Material requests
Keep site, quantity and needed-by context together.
Material requests and stock
Follow a material request through to recorded stock.
Request what a site needs, route it for a decision, receive approved quantity and record usage or transfer against canonical stock.
The stock handoff
A balance is only useful when you can explain how it changed.
Requests, approvals, receipts and site usage are difficult to reconcile when each step lives in a different message or register.
A clear path from capture to responsible action.
Each step keeps the record, its context and the next responsibility visible.
- 01
Request
Choose the site, material, quantity, needed-by date and optional evidence.
- 02
Decide
Move the request through waiting approval, approved or rejected state.
- 03
Receive
Put approved received quantity into the existing stock transaction.
- 04
Use or transfer
Record supported movement and review the resulting balance.
What material inventory covers.
Focused capabilities for the complete workflow, described within their supported operating boundaries.
Approval projection
Use the canonical Approvals centre for the supported decision.
Receipts and usage
Record supported stock-changing transactions with validation.
Low-stock visibility
Surface recorded low stock for responsible follow-up.
Request to movement
Needs attention, low stock, receipts and usage remain together.
Current evidence shows the operational Materials surface and its pending material decision in the Approvals centre.
- One request lifecycle
- Canonical stock transactions
- Insufficient-stock validation
A useful record has a responsible next person.
The feature supports the handoff without blurring who records, reviews or receives the information.
Supervisor
Request, receive or use material in the site context.
Project manager
Review and decide supported requests.
Owner
See attention and recorded stock movement without procurement ERP complexity.
Lightweight material control
NIYAM does not turn a request into procurement ERP.
RFQs, vendor comparisons, full purchase orders, GRNs and automatic purchasing remain outside this feature.
- Physical stock still requires responsible verification
- Low stock does not place an order
- Approvals follow existing permissions
Questions about material inventory.
Straight answers about scope, review and responsibility.
What is the material lifecycle?
Request, Waiting for approval, Approved or Rejected, Received and Used are the lightweight supported states.
Does an approved request duplicate stock?
No. Approved quantity flows into the existing received transaction when it is actually received.
Does NIYAM create purchase orders or GRNs?
No. Full procurement documents and vendor comparison are outside the Starter Materials scope.