Metal Service Centers
Enterprise Business Software
Skyline Steel LLC
Like many steel fabricators and service centers, Skyline was using multiple disconnected software applications to manage the business. While they had the necessary data for each of their departments, the data was disconnected and often times required multiple data entry inputs. Verticent was able to support managing their dimensional product.
Concrete Reinforcing Products
A growing company, CRP has empowered their employees to get whatever information they need, whenever they need it. And now, with Verticent, they are able to get that information more efficiently, quicker and with confidence in its accuracy. CRP, its employees and its customers, are all empowered by Verticent.
DECRA Roofing Systems
The success that DECRA has achieved with the Verticent solution shows that companies like DECRA, companies who are managing a dimensional product and who require detailed heat number and lot number genealogy, are able to deploy Verticent and address the unique software capabilities brought on by both of those requirements.
Lorin Industries
Lorin's
management embarked on an ERP system selection
and implementation project to secure the tools
needed to be more responsive and effective,
reduce costs, and serve its customers more
efficiently. They chose the ERP Plus system from
Verticent.
Experience is the best teacher. And anyone experienced with metal service centers understands that their unique business requirements demand unique software-Service center software that is designed to handle inventory attributes such as dimension, form, diameter, shape, density and more. Metal service center software that quickly configures quotes and orders based upon customer specifications. Service center software that identifies the ideal raw materials needed to fulfill any given customer order. Metal service center software that optimizes metal cutting operations and minimizes waste. Service center software that optimizes remnant inventory, automatically converts multiple units of measure, streamlines heat/lot/serial tracking, and automatically prints Mill Test Reports.

Enterprises in the metal industries that provide materials to the supply chain, or add value to materials such as metal cutting, or perform metal form manufacturing, need enterprise software for metal service centers. Generic manufacturing software solutions or material requirements planning systems just won't do. Metal industries need to manage dimensional inventory and the unique chemical and physical properties of that inventory. That's where metals ERP (enterprise software for metal service centers) provide the functionality needed for your unique industry.
Verticent's ERP for metal service centers provides broad and deep functionality delivering the benefits of modern ERP solutions plus the metal industries functional requirements needed by your unique enterprise. Key features of Verticent's metals ERP solution includes:
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Fully integrated Metals ERP for the metal industries. One provider - one solution. With Verticent you don't have to worry about disparate systems tied together. We provide real-time, enterprise software for metal service centers that helps improve employee efficiency and reduce operational costs.
- Sales and Distribution Management
- Production Management
- Financial Management - Integrated sales force automation and customer relationship management.
- Real-time internet based sales/demand management.
- Multi-site and multi-currency capabilities throughout, not just at the GL level.
- Landed cost management to accurately track imported materials and their associated costs.
- Improved profits by improving the utilization of your biggest asset - your inventory. Embedded cut optimization for metal cutting and metal form manufacturing to help minimize scrap/waste.
- Material requirements planning systems that help meet customer demand while minimizing your cash exposure with powerful inventory analysis capabilities integrated into cut optimization.
- Electronic data interchange (EDI) to electronically conduct business in the supply chain.
- Bar-coding to eliminate errors and speed data entry and processing.
- Sub-contract operations - manage inside and outside services on a single order.
- Sales orders & sales quotation management; cloning to eliminate speed quote-to-order conversion without re-keying. Buyout order support.
- User definable inventory attributes.
- Powerful reporting to help manage your business and its day-to-day operations. These business intelligence (BI) tools turn data into decision support information.
- Microsoft technologies used in the deployment and development.
- Proven software and a proven implementation methodology delivered by metal industries professionals.
- Landed cost management to accurately track imported materials and their associated costs.

Verticent has the experience designing and deploying manufacturing software solutions. And our comprehensive business system incorporates powerful ERP for metal service centers, sales force automation (SFA) and customer relationship management (CRM), internet deployment (eBusiness) and Business Intelligence solutions that turn data into information to help you run your business-proven to satisfy the unique demands of metal service centers. By leveraging leading computing technologies, we provide a flexible, yet affordable service center software system that enables quick implementation, easy administration and rapid ROI. It is one complete service center software solution-forged from experience.
Verticent distinguishes itself from the competition by delivering a comprehensive enterprise business system that meets the specific demands of Metal Service Centers.
- If you would like more information about how Verticent Solutions can help your business, contact us today.


