Tools That Actually Work

How it works

Stop guessing how to cut your long products. We take your orders and your stock, run the math, and give you a cut list that minimises scrap.

Take the plan, adjust it if you think you know better (we won’t take it personally 😉), and send it to the saw. It turns a tedious morning job into a five-minute review.

The production planner works for all long products, although it is well-tested in the rebar space. We tested with Midland Steel and were able to reduce scrap rates by 50%.

What’s needed to trial this product today

• An inventory spreadsheet
• An orders spreadsheet

That’s it! You can upload both of these into our inventory and order management tools and then go hit that “Plan” button. A few minutes later, you’ll be able to download your plan and see key details about how much scrap and offcuts you’d end up with.

How it works

Spreadsheets break. ERPs are expensive and horrible. You need something that just works.

Our tool lets you track your stock without a headache. Manage suppliers, draw down stock, and actually know what’s sitting in your racks. It pulls data straight from your certificates so you don’t have to type it in.

Use it on its own or hook it up to whatever legacy system you’re forced to use. Just stop guessing.

What’s needed to trial this product today

• Start adding stock or…
• An inventory spreadsheet

You can easily add items into your inventory by hand or if you’ve got an extract from somewhere else, you can easily upload it to populate your inventory for your team. They can then start using it immediately.

Why metals inventory is different from general inventory

Metals inventory is not just a count of items in a location. A steel stockholder or fabricator holds material by grade, size, heat number, and certificate reference. A coil of 3mm mild steel is not interchangeable with a coil of 3mm S355 — even if they look the same on the rack. Material that is committed to a live order is not available for another order, even if it is physically present in the warehouse. Off-cuts that are below a minimum usable length should be tracked separately from prime stock.

GoSmarter’s inventory management is built with this specificity in mind. It tracks material by the attributes that matter in metals manufacturing — not just location and quantity, but grade, size, condition, and certificate reference. This means your inventory view reflects the material you actually have available to commit to orders, not a generic count that includes everything from prime stock to scrap.

The link between inventory and compliance

In metals manufacturing, inventory management and compliance management are inseparable. Material that is in stock needs a traceable record linking it to the certificates that prove its grade and properties. When that material is allocated to an order and eventually delivered to a customer, the certificate needs to follow it. GoSmarter connects your inventory to your certificates, so the traceability chain from goods-in to delivery is maintained without manual effort.

This connection matters practically as well as in principle. When a customer asks for the certificate for a specific heat number on a delivery, you need to be able to find it quickly. When an auditor wants to verify that material used in a safety-critical application met the required standard, you need a complete and reliable record. GoSmarter provides that record as a natural output of managing your inventory correctly.

Getting started

The easiest way to start with GoSmarter inventory management is to import your existing inventory data. If you have an inventory spreadsheet — however basic — you can upload it to populate your GoSmarter inventory in minutes. From that starting point, your team can begin managing stock movements, allocating material to orders, and viewing real-time stock levels straight away.

If you want to see how it works before committing any data, you can start by adding a few items manually and testing the workflow end-to-end. It takes less than 30 minutes to get a meaningful feel for whether it will work for your operation.