Steel Processing & Services
JOMAR’s ‘SPS’ Software solutions support steel processes in mini-mills and single or multi-site steel service locations
Quotations
- On-line search for quotations and order booking to match the customer's specifications:
- Inventory availability by range of gauge, type of steel, form and dimensions
- Already cut sheet or coil and new coil to be cut or slit and last sales to customer
- Quotations configured and integrated with 'roll-over' to order booking
- Selling price by type of material, number of cuts, cost per cut, scrap, packaging and freight
- Sales history by type of steel, gauge, cutting dimensions and thickness
Planning for Steel Processes and Services
- ‘What-if’ planning scenario for required and available capacity
- Mill capacity (i.e continuous casting, rolling, forming)
- Service capacity (cutting and slitting)
- Planned and released orders
- mill processing (casting, rolling and forming)
- welding and fabrication
- engineered steel
- cutting and slitting steel service orders
- Material Requirements Planning for mini-mill processes and services
Scheduling Steel Processes and Services
- Mini-mill orders (casting, hot/cold rolled and forming)
- Welding and fabrication orders
- Engineered steel orders
- Cutting and schedule parameters for:
- type of steel
- gauge and number of line stops
- customer owned steel processed for cutting fee
- optimizing cut by using minimum number of coils and considering slit-width
- mapping defects as a guide to cutting or slitting
Visual Schedule Board
The Visual Schedule Board improves the utilization of available capacity and enhances the flow of material across mini steel mills and service facilities. Services can be scheduled in real-time as the customers’ sales and services require it. Schedulers review and select jobs for either auto or manual loading of cutting orders.
JOMAR’s Visual Schedule Board links customer-purchase-work orders to inventory availability, work-in-process and machine schedules to provide real-time information for production schedulers, customer services, buyers and shippers.
Inventory Control
- Inventory availability by SKU, 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
- Order allocation based on matching heat number of steel coils
- Calculations for piece, length and weight based on user defined dimensions
Purchasing, Receiving and Warehouse Management
- 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
Quality Control Specifications and Tests
- User defined test characteristics, parameters, tolerances and templates
- Test specifications and results supported by job, product, process, lot, coil, piece and customer or vendor raw material
- Test history maintained by version
- Test results integrated with event-triggered e-mail notification and document management
- Mill test reports and non-conformance reports
Costing
The on-line cost roll-up supports processes across mini steel mills and single and multi-site steel service centers.
- Costing by job number and product
- Process costing supports: continuous casting, hot and cold rolling, forming, coating,
wire drawing, cutting and slitting
Workflow Management
The Workflow Management includes e-mail notification and event triggered action messages to enhance flow of material across full service supply chain, customer services, purchasing, manufacturing and warehouse locations.
Financials
Financials include the General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank Services, budgeting and financial statement generation. Drill-downs are integrated with source transactions across the Enterprise Software application suite. Multicompany Financial Consolidation reporting is provided for domestic business operations and across global business locations at the selected currency.
