Streamline purchasing and procurement workflows.
CSII PIMS provides a centralized purchase management system that helps organizations digitize procurement activities through a structured workflow, from identifying requirements to generating purchase orders and tracking supplier-related activities.
Manage procurement from requirement to purchase order
Efficient procurement helps ensure that organizations have the right materials and products available at the right time and at the right cost.
- Purchase indent management
- MRP-based purchase indent generation
- Purchase order management
- Purchase order amendments
- Quotation comparison
- Supplier and item mapping
- Price and discount management
- Vendor scheduling
- Purchase tracking
- Vendor invoicing
- Procurement workflow management
- Purchase audit trails
MRP-based purchase indent management
CSII PIMS can generate purchase indents through the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) process, helping organizations identify procurement requirements based on material and operational needs.
- Raw materials
- Packaging materials
- Sub-assemblies
- Administrative items
- Maintenance items
Quotation comparison and supplier visibility
PIMS supports quotation comparison, supplier and item mapping, and management of price and slab-wise discount information, helping procurement teams maintain better visibility into purchasing terms.
Improve inventory visibility and stock management.
Maintaining the right inventory level is essential for avoiding stockouts while preventing unnecessary overstocking. CSII PIMS centralizes inventory information and improves visibility across purchasing and stock-related processes.
Maintain better inventory control
With better visibility into inventory levels, organizations can identify stock availability and purchasing requirements more efficiently while reducing dependency on manual inventory records.
- Inventory visibility
- Inventory level monitoring
- Stock tracking
- Item-level management
- Inventory updates
- Stock availability monitoring
- SKU/item management
- Inventory-related reporting
- Audit trail management
Optimal inventory
Too little stock can result in
- Stockouts
- Production delays
- Order fulfillment issues
- Customer dissatisfaction
Excess inventory can result in
- Higher storage costs
- Capital being tied up in stock
- Increased risk of damage or obsolescence
- Inefficient use of warehouse capacity
Manage materials, purchase orders and suppliers.
CSII PIMS integrates material requirements, suppliers, purchase orders, pricing, delivery schedules, amendments, and vendor activities into a structured procurement workflow.
Purchase order management
- Purchase order creation
- Purchase order tracking
- Purchase order amendments
- Amendment history
- Supplier information
- Item information
- Pricing information
- Purchase schedules
Vendor management
- Supplier and item mapping
- Vendor scheduling
- Vendor invoicing
- Multi-vendor management
- Supplier communication
- Price and discount management
PIMS supports unlimited purchase order amendments and tracking, with amendment history maintained for greater visibility into changes.
Manage sales orders, dispatch and invoicing in one workflow.
Purchase and inventory operations are closely connected with sales and distribution. CSII PIMS, as part of the CSII SCM environment, provides capabilities that support sales orders, scheduling, shipping, dispatch, delivery documentation, and invoicing.
Sales and distribution capabilities
- Sales order management
- Sales order scheduling
- Shipping management
- Dispatch management
- Delivery note generation
- Invoicing
- Daily sales planning
- Sales order amendments
- Amendment history
- Multi-location shipping
- GST-related functionality
Flexible sales order management
PIMS supports shipping products to different locations against a single sales order, helping organizations manage more complex distribution requirements.
The system also provides functionality to prepare a daily sales plan and supports sales order amendments with amendment history.
Organizations can create delivery notes even when a sales order is not available, where applicable to their business process.
Single order → multiple locations
PIMS supports shipping products to different locations against a single sales order, helping organizations manage multi-location distribution requirements.
User-specific fields
The system provides the ability to define user-specific fields in sales orders without requiring customization, where supported by the product configuration.
Connect procurement, inventory and financial management.
Procurement and inventory processes are closely connected to financial operations. CSII PIMS helps connect purchasing and inventory processes with financial workflows, providing greater visibility and control.
Finance-integrated procurement control
Finance budget validation helps integrate financial checks into the procurement workflow and can help reduce the risk of procurement activities being processed without appropriate budget validation.
- Finance integration
- Finance budget validation
- Procurement workflow management
- Vendor invoicing
- Audit trails
- Multi-vendor management
- Purchase tracking
- Inventory visibility
- Financial process coordination
Finance budget validation
Before procurement activities are finalized, organizations need to ensure that purchases align with available budgets and internal financial controls.
Audit trails
PIMS supports audit trail capabilities to provide greater visibility into relevant system activities and changes, helping improve accountability and support internal review processes.
Everything organizations ask before implementing PIMS.
Bring purchasing, inventory and supply chain workflows together.
Explore procurement, inventory management, MRP, vendor management, sales orders, dispatch, invoicing, finance validation, and audit trails in a single PIMS demo.