Material

Organize your entire material universe with a Catalog → Category Group → Category hierarchy that supports unlimited nesting depth. Mirror your company's exact classification structure — from broad equipment families down to the most specific sub-component types.

Catalogs carry their own lifecycle (Draft, Active, Inactive, Deprecated), location restrictions, and procurement policies. Lock a catalog to specific warehouses or vessels, enforce material type requirements, and control who can modify what — all from a single, intuitive management screen.

Buy in pallets, store in boxes, sell in pieces — Navatom handles the math. Assign separate units of measure for Inventory, Purchase, and Sales, and define bidirectional conversion factors between them.

When you set a unit, the system automatically searches for known conversions and applies them. No manual factor entry for standard conversions.

And when you need custom ratios, adding them takes a single form — both directions are created simultaneously.

Not all materials behave the same way. Define material types with five behavioral flags — Purchasable, Stockable, Valuated, Salable, and Manufacturable — and let the system adapt automatically.

Toggle "Purchasable" off, and procurement fields disappear system-wide. Toggle "Stockable" on, and inventory tracking activates instantly.

Changes cascade to every material of that type in real time. One toggle, thousands of materials updated — no migration scripts, no manual cleanup.

Store part numbers from every supplier alongside your internal material code. Each material can carry unlimited external part numbers with verified supplier company references — making RFQ creation faster and cross-referencing effortless.

When procurement needs to source a part, every supplier's catalog number is already at their fingertips. No more digging through emails or supplier portals.

When batch tracking is enabled, Navatom unlocks a complete batch lifecycle: configure manufacturing dates, shelf life periods, best-before dates, and expiry windows. Monitor aging across your fleet and ensure no expired material ever reaches a work order.

Batch properties are fully configurable per material — enable only the dates that matter for each product type, and let the system enforce the rest.

Mark a material category as possibly holding hazardous materials, and Navatom knows which goods receipts need a review for your Inventory of Hazardous Materials. With the optional Metizoft integration, every goods receipt of those materials is sent to your Metizoft account for that review.

Every industry classifies materials differently. Build your own data model with typed attributes — text, numbers, decimals, dates, booleans, or predefined pick lists.

Assign attribute types at the category level and let inheritance propagate them automatically down the tree.

Group related attributes together for clean, organized editing. Define numeric ranges, allow multiple values, and keep your material data structured and queryable — not buried in free-text description fields.

Start with a head start. Access centrally maintained, industry-standard material catalogs managed by Navatom.

Import them into your company with a single request — instantly populating thousands of pre-classified, ready-to-use materials.

Imported catalogs are read-only to preserve their integrity, but you can build on top of them with your own categories, attributes, and customizations. Standardization without rigidity.

Bridge the gap between maintenance and supply chain. Link materials directly to vessel equipment from the Planned Maintenance System, so your team can instantly answer "what spares does this engine need?" or "which vessels use this bearing?"

Relationships are vessel-aware — the same material can be linked to different equipment on different ships, with each relationship tracked independently.

Configure replenishment parameters for every warehouse, vessel, and storage location independently. Set minimum, optimal, and maximum stock levels.

Mark a material critical at a location, and set its planning period and expected shrinkage.

Fine-tune order modifiers — minimum and maximum order quantities, fixed lot sizes, and rounding multiples. Define planned delivery lead times, goods receipt processing days, and over/under delivery tolerances. Everything your planners need to make smarter restocking decisions.

Track material pricing trends with an interactive chart showing unit prices over time, five-period moving averages, and statistical overlays for average, minimum, and maximum prices. Spot cost anomalies and supplier pricing shifts before they impact your budget.

Every data point links back to the original transaction — vendor, quantity, currency, and goods receipt reference — giving your procurement team full context behind every price movement.

Every material is checked for gaps in its setup: missing units, broken conversions, inactive categories, types its group does not allow, and more. Violations surface as actionable alerts directly on the material detail page.

Not every violation needs immediate action. Consciously acknowledge known gaps by muting violations — they stay tracked but stop interrupting your workflow. Unmute them anytime when you are ready to resolve.

See current stock quantities broken down by every enabled tracking dimension — location, space, batch, serial number, status, and owner — all in a single, expandable grid. Drill into any row to see the full detail behind the number.

The on-hand view adapts dynamically to each material's tracking configuration. Batch-tracked materials show batch columns; serial-tracked materials show serial columns. No clutter, no irrelevant data — just the information your team needs.

Once a material has real inventory movements, Navatom automatically locks structural fields — type, category, units of measure, and tracking dimensions. Your operational data stays consistent, even as your team continues refining the material master.

Basic edits like name, description, and part number remain open. Only the changes that could break existing transaction history are protected — the right balance between flexibility and data integrity.

Upload product images with a built-in carousel viewer, full-size lightbox, and multi-image batch upload. Give your team — from warehouse operators to purchasing agents — a clear visual reference for every material in the catalog.

No more guessing whether "Gasket Type B-14" is the red one or the blue one. A picture is worth a thousand part numbers.

Build custom dashboards with widgets tailored to your material management priorities. Monitor catalog completeness, stock coverage health, violation trends, and material master quality metrics from a single screen.

Share dashboard configurations across your team so everyone — from the Superintendent to the Purchasing Manager — sees the KPIs that matter to their role.

Every change to every material is recorded with full attribution — who changed what, when, and to what value. From name edits to category reassignments, from status transitions to attribute updates, the complete event history is always one click away.

Built for regulated industries where traceability is not optional. ISM, ISO, and class society auditors will find a clean, chronological record of every material master change.