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• Cut Waste - Long-products customers on rebar typically achieve 30–50% scrap reduction with GoSmarter cutting plans. At £600 per tonne for mild steel, saving one tonne of scrap per week is worth £30,000+ a year. The

  Business Case Calculator runs this for your specific volume and grade.

• First-quarter payback - Based on reduced scrap rates, recovered admin time, and avoided emergency procurement, most GoSmarter customers cover the annual cost within 90 days of go-live. We show the working in the

  Business Case Calculator. Your finance team can verify every number themselves.

• Protect revenue from late delivery - When production visibility is live, sales and operations know early enough to manage customer expectations. Fewer late deliveries means fewer credit notes, fewer penalty clauses, and a revenue line that matches the order book.
• Better Forecasts - Use real data from the floor to plan your cash. Stop waiting for month-end to discover where the margins went.
• Feeds your finance systems - GoSmarter tracks costs at production level and exports clean data to your accounting software or ERP. It is the production-floor data layer that makes your existing finance tools more accurate. Not a replacement for them.

The Numbers: What GoSmarter Recovers for a Typical Metals Business

Finance directors and business owners in metals manufacturing often ask the same question: what is this actually worth to us? Here are the three areas where GoSmarter delivers measurable returns.

Scrap Reduction

This is the largest single saving for most long-products manufacturers. Manual cutting plans generate avoidable scrap. Bars cut into lengths leaving unusable remnants because the planner did not know about offcuts already in the rack. Or because the plan was built from a spreadsheet that did not reflect yesterday’s deliveries.

GoSmarter’s mathematical optimiser knows about every available length and remnant. It finds the combination that minimises new material consumption. A business cutting mild steel bar at £600 per tonne saves £31,200 per year by eliminating one additional tonne of avoidable scrap per week. Run your specific volume through the

Business Case Calculator to see the figure for your operation.

Admin Cost Recovery

Manual cert processing, stock counting, and order chasing are not free. They consume staff time that has a real cost attached to it. Teams handling 200 or more certificates per month typically recover 8–12 hours of admin time per week after switching to GoSmarter. At a fully-loaded staff cost of £20–£25 per hour, that is £8,000–£15,000 per year recovered. These tasks add no value to the product you sell and no satisfaction to the people doing them.

Emergency Procurement Reduction

Businesses that do not track live inventory commitments regularly buy material they already have. The commitment was not visible and the apparent stock looked like free material. Emergency procurement carries a cost well beyond the material price: premium delivery charges, rushed processing fees, and management time spent resolving a crisis that should never have happened.

Customers who track live commitments in GoSmarter typically cut emergency procurement by 30–40% within the first quarter. That saving appears directly in the cost of goods sold (COGS) and compounds month after month.

Connecting Finance to the Floor

GoSmarter does not replace your accounting software or your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. It provides the production-level cost data your existing finance tools need to be accurate. Material costs, scrap write-offs, and stock values are captured at source: on the shop floor, in real time. They export to your ERP or accounting package via CSV or API. Your finance team gets numbers they can trust. No waiting for a month-end stock count. No manual reconciliation that takes three days and still contains errors.