Purpose-Built for Metals Products
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 Eliminate manual stock-checks and out of date spreadsheets.
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
If you don’t know what metal you have, you’re losing money. It’s that simple.
- Inventory Manager: Know exactly what’s on the rack right now, by grade, size, and quantity available versus committed.
- Scrap Logger: Track your scrap so you know what it’s costing and start reducing it.
- Offcut Manager: Stop buying new steel when you have perfectly good offcuts sitting in the corner. GoSmarter tracks remnants from previous cuts as live stock, so your planners use them before reaching for new material.
- Cert-linked stock: 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.
The Savings
Why GoSmarter
30–40%
100%
Hours
100% Certificate-Linked Stock
Fewer Stockouts, Better Deliveries
Works with Your Existing ERP
How it works in practice
Here is what the process looks like for stock controllers and inventory managers in the first week.
Live before the end of day one.
Certificates link automatically. Nobody types a value from a PDF.
See what's genuinely available, not just what's on the rack.
Always know where material is. No 20-minute yard walkabout.
Reorder while you still have buffer stock, not after production stops.
What Each Role Gets Back
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 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
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.
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.
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. 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.
Go deeper
- Audit Trails: Why They Matter in Metals Manufacturing — how GoSmarter’s immutable audit trail covers inventory, orders, and certificates end-to-end, and what ISO 9001, IATF 16949, and AS9100 require
- GoSmarter for Metals Operations — how inventory management fits into the full GoSmarter production toolkit
- Scrap, Waste & Yield Optimisation — how smarter inventory control directly reduces material waste and improves yield
- Midland Steel Manufacturing Case Study — how a market-leading rebar supplier gained real-time inventory visibility linked to mill certificates
- Your S&OP Meeting Is Built on the Wrong Numbers — how real-time, cert-linked inventory data de-risks Sales and Operations Planning and eliminates ghost stock
- Manual vs digital inventory tracking: which saves more time? — a direct comparison with worked numbers
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.