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
Flat Rolled
Metal Framing
Multi-Line
Plate
Fabrication
Flat Rolled
Flat Rolled
Take tighter control of flat rolled sales and processing operations
- Define and track inventory with no limit to physical, dimensional, and chemical attributes
- Manage scheduling requirements for processes like Rolling, Slitting, Oscillating, Leveling, Sheeting, Toll Processing and Roll Forming
- Plan production based on raw material attributes to reduce setup and changeover time
- Layout Coil complete processing starting with Master coil through slitting, re-slits, reduction, edging, oscillating, etc from a single screen
- Shop floor workstations that allow operators to directly input actuals data like material usage, scrap and quality issues
Metal Framing
Metal Framing
Optimize production resources to meet customer expectations and build profitability
- Utilize Material Planning to recommend coils to slit and replenishment of master coil
- Plan production based on raw material attributes to reduce setup and changeover time
- Integration with AMS Eclipse
- Shop floor workstations that allow operators to directly input actuals data like material usage, scrap and quality issues
- Integrated Job Submittal creation
Multi-Line
Multi-Line
Automation designed specifically for linear attributes and processing
- 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
- Save the entire configuration, including components, processes, comments, and attributes under a Customer Specification Number – slashing data entry time for repeat items
- Sales Quote and Order nesting, costing and pricing calculations at the line-item level
- Nest multi-line 1D cutting across all sales and production demand with onboard nesting engine workbench
- Shop floor workstations that allow operators to directly input actuals data like setup and run times, material usage, product produced, remnants, scrap and quality issues.
Plate
Plate
Visibility for control from sales through production and delivery
- 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
- Save the entire configuration, including components, processes, comments, and attributes under a Customer Specification Number – slashing data entry time for repeat items
- Sales Quote and Order nesting, costing and pricing calculations at the line-item level
- Nest sheet/plate 2D shearing across all sales and production demand with onboard nesting engine workbench
- Seamless integration with ProNest® and SigmaNEST® eliminates manual data entry or redundant tasks that slow down workflow.
- Shop floor workstations that allow operators to directly input actuals data like setup and run times, material usage, product produced, remnants, scrap and quality issues.
Fabrication
Fabrication
Agile production through connected data- 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
- Save the entire configuration, including components, processes, comments, and attributes under a Customer Specification Number – slashing data entry time for repeat items
- Sales Quote and Order nesting, costing and pricing calculations at the line-item level
- Nest multi-line 1D cutting and sheet/plate 2D shearing across all sales and production demand with onboard nesting engine workbench
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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