How Verticent's Steel Industry ERP Solution Can Help You

The steel industry is highly competitive. Whether you are a slitter, coil processor, structural steel distributor, steel service center or performing steel fabrication, you are faced with a highly competitive market, one that requires for you to deliver on 3 critical aspects: price, delivery and quality. Verticent’s steel industry ERP solution can help you in all 3 of those areas. 

Price

How can Verticent help you when all the steel companies are basically paying the same price for the material and machines, and people costs are relatively the same? 

First, Verticent’s steel industry ERP software quickly compiles extensive customer history information so you can see sales and purchasing trends to help negotiate with your vendors. Second, Verticent’s steel industry ERP software solution tracks costs of material down to the individual tag, including your mults (if applicable). With this information and Verticent’s ability to track employee and overhead, you will quickly get a better handle on your costs and margins.   Third, Verticent’s steel industry software helps you be more efficient in the processing of your material by looking at the work to be done and by using its comprehensive optimization capabilities, which will help you consolidate jobs and materials and significantly reduce set-up and change-over costs by spreading over multiple jobs.

Delivery

How can Verticent’s steel industry ERP solution help you with delivery?

Verticent provides your shipping personnel with the ability to see what jobs are ready to ship and quickly look into the plant and determine what else will be coming.  Using the shipment consolidation capability, you can quickly group orders by customer, location and shipping lane.  Verticent also provides direct communication with your shipping suppliers informing them when jobs are ready to go and potentially even having them bid on the loads.  Verticent will help you plan better, providing full visibility to what material is available, what is coming, and what potentially could be delayed.

Quality

How can Verticent’s steel industry ERP help you with quality?

As you know, quality starts at the Mill, but it does not end there.  Verticent’s steel industry ERP software can receive certifications electronically (and hardcopy) from the Mill. These are electronically attached to the material at the tag level and as you continue to process the material, the quality information is carried along with the child tags.  Quality can also be verified by capturing and storing chemical attributes from your lab and comparing to what the Mill specifications state.  Quality is also captured throughout production and is entered directly into the application.  If for any reason material is out of spec, measurement or some visual problem, Verticent will flag that tag and provide the communication in real-time for someone in quality to take action.  On the shipment side of your business, Verticent will automatically deliver (hard copy, fax, email, EDI) the certification to your customers and will store their requirements so that there is never a mistake providing your customer with their requested information.

 

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