The Benefits of Outsourcing Your Custom Reagent Manufacturing

At Chata, we understand that your business has a limited amount of time and resources that it can devote to different functions. Keeping custom reagent manufacturing in-house may seem like an important aspect of your business, but in reality, you may be missing out on a wide variety of benefits that come from outsourcing your custom reagent manufacturing.

First, outsourcing allows your organization to become lean and efficient. That means your team spends more time on essential revenue generating activities and reduces the time spent on non-value-add efforts. This can lead to returning up to 25% of your team’s time back to driving the organization and focusing on attaining your goals, rather than working on activities that don’t have a direct effect on your production or bottom line.

Outsourcing also eliminates the time required for quality assurance sign-off for your in-house reagents. All the work is done outside of your facility and it’s only necessary for you to receive and use the premixed ready to use reagents. This leads to you getting the highest level of quality assurance with the least amount of oversight and resource allocation on your part.

This reduces not only the time that your team has to spend on non-value-add efforts, but also the expenses that go along with purchasing and maintaining the proper facilities and equipment for manufacturing your own custom reagents. You can eliminate a huge capital investment and instead focus on the part of the process that you do best.

Outsourcing can also be a more convenient option when it comes to regulatory compliance and quality control measures.

When you partner with Chata, you’ll also have complete and independent traceability for all your reagents. We maintain complete lot traceability and would provide detailed Certificates of Analysis (COAs) with each lot so that any customer or FDA audit you face can quickly and successfully be  managed. To take it one step further we would also provide you with a Product Definition (PD) and MSDS for your reagents. The mutually agreed upon PD is how we manufacture your reagent.  The PD contains details about the formulation, tolerances, labeling, required shipping labels/marking, packaging, QC testing, as well as sample labels and it is signed by both our Production Manager and our QA Manager as well as by your team. This ensures you know exactly what and how you will be receiving your reagents well before they are manufactured. Again, this is one more thing that frees up your employees for more critical work and allows you to maximize your outcomes while using fewer resources.

Because we produce our reagents in large batches and ship when needed, we can use the same lot for longer, and decrease batch variance. This gives you increased consistency in your reagents, which can be critical to companies with multiple labs or manufacturing sites. At Chata, we build consistency in our manufacturing with quality control (QC) testing throughout production.

All of this in turn will provide you with increased operational flexibility. Your facility will be better able to meet new challenges head on when you know that you have a partner who can deliver the highest quality reagents consistently, quickly and affordably.

When you put it all together, outsourcing your custom reagent manufacturing is simply the logical thing to do for many labs and manufacturers. The benefits to your employees, budget considerations, as well as the reallocated focus on driving the organization towards successful execution of its goals through revenue generating activates are hard to ignore. Call Chata today  to find out more about how outsourcing can help your facility run smoothly and efficiently.