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Purchasing Platform

The life sciences purchasing platform with more visibility, context, and control

Dashboard & Analytics

The purchasing and inventory data you need, right at your fingertips

Inventory Management System

Automated inventory management that keep shelves stocked and spend on track

Labviva Insights

The Metabolism of Science: How Agentic AI is Transforming Academic Procurement

Academic institutions stand at a pivotal inflection point. The convergence of agentic AI, autonomous lab systems, and mounting geopolitical pressures - from tariff volatility to Scope 3 emissions mandates - is forcing a fundamental rethink of how research universities operate.For decades, academic procurement has been defined by fragmented workflows, decentralized spending, and manual contracting. It has accumulated what we call "workflow debt." That era is ending. Distilled from Labviva's Academic Procurement Roundtable and Customer Advisory Board, this piece explores how agentic AI is transforming procurement from a bureaucratic bottleneck into the metabolic engine that keeps science moving

How SaaS solutions for purchasing are transforming life sciences

We’ve all seen and experienced how companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon have reshaped B2C commerce by creating platforms that are both continuously innovating from a technical perspective, but also raising user expectations.

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