I appreciate the bulk of what Genemod has to offer. My lab has only had it for a few months, but it's made everyday functions within and throughout the lab a lot smoother. For example, we have benefitted greatly from the freezer management feature, both for plasma and blood samples and for our cells in liquid nitrogen. The interactive inventory feature is absolutely lovely, but i think it would be most beneficial to smaller labs. We have a hard time keeping up with the consumption rate of our supplies (i.e., flasks, pipette tips), so it's only helpful for getting a general feel for where things are stored in the lab, not the actual amount of a certain product that we have on hand. If you have a technician that is looking for more work, then maybe they can take the time to monitor the inventory. I do love the concept, though, so I won't put this in the critiques box. I can see how beneficial it is to a smaller lab or a larger lab with a huge team. I appreciate how intuitive the software is to use, and it was relatively easy to transfer our day-to-day functions from our older inventory platform to Genemod. For the most part, the inventory management is also very helpful and works well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My critiques lie entirely within the inventory management system.
-- Each month, I generate a spending report for my PI. Genemod has a great feature in which you can filter requests by date (i.e, April 1 to April 30). However, when I "Export" my filtered results, it will export every single order we have ever made, meaning I need to manually scroll through a giant excel file and sort out the ones that I am looking for (e.g. the April requests). I'm not sure why Genemod allows me to filter my requests but not export the filtered requests, but please consider fixing this issue. It adds a lot of work that, in theory, I should not have to do.
-- I would appreciate a field in which we can enter shortcodes associated with the requests as right now I am adding them in at the beginning of the "name" field in requests (so I can still sort purchases by shortcode).
-- I also don't think that Genemod notifies people when you add comments to orders, but this would be incredibly helpful for people to locate the items I received for them (rather than them having to hunt me down across the hospital facilities).
-- In addition, a very minor (but super helpful) change would be adding a "copy" shortcut next to the fields in inventory management. Currently, I have to highlight the whole text. A little "copy" button would be fantastic, but again this is very minor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
