GoSmarter for Production Planning
Save time so that you can focus more on getting orders out
GoSmarter shop floor planning software: live cutting plans, real-time stock allocation, and order tracking for metals manufacturers. Reduce scrap by up to 50%.
Key Capabilities
Cutting Optimisation
Automatically generate cutting plans that minimise off-cuts and reduce material waste across bar, plate, and sheet.
Production Scheduling
Plan and track orders through production with clear visibility of status and progress — no more chasing updates.
Material Allocation
Match available stock to live orders efficiently, reducing both over-allocation and stock-outs that stop production.
Scrap Tracking
Measure scrap at every stage of production to identify where waste is highest and why — then fix it.
The Opportunity
If you’re spending time shuffling paper, you’re not making product. Eliminate inefficiencies and manual tasks that slow you down.
- Fast Cutting Plans: Our production planner creates a starter cutting plan for bar, plate, tube, and sheet. It knows about your available lengths, your remnants from previous jobs, and the orders waiting in the queue. Use it daily to draft your schedule before you review it and assign it to your team. It understands steel. It does not need explaining.
- Smarter Use of Stock: The optimiser uses up usable offcuts and remnants first, minimising new stock consumption. When your cutting plans use existing stock intelligently, you stop ordering steel you already have in the rack.
- Pain-Free Lineage: We attach the mill certificate for each heat code to your stock automatically. And if the cert grade does not match what the job requires, GoSmarter flags it before the material hits the saw. No more hunting for PDFs. No more bad cuts on the wrong grade.
Cut the Scrap
Errors cost money. Scrap costs money. We help you stop making both. Use tools built for the shop floor, not the boardroom.
Why GoSmarter
Your team should be building things, not typing.
- Stop Wasting Time - Save 140 hours a year on data entry. That is based on teams spending 15–20 minutes per job on manual cert entry, planning updates, and stock lookups. At 3–5 jobs a day, the hours stack up fast. Your exact saving depends on your job volume. The
Business Case Calculator
runs it for your operation. - Stop Wasting Metal - Long-products customers on rebar and bar stock typically see 20–50% scrap reduction with GoSmarter cutting plans. At £600 per tonne for mild steel, saving one tonne of scrap per week is worth £30,000+ a year. The 50% figure comes from Midland Steel’s rebar operation.
- Better on-time delivery - When cuts are planned against live stock and live orders, last-minute allocation clashes stop. Jobs that were blocked by missing or mis-allocated material start moving again. On-Time In-Full (OTIF) improves because the information that used to delay decisions is always visible.
- Works with what you have - Can sit on top of your enterprise resource planning (ERP), spreadsheets, or job-management system. Infor, Epicor, Dynamics, Sage — whatever you run, you connect via
CSV
import or the <a href="/docs/integration-strategy/#api-integration"REST API. No IT project, no integration consultant.
- Plug and Play - No IT department required. Just log in and start working.
How a Typical Production Day Changes With GoSmarter
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 planner reviews it, makes any adjustments, and sends it to the floor. 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. The 90-minute morning planning session drops to 20 minutes. That is an hour a day spent on actual planning: optimising job sequences, handling urgent orders, reducing bottlenecks. Not on data entry and stock checking. Over a working year, that hour a day compounds into real capacity.
Saw operators get clarity. Each job comes with a cutting plan that specifies exact lengths, bar counts, and which stock to pull. There is no guesswork and no back-and-forth with the planner mid-shift. Operators work through the job list without stopping. No checking whether the right material is on the right rack. No wondering whether the remnant from the last job is still available.
Production managers get visibility. At any point in the day, they can see which jobs are in progress, which are waiting on material, and which are at risk of missing their despatch date. Problems surface in planning now, not at despatch. Wrong grade. Missing cert. Job still on the floor when the lorry arrives. All fixable before the lorry shows up.
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. If offcuts are generated, they become live stock without anyone manually logging a remnant. They are immediately available for future jobs. Completed jobs link back to open orders, giving sales and despatch a live view of what is ready to ship.
This connection between production, inventory, and despatch is what turns a planning tool into an operational system. 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.
Midland Steel
What is the payback for your operation?
Customers typically recover the annual subscription cost in reduced scrap and saved admin time within the first quarter. The free Business Case Calculator puts real pounds-and-pence projections behind every GoSmarter solution: scrap rate savings, staff hours recovered, emergency procurement avoided. Export a PDF your finance team can review without sitting through a demo first.
Common Questions
How much scrap can GoSmarter's Cutting Plans reduce?
What materials does Cutting Plans support?
Does GoSmarter work with our existing production planning tools?
How does GoSmarter handle quality checks during production?
Try GoSmarter Production Planning Free for 14 Days
GoSmarter is free to trial for 14 days. No credit card required. You can import your current order list and existing stock from a spreadsheet and run your first cutting plan in under an hour. The trial includes full access to Cutting Plans, Inventory Manager, and the scrap tracking dashboard.
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 — remnants 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
Get Off the Spreadsheets. For Good.
Manual processes are killing your profit. Stop doing things the hard way. Get the tools you need to run a modern shop.