Improving Throughput for Ops Managers
Smoother Operations with Connected Data
Connect production, inventory, quality, and dispatch in one place. Give your team the visibility to reduce delays, solve problems faster, and keep operations running smoothly.
Key Capabilities
Live Operations Dashboard
See production, inventory, quality, and dispatch in real time, giving you a single view of your operation.
Production Planning
Optimise cutting plans, material allocation, and production schedules to maximise throughput and minimise waste.
Material Readiness
Ensure the right material, certificates, and stock are available before production starts, reducing delays and downtime.
End-to-End Traceability
Track every material from goods in to dispatch with complete digital traceability linked to mill certificates and production.
Bottleneck & Exception Management
Identify production delays, missing materials, compliance issues, and other exceptions before they impact delivery.
Operational Performance
Monitor production progress, inventory, scrap, yield, and material utilisation to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver more orders on time.
Modern process automation for Operations teams
The Opportunity
Make your operations leaner and actually responsive to customers. Give your team tools they don’t need a PhD to use.
- MillCert Reader: Stop hunting for paper. Connect jobs to certs instantly. Crucial for customers who actually care about specs.
- Better Planning: Our cutting planner gets your day sorted faster and cuts your scrap rate.
- Inventory Control: Know what you have so you don’t buy what you don’t need.
Give your team a complete picture
Material history, cert data, and live stock. All in one place. Your team stops chasing records and starts making better decisions with the right information.
The Savings
Why GoSmarter
30–50%
Hours
Live in a Day
Fewer Production Delays
Better On-Time Delivery
More Throughput, Less Firefighting
What changes in the first 30 days
Operations managers who move from spreadsheets and email chains to GoSmarter consistently describe the same shift: they stop managing information and start managing work.
Information gaps show up immediately, not months later.
The daily 'where is this order?' calls drop sharply.
On-Time In-Full (OTIF) improves because the information is always visible.
Planners surface problems before they become stoppages.
What Each Role Gets Back
Operations Managers
Track order progress and spot recurring bottlenecks. The weekly planning meeting becomes forward-looking instead of a crisis debrief.
Customer Service Teams
Get a live order status view without ringing production, giving an instant answer when a customer chases a delivery.
Despatch Coordinators
See what's ready to ship and what's still in production, so haulage gets booked in advance instead of scrambled on the day.
See how Midland Steel achieved this in practice: Midland Steel case study.
Midland Steel gets real-time production visibility across every machine
Customer Spotlight: Midland Steel
Midland Steel’s production and management teams were spending significant time manually collecting data just to answer basic questions about throughput and performance.
GoSmarter built a live Cut & Bend production throughput dashboard, pulling data across every machine so the team can see performance over a rolling four-week period instead of chasing numbers after the fact.
- Hours saved for administrative and production teams every week
- Production KPI dashboards giving instant visibility to management
- Full visibility of performance across all machines, not just the ones someone remembered to check
- A foundation for future automation and AI-driven planning
Read the full Midland Steel Production Dashboards case study
What's the Payback?
Most customers recover their annual subscription within the first 90 days through reduced scrap and lower admin costs.
Use our free Business Case Calculator to estimate your savings from planning time recovered, and improved material utilisation. Export a PDF to build your business case before booking a demo.
Common Questions
How quickly can teams get operational with GoSmarter?
Most teams are using GoSmarter on day one. There’s no lengthy onboarding process and no IT project to run. You log in, connect your data, and start tracking orders. The tools are built to be picked up without training courses. If your team can use a smartphone, they can use GoSmarter.
Does GoSmarter replace our existing ERP?
No, GoSmarter works alongside your existing systems. Most customers use GoSmarter as the production-floor layer: the place where real-time operational data lives and where the day-to-day work happens. The ERP handles billing, procurement, and reporting. GoSmarter handles what’s actually happening on the shop floor, right now.
How does GoSmarter improve on-time delivery?
By giving everyone in production, sales, and customer service a live view of order status, GoSmarter eliminates the time wasted chasing updates. Delivery promises are based on actual progress rather than last week’s figures. When orders slip, the team knows early enough to do something about it rather than finding out at despatch.
Can multiple departments use GoSmarter simultaneously?
Yes. GoSmarter is designed for cross-functional use. Production, quality, compliance, and sales teams all see the same live data, which means decisions are based on the same picture. No more conflicting spreadsheets, no more “which version is current?” It’s one system, one source of truth.
Does GoSmarter keep a record of who changed order specs and workflow data?
Yes. Every change to an order, order line, or workflow record in GoSmarter is captured in a permanent log: who made the change, what the original value was, what it changed to, and when. If an order spec changes mid-production, the trail is there. If a record is deleted, it is tracked and recoverable.
This matters day-to-day: when something goes wrong, you can pinpoint what changed and when rather than guessing. It also covers the documentation requirements of ISO 9001 Clause 8.5.2, International Automotive Task Force (IATF) 16949, and AS9100. Read the full announcement → or why audit trails matter in metals manufacturing →
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 →
Go deeper
- GoSmarter for Metals Operations — the complete guide to every GoSmarter capability and how they connect
- No-Code Workflows for Metals SMEs — how GoSmarter delivers operational improvements without an IT team or implementation project
- Midland Steel Manufacturing Case Study — how a market-leading steel supplier streamlined operations across production, compliance, and planning
- 10 signs your metal shop needs process automation — find out if your operational problems are bigger than you think
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.