ERP Software
for the Metals Industry
Technology specifically for the metal industry designed to streamline processes, achieve greater efficiency, and control costs. Control your business like never before.
An ERP Solution Specialized For Metal Products
RealSTEEL™ includes features specifically designed to support the products you work with every day
Metal Bar Distributors
Metal Plate Distributors
Flat Rolled Metal Distributors
Pipe and Tube Processing
Metal Framing and Accessories
Fabricated Assemblies and Finished Goods
Metal Bar Distributors
Metal Bar Distributors
Optimize Your Daily Operations
- Check demand against your inventory to find the most efficient cuts, increasing material utilization, reducing waste, and optimizing operations.
- Swap paper-based planning for digital systems and track all cutting in real time, with workflows that account for run times, material usage, and total output.
- Gain full, real-time visibility on all production costs. Discover what you’re spending and where, and identify key cost-cutting measures.
- Follow your production process from start to finish. Find and remove bottlenecks, and capture key data to fully understand what’s happening on the production floor.
Metal Plate Distributors
Metal Plate Distributors
Complete Control and Visibility
- Optimized plate cutting greatly reduces waste while evaluating total order demand to improve utilization.
- Replace traditional, labor-intensive systems with a digital workflow that accounts for setup time, run time, and output, while tracking material use throughout.
- Remove the guesswork and prevent shortages with detailed inventory tracking that includes plate attributes such as dimensions, grade, and quantity.
- Connect all departments to a single system and dataset. No more costly miscommunications or stock conflicts.
Flat Rolled Metal Distributors
Flat Rolled Metal Distributors
More Control Over Production and Sales
- ERP software that learns from your business, finds points of optimization, eliminates bottlenecks, and automates simple, resource-heavy tasks.
- Digital workflows designed for flat-rolled processing capture production steps (setup time, run time, production output) and monitor progression in real time.
- Use a Shipping Dispatch Board to schedule and monitor all outbound shipments, integrating inventory and third-party carriers to ensure readiness and meet delivery timeframes.
- Connect all departments to a single, multi-use system, improving business-wide communication and giving you complete visibility across your organization.
Pipe and Tube Processing
Pipe and Tube Processing
Clear. Concise. All-Encompassing.
- Reduce miscommunications and waste by connecting your organization to a single, fully integrated system.
- Track the production cycle from start to finish, ensuring exacting customer specifications are met, and bottlenecks are eliminated.
- Monitor your whole inventory, from the receipt of raw materials (including their specific dimensions, grades, and quantities) through to production and shipping.
- Customize the software to meet your requirements, including various integrations and complete scalability through the cloud.
Metal Framing and Accessories
Metal Framing and Accessories
Optimize Every Step
- Collect data from every process and power production with automated workflows and specialized integrations. Optimize, streamline, and eliminate bottlenecks.
- See all production and shipments in real time, with visibility into order readiness, inventory quantities, and delivery schedules.
- Find optimization points, track inventory in real time, automate resource-heavy tasks, and reduce the burden on your employees.
- Control your finances effectively and efficiently, with insights into specific and total costs, including labor, materials, processing, and overheads.
Fabricated Assemblies and Finished Goods
Fabricated Assemblies and Finished Goods
Stay Agile and Connected Using Intelligent Data
- Track inventory as soon as it enters your warehouse, with datapoints covering dimensions, grade, quantities, and more.
- Digitize your production tracking, maintain complete inventory accuracy, and schedule production to coordinate work throughout the shop floor.
- Monitor your orders in real time, with clear visibility into everything from ordering readiness to delivery schedules.
- Use advanced costing calculators that include details such as material, labor, and freight costs, giving you an accurate estimate.
- Automate labor-intensive, error-prone processes to reduce mistakes, eliminate waste, speed up production, and reduce resource strain across your organization.
