Adding Chemicals to Your SciShield Inventory

Learn how to efficiently record new chemical containers in your SciShield inventory management system. This guide simplifies the process of searching for substances and documenting their quantities for accurate laboratory tracking.

Kent Lanning
12 steps
2 minutes

Scishield

Click on the lab/group you want to access. All labs/groups you are a member of will have a link on the left hand menu.

Click "View Lab Profile" to access the labs main page.

Click "ChemTracker"

Click "Add Inventory"

Click the "Search for chemicals by name" field.

Type in the chemical name. In this case we'll use ethanol. Note: you can also search by CAS for materials with a CAS number.

Click "Ethanol (Liquid) - 64-17-5" from the list of materials that pop up matching your search.

Select the correct room the material will be stored in from the drop down. Note: only rooms attached to your lab will show as available. If the correct room is not shown, contact EH&S to add the room to your labs list of spaces.

Click the 'amount' field and enter a number only.

Select the correct unit of measure (liters, gallons, cubic feet, etc.)

Click the :Container Count: field and select how many identical containers you want to enter. For example a case of four 4L bottles could be entered here all at once by typing in 4 in the container count.

Click "Create". Your inventory has now been added.