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Eliminating Stockouts for Stock Controllers

Full Visibility for Higher Margins

Know exactly what stock you have, where it is, and what it is committed to. Eliminate manual stock-checks and out of date spreadsheets.

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Key Capabilities

Real-Time Stock Visibility

Know exactly what material you have on hand, including location and status, without walking the yard to count it.

Material Tracking

Follow material from goods-in to despatch with no gaps in the trail. Every movement logged, every location recorded.

Commitment Management

See what stock is allocated to live orders so you know what is genuinely available for new work.

Reorder Alerts

Get notified when stock falls below defined thresholds before it becomes a production stoppage.

ERP & Inventory Integration

Connect Mill Certificate data directly to inventory, production, and ERP systems to eliminate duplicate data entry and improve operational visibility.

Complete Material Traceability

Link every Mill Certificate to the correct stock, heat number, project, and customer for full end-to-end traceability.

Make inventory management your competitive edge

The Opportunity

Steel inventory stored in a metals manufacturing yard

If you don’t know what metal you have, you’re losing money. It’s that simple.

As a stock controller, you need to see what’s on the rack right now. Grade, size, and quantity, both available and committed. No walking the yard to check.

GoSmarter tracks your scrap too, so you know what it costs. You can start reducing it straight away.

Offcuts from previous cuts stay live in stock, not forgotten in the corner. Your planners reach for them before ordering new steel.

If you use MillCert Reader, every stock item carries its full certificate history: grade, heat number, and mechanical properties. GoSmarter links each cert automatically when you receive the material. No manual entry. No missing paperwork.

Less scrap. Better material traceability.

Know exactly what material went into every job — certified, traced, and accounted for. Cut smarter, waste less, and have the evidence when a customer asks.

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The Savings

Why GoSmarter

Less emergency purchasing
30–40%
Our Metals Manager gives you live inventory commitments, so you stop buying material you already own.
Real-time inventory visibility 100%
Saved every week automating updates Hours
What You Get
100% Certificate-Linked Stock
Every stock item links to its mill certificate, giving instant access to grades, heat numbers, and test results.
Fewer Stockouts, Better Deliveries
Give sales accurate stock availability so delivery promises are reliable and production delays drop.
Works with Your Existing ERP
Export clean stock data via CSV or API. No rip-and-replace required.

How it works in practice

Here is what the process looks like for a stock controller in the first week.

Step 1 · Import your existing stock

Live before the end of day one.

Upload a spreadsheet or add stock manually as material arrives. Either way, setup takes less than an hour.
No consultantNo IT project
Step 2 · Log material as it arrives

Certificates link automatically. Nobody types a value from a PDF.

Goods-in records grade, form, length, weight, and quantity. If you use MillCert Reader, heat numbers, mechanical properties, and grade data sit alongside the stock record from the moment it enters your facility.
Step 3 · Allocate stock to live orders

See what's genuinely available, not just what's on the rack.

Sales can quote accurately. Production knows what to pull. Nobody allocates the same bar twice, or promises material that shipped on a job last week.
Step 4 · Track movements across locations

Always know where material is. No 20-minute yard walkabout.

Every material movement is logged: rack to saw, main store to satellite site, goods-in to external processor.
Step 5 · Act on alerts before it becomes a crisis

Reorder while you still have buffer stock, not after production stops.

GoSmarter notifies you when stock of a specific grade or dimension falls below your defined threshold, so you raise a purchase order in time.

What Each Role Gets Back

Stock controllers feel the day-to-day benefit most, but the visibility reaches further.

Stock Controllers

Check overnight activity first thing: new deliveries, late-order allocations, low-stock flags. Replaces the 30-minute morning walkabout.

Yard Managers

See material by bay and rack instead of walking the yard or calling the stock controller for every lookup.

Production Planners

See committed versus available stock alongside the open order list. Know before planning whether the material exists.
Midland Steel company logo

Midland Steel digitalises offcut and scrap tracking to cut waste

Customer Spotlight: Midland Steel

Midland Steel was tracking offcuts and scrap on paper and in spreadsheets, with no easy way to see what material was sitting in storage waiting to be reused.

GoSmarter’s Offcut Tracker and Scrap Weight Tracker apps replaced the paper process. Operators tag and log offcut material as it’s generated, moving it into designated storage for reuse, and log outgoing scrap weight digitally instead of on a clipboard.

  • Every offcut tracked by stock tag, bars, length, machine, and diameter
  • Scrap weight logged digitally, replacing paper records
  • Weekly reviews now use real scrap figures as a key metric
  • Better reuse of existing offcut stock instead of buying new material

Read the full Midland Steel Waste Management case study

What's the Payback?

Most customers recover their annual subscription within the first 90 days through reduced administration, lower compliance costs, and fewer quality issues.

Use our free Business Case Calculator to estimate savings from fewer stockouts, lower inventory costs, and less administration. Export a PDF to review savings with your team and then book your demo.

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Common Questions

Does GoSmarter keep an audit trail of inventory changes?
Yes. GoSmarter logs every change to an inventory record automatically: receipts, drawdowns, transfers, corrections, allocations, and deletions. Each entry records the original value, the new value, who made the change, and a server-side timestamp. GoSmarter tracks deleted items and lets you recover them. That covers the documentation requirements of ISO 9001 Clause 8.5.2, International Automotive Task Force (IATF) 16949, and AS9100. See why audit trails matter in metals manufacturing →
How long does it take to get inventory tracking up and running?
Most teams are live within a day. You can import existing stock from a spreadsheet or add items manually. There’s no lengthy implementation, no consultant required, and no waiting for an IT project to complete. If you can log into a website, you can use GoSmarter Inventory.
Can GoSmarter track materials across multiple locations?
Yes. GoSmarter tracks stock by location, so you can see what is at your main site, a satellite store, or an off-site facility, all from the same view. Transfers between locations are logged, giving you a complete audit trail without anyone having to fill in a paper movement sheet.
Can I define my own warehouse, yard, and bin structure?
Yes. Locations are fully configurable, covering warehouses, yards, bins, racking systems, machine locations, receiving areas, and en-route or in-transit status. Filter and manage stock by location alongside material, grade, and type, using the structure your site already works to rather than one the software imposes.
Does GoSmarter integrate with our ERP or accounting system?
GoSmarter works standalone or alongside your existing systems. Stock data can be exported via CSV or pushed to other systems via API. Many customers run GoSmarter as their production-floor source of truth while their ERP handles billing and procurement, because GoSmarter’s inventory data is more current and more granular than what the ERP typically holds. See the integration strategy for the full picture, or browse the API documentation directly.
How does inventory link to mill certificates?
If you use MillCert Reader, certificate data links automatically to stock items when material is received. This means every item in your inventory carries its full certificate history, including grade, heat number, and mechanical properties, without anyone manually entering it.

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. a 7-day free trial.

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.

Go deeper

Build traceability in. From day one.

Every cert linked to stock at goods-in. Every heat number tracked to despatch. Every audit trail built automatically. Not assembled in a rush the week before an inspection.

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