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GoSmarter for GoSmarter Platform Solutions for Metals Manufacturing

GoSmarter Platform Solutions for Metals Manufacturing

Audit risk. Cert chasing. Untraceable materials. Delayed shipments. These are not admin problems. They are compliance and traceability problems. GoSmarter solves them at the platform level, not with a patchwork of separate tools.

GoSmarter is one platform. Every cert turns into usable data the moment it lands, so traceability starts before the metal ever reaches the yard. Every heat number tracked from goods-in to despatch. Every audit trail built in as standard. Your process and your data, not locked into someone else’s workflow.

What the platform covers

  • Compliance — AI reads every cert automatically, whether it arrives as a PDF, a scanned image, or a photo. Material properties tagged, EN 10204 audit trail built, branded cert packs generated at despatch. This is the core of the platform.
  • Inventory — live stock with cert data linked at goods-in. Filter by grade, carbon equivalent, yield strength, wall thickness, or section designation. Know what you have and what it is certified for.
  • Production — AI cutting plans run against certified, live stock. Grade compliance verified before any job starts. Scrap tracked per cut.
  • Finance — real-time margin visibility at the order level, not at month-end when the damage is done.
  • Operations — order status visible across production, quality, and logistics without anyone chasing updates.

Features unlock by tier. Starter gives you the traceability foundation. Workshop adds compliance automation. Production adds AI cut planning tied to certified material. Scale covers multi-site enterprise rollout. Start where you need to. 50% off your first month means the returns come before the full cost does.

Not sure where to start? Most customers start with compliance. Certs are live from day one. The audit trail builds itself. Every other capability (inventory, cutting, operations) runs better once the cert data is clean and linked.

How the savings stack up

Most customers tackle one problem first and find the savings compound quickly. Cutting scrap by 30–50% reduces your material cost directly. Recovering 100+ hours of admin time a year frees your planners to focus on throughput. Better stock visibility cuts over-ordering, releasing cash tied up in material you don’t need yet. Better order visibility improves On-Time In-Full (OTIF) performance. Revenue stays protected and customer relationships stay intact. None of these require a rip-and-replace. You can start with one problem this week.

How it all connects

Procurement uploads the mill report from the inbox. The system tags the material properties automatically. No retyping, no renaming. Quality sees flagged material early and approves it before the goods arrive. That changes the job from chasing paperwork to checking whether the material fits the order.

When the truck shows up, Goods In bulk uploads the items with their heat codes. The new stock links back to the original properties without another round of manual matching. Every item carries the right identity, and the same record follows it from receipt to release.

Design engineers match stock quickly, without hunting through documents or guessing which batch belongs where. Production reserves the right material and uses it on the job. Quality Control and Despatch generate branded cert packs and send them with the goods. Customers get what they need to receive, approve, and pay without extra back-and-forth.

That is the full chain: cert to stock to plan to despatch. The paperwork does not disappear. It stops acting like paperwork and starts acting like the product record.

Before you commit

Your budget holder wants numbers. Your IT manager wants specs. Both are reasonable.

The free Business Case Calculator puts real pounds-and-pence projections behind every GoSmarter solution. Customers typically recover the annual subscription cost in scrap savings alone within the first quarter. The calculator shows you the projection for your specific operation: scrap rate savings, staff hours recovered, emergency procurement avoided. Export it as a PDF your finance team can review without sitting through a demo first.

For technical teams, the integration strategy covers exactly how GoSmarter connects to your existing systems, from standalone use through to full REST API integration with your ERP. API documentation is available without signing up.

Improving Throughput for Ops Managers

Start in a Day, See Results in a Week

GoSmarter operations management is part of the GoSmarter platform. No implementation project. No data migration. No consultant to hire. Most operations teams are tracking live orders on day one. Built to be picked up without a training course. If your team can use a smartphone, they can use GoSmarter. 50% off your first month.

Start with order tracking or compliance management and expand as the returns come in. Inventory management and AI cutting plans connect to the same live data. Your entire operation runs from one view. Nobody has to chase a status update.

Order and Workflow Change History

Every change to an order, order line, or workflow record is captured automatically in GoSmarter: who changed it, what the original value was, what it became, and a server-side timestamp. If an order spec changes mid-production, the trail is there. If a record is deleted, it is tracked and recoverable. Why audit trails matter in metals manufacturing →

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Improving Visibility for Finance Teams

See the Numbers Before You Commit

Before you sign up, run your own numbers through the free Business Case Calculator. Enter your costs and projected improvements to get real pounds-and-pence projections on when you break even. Most finance directors find GoSmarter pays back within the first quarter. With 50% off your first month, the returns come before the full cost does. No commitment required.

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Purpose-Built for Metals Products

Start Tracking Stock in Under an Hour

GoSmarter inventory management is part of the GoSmarter platform, available from the Starter tier. Most teams have their existing stock imported and their first deliveries logged within the first hour. No IT team. No consultant. No migration plan. If you have a spreadsheet with your current stock, you have everything you need to get started. 50% off your first month.

Implementation is not a project. You log in, upload your stock list, and you are live. Once inventory is running, cert data links automatically at goods-in, so every stock item carries its full certificate history. The Production tier adds AI cutting plans that run against your certified, live inventory. Your process, your data, your control.

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Saving Hours for Compliance Teams

Compliance and Traceability from Day One

Most teams think compliance starts with a folder and ends with a signature. GoSmarter flips that. It turns the certificate into usable data the moment it lands, so traceability starts before the metal ever reaches the yard.

Procurement uploads the mill report. The system tags the material properties automatically instead of making someone retype and verify the same sheet. Quality sees flagged material early and approves it before the goods arrive. That changes the job from chasing paperwork to checking whether the material fits the order.

GoSmarter’s compliance features are available from the Starter tier. Most teams process their first batch of certificates automatically within an hour of signing up. Your existing certs upload directly. GoSmarter reads them from PDFs. No re-keying. No setup fee. No long-term contract. 50% off your first month.

Once your certs are linked to stock, the rest follows naturally. Cutting plans in the Production tier pull cert data to verify grade compliance before any job starts. Order traceability links cert records to despatch notes. Audit reports generate in seconds from data captured automatically. Not assembled in a rush the week before an inspector arrives.

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Saving Hours for Production Planners

AI Cutting Plans Against Certified Stock: From Day One

GoSmarter’s Production tier gives you AI cutting plans tied to your certified, live inventory. Import your current order list and existing stock from a spreadsheet and run your first cutting plan in under an hour. Grade compliance is verified before any job starts. Scrap is tracked per cut. 50% off your first month, so the returns come before the full cost does.

Most teams see a measurable reduction in scrap within their first week of live use. Once you have a cutting plan running against real stock, the offcuts from each job automatically become available material for the next. That compounding effect, where remnants get used before new stock is ordered, is where the biggest savings come from.

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