Inventory Control
- Inventory availability by SKU, piece (steel coil or sheet), quality, warehouse and service center
- Inventory inquiries are designed to support on-line searches by:
- range of gauge, type of steel and form
- available for sale, or held for customer reservation
- allocation to customers and work orders
- Multiple units of measure: length, weight and square meters or square feet
- Tracking and order allocation based on matching heat number of steel plate, sheet and coil
Planning & Visual Schedule Board
- Planned cutting load and cutting orders released
- Available and required cutting capacity
- Material requirements and work in process
- Cutting schedules and delayed cutting Orders
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Purchasing, Receiving & Warehouse Mgt.
- Product specifications - type of steel, chemical property and heat number as part of purchase order and
shipping documentation
- Receiving - measuring ID, OD and minimum thickness compared to specifications
- Bin Locator System integrated with receiving and picking
- Shipping schedule - routing, loading sequence and truck weight balancing
- R.F. tracking supported with bar coding documents for picking, packing, staging, master bill of lading
and drop shipments across steel center and warehouses
Costing
- Costing by product and process supports single or multi-plant Steel Service operations
- Costing by number of line stops, run-time, number of cuts or slits and packaging requirements
- On-line cost roll-up based on routings and process or cutting sheets
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