Gain full visibility of your materials for higher margins

Stop running around the yard looking for steel.

• Real-Time Visibility: Know what you have without walking out to count it. Whether you hold coil, plate, bar, or tube, GoSmarter tracks every item by form, size, grade, and quantity available across multiple grades and dimensions.
• No more stockouts: Customers who track live inventory commitments typically cut emergency procurement by 30–40%. Stop paying premium prices for material you thought you had. It was committed to a job that shipped last week.
• Save Time: Focus on getting orders out, not chasing stock. Accurate stock visibility means accurate delivery promises. When sales quotes are based on what is genuinely available and not what the system said last Tuesday, on-time delivery stops being a lottery.
• Connects to your existing systems: Export stock data to your ERP or accounting software via CSV or API. Many customers run GoSmarter as their live production-floor view while the ERP handles invoicing. GoSmarter’s inventory data is more current and more granular than what the ERP typically tracks.
• Certificate-linked from day one: Every stock item is linked to its mill certificate from the moment material is received. Grade, heat number, and test results are visible alongside the stock record. No manual cross-referencing. When a customer asks for the cert for a specific delivery, your team retrieves it in seconds.

How GoSmarter Inventory Works in Practice

Here is what the process looks like for stock controllers and inventory managers in the first week.

Step 1: Import your existing stock. Upload a spreadsheet or add stock manually as material arrives. Either way, setup takes less than an hour. Your starting position is live before the end of day one. No consultant. No IT project.

Step 2: Log material as it arrives. When a delivery lands, your goods-in team records grade, form, length, weight, and quantity. If you use

MillCert Reader, the certificate links automatically at this point. The stock item carries full traceability from the moment it enters your facility. Heat numbers, mechanical properties, and grade data sit alongside the stock record. Nobody types a single value from a PDF.

Step 3: Allocate stock to live orders. When a new order comes in, GoSmarter shows what is genuinely available: not just what is physically on the rack, but what is uncommitted. 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. GoSmarter logs every material movement: rack to saw, main store to satellite site, goods-in to external processor. You always know where material is. No more “I thought that was in the other building” or a 20-minute yard walkabout before anyone can answer a simple question.

Step 5: Act on alerts before it becomes a crisis. GoSmarter notifies you when stock of a specific grade or dimension falls below your defined threshold. You raise a purchase order while you still have buffer stock. Not after production has stopped because the last bar went out on a job that shipped yesterday.

What Changes for Each Role

Stock controllers typically open GoSmarter first thing to check overnight activity. New deliveries logged by the night shift. Allocations made against late orders. The dashboard shows total stock value, uncommitted quantities by grade, and any items flagged as low. It replaces the morning walkabout that used to take 30 minutes before anyone knew what they actually had.

Yard managers use the location view. GoSmarter shows material by bay and rack. When a saw operator needs a specific length or grade, they look it up instead of walking the yard or calling the stock controller. That one change saves dozens of small interruptions every day and keeps the floor moving without constant back-and-forth between teams.

Production planners see committed versus available stock in the same view as their open order list. They know before they start planning whether the material exists. Jobs that used to get blocked at the saw, because allocated stock had already moved or was committed to another order, stop being a daily headache.