MoreFeatures
Quoting & Sales
Inventory
Planning
Production
Shipping
Data Analysis
Quoting & Sales
- Accurate production time and costs for processing, both internal and outsourced
- Duplicate a quote or order
- Fast quote to order conversion
- Enable salespeople to work line-by-line and select the inventory and processes required for each line item of the quote or sales order – from a single screen
- Streamline quoting, inventory, scheduling
Inventory
- Define and track inventory with no limit to physical, dimensional, and chemical attributes
- Drop (remnants) can be viewed in the same inquiry as stock material
- Inventory Replenishment functions and tools
- Products can be managed by tag, heat, or location control
- Customizable inventory inquiry allows for searching by any attribute, including chemistry and mechanical test results
- Flexible inventory movements or formal structured warehouse management
- Full traceability
Planning
- Optimize cutting to minimize scrap and maximize remnants
- Automatically calculates the available capacity based on expected run times for each process and each machine.
- Proactively identify the need for alternative resources like outsourced processing.
- Adjust schedules in real time to respond to any change orders or unplanned machine downtime
- Allocate raw material at order entry for production planning.
- Balance due dates, material availability and production schedules
- Calculate materials usage automatically for every production order, pinpointing shortages.
- Ability to create custom formulas to calculate material usage and expected run time
- Real-time scheduling adjustments in response to unexpected delays—from change orders to machine downtime
Production
- Manage outsourced processes, including managing material stored at outside processors
- Duplicate a quote or order
- MES system collects data from all aspects of production, providing tight control over every workstation on the shop floor
- Shop floor workstations that allow operators to directly input actuals data like material usage, remnants, scrap and quality issues
- MES system collects data from all aspects of production, providing tight control over every workstation on the shop floor
- Track actual production setup, run and down times
- Guide operator tasks responsively with specific instructions on materials, stacking and cutting—including cutting diagrams
Shipping
- Easily schedule and assign loads for both outbound and inbound shipments
- Manage company-owned trucks, customer pickups and third-party trucks
- Print labels, picking tickets and other source documents
- RealSTEEL’s shipping dispatch board provides drag-and-drop load scheduling and reporting
- Track loads and available capacity, weights, drivers, cabs, and trucks
Data Analysis
- Improve the accuracy of costing and pricing by analyzing actual machine, material and labor overhead tracked over time
- Capture and report on actual runtimes by machine, person or any other attribute.
- Monitor supply chain and production activity and recommend action downstream within defined constraints
- Tracking outsourced processing costs, including materials, semi-finished products and finished goods.
- Develop the formulas and calculations that will monitor productivity at every step of your operations. Tracking actual to estimated run times and materials usage, your organization can identify trouble spots and take corrective action.
- Provide visibility into the specific elements of your production resources—by employee, by machine, by gauge to meet the specific requirements of your operations
- Yield calculations made at purchase time and updated throughout the manufacturing process to reflect variance
RealControl
RealSTEEL™ is designed to give metals companies unprecedented visibility into all facets of their business in a single ERP system.
- Manage issues across the entire organization with case management
- Capture quality measurements at receiving, production, and shipping
- Onboard one dimensional and two-dimensional optimization and nesting
- Integrations to SignmaNest and ProNest
- Integration to AMS Eclipse
- Wireless data collection for material movement, cycle counting, physical inventory and truck loading
- Inventory locator to manage physical locations within your warehouse
- Agile WMS streamlines the picking, put-away, moving of inventory processes
- Manage customer specifications, including attributes, material, and processes
- Integrated attachment system
- Elegantly manage outside processing
- Customize every sales line to specific customer requirements
- Unlimited physical, dimensional, and chemical attributes
- Full material traceability
- Shipping Dispatch Board to manage all outbound and inbound truck shipments
- Automated comments driven by attribute values in both sales and purchasing
- Capture actual time and material usage in real-time at machine centers for Rolling, Slitting, Oscillating, Leveling, Sheeting, Toll Processing and Roll Forming through RealSTEEL’s factory workstations
Resources
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