CLIMS brings three things — purchasing, budgets and reagent inventory — into one cloud system for research departments. The aim is to hold the organisation to its own rules without getting in the way of the research.
Seen from the management side, a research department is hard to observe. Budget consumption is not visible in time, approvals sit in paper and email, control of hazardous substances depends on someone remembering, and surplus stock quietly accumulates as idle assets. CLIMS supplies the control and the visibility that management needs.
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Features
Control over purchasing, and a record of what happened.
Control through approval flows
- Approval flows up to six levels deep, set by budget code, department, user or amount
- Paper and email approvals replaced by a digital process, tightening control over spend
Audit trail
- Every order and receipt recorded in detail
- CSV download and API access, so an audit trail can be produced
Budget codes and supplier integration
- Your own budget account codes can be configured and managed against
- Data exchange with suppliers, so delivery dates and goods receipt are completed online
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Budget visibility
- Budgets set per project, with actuals against budget shown in real time
- Permissions so managers see the current position within their own scope
Automated regulatory compliance
- Automatic generation of the register for poisonous and deleterious substances
- Automatic calculation of designated quantity multiples under the Fire Service Act
- Lot numbers and expiry dates captured automatically from manufacturer delivery data
Inventory optimisation
- Reorder points set per item, with quantities calculated and ordered automatically below the threshold
- Prevents surplus stock and stockouts at the same time
Relationship with Onevio
Brand
CLIMS is the reagent-management brand for research institutions, offered on Onevio, our group’s B2B platform. It can be used alongside the Onevio supplier marketplace and contract service search.