Trace every heat, coil and bundle from scrap yard to the customer’s gate.
Steel mills melt, cast and roll material that ends up in buildings, vehicles and machines, so a buyer eventually asks which heat a bar came from. The steel mill software links each heat and lot to its chemistry, test results, yard location and dispatch. Certificates, orders and balances follow.
A mill is a chain of departments that each keep their own sheet. Purchase buys scrap, ore or billets. The melt shop charges a furnace. The rolling mill makes bars, coils or sections. Quality tests samples. Dispatch loads trucks. Accounts bill.
Steel mill management software puts one heat or lot number through all of them. When a customer queries a certificate or a failed test months after delivery, the answer is already on the record, not rebuilt from six separate registers by three tired people.
Sales staff take enquiries for grades, sizes and quantities, quote a rate and confirm an order against a delivery window. Purchase teams buy scrap, sponge iron, ferro alloys, electrodes and refractories from suppliers. Trucks arrive at the weighbridge and are weighed in. Samples go to the lab, and the lot is accepted or rejected before it ever reaches the yard or the furnace charge.
The melt shop plans furnace heats against the charge mix and records the tap. Billets or slabs move on. In the rolling mill, each run is planned by size and grade, and quality staff take samples at every stage to record chemistry, tensile strength and dimensions for the heat. Finished goods are tagged, weighed and stacked in a yard bay. Dispatch matches trucks to orders. Accounts raise invoices with test certificates attached, and credit teams chase balances from distributors, fabricators and contractors who buy on terms.
What goes wrong for steel mills without a proper system.
What we would build for steel mills.
Named the way your team already talks about the work. We start with whichever part the audit shows is costing you most.
A requirements checklist for steel mills.
What to cover, which reports to ask for and what to put to every vendor, ready to print or save as a PDF.
A product already built for steel mills.
It is adapted to how your business works before it goes live, and anything your trade needs that it lacks is added then.
Steel Mill Management Software
Orders, raw material, heat and lot traceability, test certificates, yard stock, dispatch and receivables for steel mills and re-rollers.
The business modules steel mills use most.
Each one is also available on its own, or inside a system built for you.
The services behind it.
Business Process Automation
Approvals, reminders, follow-ups and reports that run on their own instead of on someone remembering.
Learn moreERP, CRM and Business Software Implementation
One record of stock, orders, customers and accounts, set up so your team opens it every day.
Learn moreIoT and Edge Computing
Machines, meters and sensors feeding the same system your office uses, even when the network drops.
Learn moreData Engineering and Business Intelligence
Dashboards that answer the owner’s Monday questions without anyone building an Excel sheet first.
Learn moreHow the work runs from Bengaluru for your city.
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The audit, by call
A screen-share and a look at the sheets, Tally reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.
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A written proposal
Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.
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Build in short rounds
Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.
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Go-live, in person when it helps
For data migration and training we can come to your city. Travel is agreed in advance.
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Support online
Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.
Software we have built and run.
We only name clients whose work is published. These are systems our team designed, built and supports.
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Does it connect to furnace or rolling mill controls?
Not as standard. Operators enter heat data or load it from a file. A link to plant systems or weighbridge indicators is scoped separately, and what is possible depends entirely on your equipment and its data formats.
Can it print mill test certificates in a customer’s format?
Yes. Each certificate layout is drawn from the fields your lab already reports and built with your quality staff while the mill is configured. Which standards or customer formats apply is for your quality team to confirm.
Is it meant for integrated mills or small re-rollers?
Both can use it, though the set-up differs. A re-roller may skip melt shop modules and start from billet receipt. The first workshop decides the scope, after your plant layout and the departments that will use the system have been mapped out.
Can several plants or yards use one system?
Yes. Each plant or yard keeps its own stock and heats, and head office reads all of them together. Each country’s currency and tax rules apply to that plant’s own invoices.
What happens in the free technology audit?
We look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough to start. You get a report ordered by priority, and there is no obligation to hire us afterwards.
How much will the software cost?
We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. The audit settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.
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