Saving Hours for Production Planners
Plan Smarter. Deliver Faster.
Generate first-draft cutting plans in minutes. Allocate and track the right material every time. Reduce scrap by up to 50% and keep orders moving from planning to dispatch.
Key Capabilities
Cutting Optimisation
Generate optimised cutting plans using live stock and offcuts to maximise material yield and reduce scrap.
Smart Material Allocation
Allocate the right material to every job using live inventory, mill certificates, and traceability data.
Live Inventory Visibility
See available stock, reserved material, and offcuts in real time to plan with confidence.
Production Readiness
Ensure material, certificates, and compliance checks are complete before work reaches the shop floor.
Order Tracking
Track every order from planning to dispatch with live production and inventory updates.
Offcut Management
Capture, store, and reuse offcuts to reduce waste, lower material costs, and improve profitability.
Stop doing busy work
The Opportunity
If you’re spending time on paperwork, you’re not making product. GoSmarter eliminates manual tasks that slow production and waste material.
- Faster Cutting Plans: Generate optimised cutting plans for bar, plate, tube, and sheet using available stock, reusable offcuts, and live orders. Review, adjust, and send them straight to production.
- Smarter Stock Use: Prioritise reusable offcuts and existing inventory before consuming new stock, reducing waste and unnecessary purchases.
- Built In Traceability: Mill certificates are automatically linked to the correct heat code and stock. If the material grade doesn’t match the job, GoSmarter flags it before production, preventing costly mistakes.
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
140+ hrs
Live in a Day
Faster Production Planning
Better On-Time Delivery
Works with Your Existing Systems
How a typical production day changes
Before GoSmarter, the morning starts with a stack of jobs. A planner manually matches them to available stock: checking a spreadsheet, walking the yard, ringing the stock controller. It takes 90 minutes to build a cutting plan that is already out of date by the time it prints.
After GoSmarter, the planner opens the app, reviews the live order list against real stock, and generates a first-draft cutting plan in minutes. The plan knows about available lengths, remnants from yesterday’s jobs, and grades linked to their mill certificates. The whole process takes 20 minutes.
That is not a theoretical improvement. It is what production planners who switch from manual planning to GoSmarter routinely report.
What each role gets back
Production Planners
Get time back. The 90-minute morning planning session drops to 20 minutes, an extra hour a day for optimising job sequences and handling urgent orders, not data entry and stock checking.
Saw Operators
Get clarity. Every job comes with a cutting plan specifying exact lengths, bar counts, and which stock to pull. No guesswork, no back-and-forth with the planner mid-shift.
Production Managers
Get visibility. See which jobs are in progress, waiting on material, or at risk of missing despatch, at any point in the day. Problems surface in planning, not when the lorry arrives.
Connecting production to the rest of the business
GoSmarter does not stop at the saw. When a cutting job is completed, the stock record updates automatically. Offcuts become live stock without anyone manually logging a remnant. Completed jobs link back to open orders, giving sales and despatch a live view of what is ready to ship.
When your inventory is accurate and your production progress is visible, the rest of the business can plan around it. Sales can give accurate lead times. Despatch can book haulage in advance. The operations manager can stop starting every morning with a crisis meeting about yesterday’s problems.
Customer Spotlight: Midland Steel
Midland Steel trialled GoSmarter’s Rebar Optimiser to tackle a problem that costs the industry millions: offcuts too short to reuse, going straight in the scrap bin.
The optimiser evaluates thousands of cutting combinations across a full order set, weighing bar utilisation, waste, and the carbon footprint of leftover material. Midland Steel ran it across 734 tonnes of steel and 193 jobs.
- 50% reduction in scrap
- Digital scrap tracking replacing paper records, via the Offcut Tracker and Scrap Weight Tracker apps
- Lower carbon emissions and lower cost of handling waste
“This collaboration has delivered concrete results, proving that smart technology can have a direct, measurable impact on reducing carbon emissions in steel manufacturing. The integration of AI and digital tracking has significantly improved our operational efficiency and sustainability performance.”
— Production Manager, Midland Steel
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 scrap reduction, admin time recovered, and fewer emergency purchases. Export a PDF to review with your finance team before booking a demo.
Common Questions
How much scrap can GoSmarter's Cutting Plans reduce?
In trials with long-products manufacturers, Cutting Plans has reduced scrap rates by up to 50% compared to manual cutting plans. The exact saving depends on your current process and the mix of orders you run, but any business generating off-cuts from bar, tube, or plate stock will see a measurable improvement.
What materials does Cutting Plans support?
Cutting Plans handles any linear cutting problem: steel bar, aluminium extrusion, tube, rebar, timber, and other long products. It is material-agnostic. If you’re cutting stock lengths to customer requirements and generating off-cuts in the process, the optimiser will find a better plan.
Does GoSmarter work with our existing production planning tools?
Yes. GoSmarter can integrate with existing workflows via CSV import/export and the REST API. Many customers use GoSmarter alongside a basic enterprise resource planning (ERP) or job-management system. GoSmarter handles the cutting plans and material allocation while the ERP manages the order book and invoicing.
How does GoSmarter handle quality checks during production?
Quality checks during production are not currently a GoSmarter feature. We think this is better handled in your manufacturing execution system or MES. That said, GoSmarter does automate compliance documentation and certificate traceability, removing a significant admin burden from the production process. If this is something you need, contact us.
AI Cutting Plans Against Certified Stock: From Day One
GoSmarter’s Production tier gives you AI cutting plans tied to your certified, live inventory. Import your current order list and existing stock from a spreadsheet and run your first cutting plan in under an hour. Grade compliance is verified before any job starts. Scrap is tracked per cut. 50% off your first month, so the returns come before the full cost does.
Most teams see a measurable reduction in scrap within their first week of live use. Once you have a cutting plan running against real stock, the offcuts from each job automatically become available material for the next. That compounding effect, where remnants get used before new stock is ordered, is where the biggest savings come from.
Go deeper
- Shop Floor Planning Software for Metals — how GoSmarter connects live inventory, open orders, and AI cut planning for your production floor
- Scrap, Waste & Yield Optimisation — the complete guide to reducing scrap in metals manufacturing with AI-powered cutting optimisation
- Spreadsheet-to-System Planning for Metals — how to move from Excel-based production planning to a connected, live system
- Midland Steel Manufacturing Case Study — how a leading rebar manufacturer cut scrap rates by 50% with optimised cutting plans
- AI tools for production scheduling in metals — a deep dive into how AI improves scheduling accuracy and reduces late orders
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.