Science Warehouse, one of the fastest growing companies in the e-business sector, has won a major new contract with leading international group of laboratories, Eurofins Scientific.

Science Warehouse, one of the fastest growing companies in the e-business sector, has won a major new contract with leading international group of laboratories, Eurofins Scientific.

The agreement sees Science Warehouse providing its market leading technology to deliver user-friendly purchasing and transaction management solutions to the eight Eurofins Scientific sites across the UK.

The partnership with Science Warehouse will enable the rapidly expanding Eurofins Scientific, to standardise procurement processes and increase spend visibility across all its laboratories. Eurofins Scientific, which has over $900 million sales annually and 8000 employees across 150 sites worldwide, provides testing and support services to the pharmaceutical, food and environmental sectors.

Jonathan Betts, sales & marketing director at Science Warehouse, said: “We are thrilled to be working with Eurofins Scientific, a key player in the life sciences supply chain globally. The new contract is testament to the fact that our team continue to deliver fresh ideas and commercial value to dynamic businesses such as Eurofins operating at all levels across the life science industry.

“In the current uncertain economic environment, businesses like Eurofins Scientific are investing for growth in the future but at the same time introducing initiatives to drive down costs. Cloud based solutions, including e-Catalogue, e-Requisitions, e-Invoices, and e-Reports, provide advanced enterprise solutions at a fraction of the investment required for traditional software implementations.”

Julian Coe, finance director UK, Eurofins Scientific, said: “Science Warehouse is the perfect addition to the Eurofins operation, allowing us to provide a sustainable, manageable, affordable and tailored e-procurement solution across all of our business units. This addition will further reinforce our position as one of the country’s leading life sciences companies by taking care of procurement so we can maintain our focus on delivering service excellence.”

Science Warehouse’s responsive and tailored e-procurement solutions are used by many leading organisations around the world to deliver procurement control and drive cost savings. Science Warehouse intelligently hosts over 3,000,000 products across all purchasing categories and connects buyers with over 10,000 suppliers for electronic trading. Science Warehouse’s outsourcing solutions are used by all seven of the UK’s Research Councils as well as many of the UK’s leading research led universities.