI-powered automation

Use your time for value-added work thanks to AI-powered automation for tedious manual purchasing tasks like aggregating catalogs.

Labviva customers reduce their R&D spend

Lack of price comparisons and buying options drive up R&D spend. With the Labviva Purchasing Platform customers have more options and price transparency, and see 20% cost savings on average in the first year of implementation.

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SAVINGS IN YEAR ONE

Implement your contracts, your way

The Labviva Purchasing Platform adapts to your purchasing and R&D operations – not the other way around. Control the entire experience, for every user, through the entire purchasing process.

Customized offerings

Work exclusively with the suppliers you choose, at the terms you’ve negotiated, in a single checkout with multiple suppliers.

Tailored purchasing experience

Use Labviva’s rules engine to customize the experience to match your operations, and highlight preferred suppliers based on your needs.

Consolidated POs and electronic invoicing

Streamline payments without disrupting supplier relationships, or choose to keep your direct billing arrangements.

Flexible integrations

Minimize IT effort with easy integrations to your existing tech stack.

Offer chemicals and antibodies with Harper Scientific Selectors

Easily purchase chemicals with scientific selector tools available in the Labviva Purchasing Platform. Empower your users to search, browse, and buy products through Harper Chemical and Harper Antibodies, all in a single checkout.

Instant data & analytics at your fingertips

Labviva makes it easy to monitor and analyze purchasing with a view across your entire organization. Get the visibility you need, in the formats that work best for you.

Real-time views

Understand your spend across categories like geography, department, lab and user instantly.

See cost savings at a glance

Quickly identify purchases that have alternative options from lower-cost suppliers and get a view on total cost savings.

Drill-down capabilities and custom reports

Uncover and analyze patterns in any category, and build custom reports aligned with your needs.

Seamless data exports

Generate Powerpoint and Excel files directly from the dashboard.

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Labviva reduced our time spent on purchasing by 60% in our first year. It has given us more visibility than we’ve ever had on our spending patterns, while simultaneously cutting the time our scientists spend shopping. Most importantly, our researchers are finishing projects on time and on budget. It’s a game-changer for our business.

Global Head of R&D Procurement
$6B+ global biopharma company

Richer content and
better context

Labviva uses AI to provide better context for purchasing decisions. With the Labviva Purchasing Platform, access unparalleled product data, and understand how products are applied in research.

Richer product data

Product detail pages automatically aggregate millions of data points from hundreds of sources, including product images, specifications, 
peer-reviewed papers, and experimental protocols & citations.

Match products with research applications

Automatically match products with specific scientific papers, and understand how they were used in research.

Labviva streamlines the requisition process by providing 1:1 product comparisons across vendors, price and shipping comparisons, responsive search results, and supplemental information like peer-reviewed papers and molecular structure breakdowns. This intelligent solution empowers faculty, researchers, and staff to make well-informed buying decisions, aligning campus needs with UC's financial goals and responsibilities.

Meagan Torres
Associate Vice-Chancellor and Chief
Procurement Officer at UC Merced

Insights for life scientists

Understanding Labviva in 5 steps

Curious about how the Labviva platform works? Here’s an easy five-step explanation of how researchers and scientists use Labviva to purchase what they need in the lab.

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Accelerate your research with Labviva

The Labviva Purchasing Platform simplifies procurement for researchers and scientists.