Find the right material
Distinguish similar stock by specification, location, and traceability reference.
Steel manufacturing
Keep the material identity with the production record.
Steel businesses work with materials that differ by grade, size, weight, and processing stage. Discuss how raw materials, work in progress, finished products, and scrap should be recorded across your operation.
Built around your business
Turn daily activity into a clearer business view.
A quantity alone does not identify steel stock. Teams also need grade, dimensions, weight, and the relevant heat or lot reference. Keeping that identity through conversion, inspection, and delivery makes stock selection and production reconciliation easier to follow.
Explain material recovery
Review finished output and scrap against the material issued.
Support delivery checks
Keep dispatch quantities and quality-document references together.
Solution capabilities to scope
What your steel manufacturing solution should connect.
Build the scope around the records your team uses, the decisions it makes, and the exceptions it needs to manage.
01 / SOLUTION AREA
Item and material records
Define the grades, dimensions, units, and heat or lot references your team needs to identify material.
02 / SOLUTION AREA
Production and conversion
Map material issues, intermediate stages, finished output, cutting or rolling loss, and scrap records relevant to your process.
03 / SOLUTION AREA
Stock and dispatch
Review stock by location and material specification, with the weight and quantity information needed for delivery and billing.
04 / SOLUTION AREA
Quality and costing
Discuss inspection records, certificate references, material costs, and the reports required to review production performance.
Recommended starting point
SAP Business One
Review the workflow with LITPL before choosing the software. Core finance, purchasing, inventory, and sales can form the ERP foundation; sector-specific processing, quality, costing, and equipment connections may need configuration, add-ons, or custom development.
Explore the solution approach ↗An example operational workflow
How the work moves from start to finish.
Follow a typical transaction through the business. We adapt the sequence, approvals, and handovers to your operation during discovery.
- 01
Identify incoming material
Record grade, dimensions, weight, supplier, and heat or lot references appropriate to your process.
Key record
Identified material receipt
- 02
Issue to production
Allocate material to the job or production order and record transfers through the applicable melting, rolling, cutting, or fabrication stages.
Key record
Job material issue
- 03
Capture output and scrap
Record finished quantities, intermediate stock, recoverable scrap, and process loss using agreed units of measure.
Key record
Output and scrap reconciliation
- 04
Inspect and allocate stock
Keep inspection or certificate references with released stock, then select the required grade and size for the customer order.
Key record
Released stock and order allocation
- 05
Dispatch by agreed quantity
Reconcile the actual dispatch weight or quantity with delivery documents and billing, then review job costs and material recovery.
Key record
Dispatch and job-cost record
Reporting priorities
Know what to review.
Know which records support it.
Agree report definitions, date ranges, ownership, and source transactions before implementation. Use these industry-specific views as a starting point for your reporting scope.
- Stock by grade, size, and location
- Heat or lot movement history
- Production yield and scrap recovery
- Job cost and weight-based dispatch reconciliation
Implementation approach
A practical path from discovery to daily use.
Agree the scope and acceptance criteria first, then prepare the data and people who will run the process.
- 01
Discover the operation
Walk through a real transaction with your operations and accounts teams. Agree the priorities, exceptions, and reports.
- 02
Design and configure
Confirm product fit, responsibilities, approvals, and data fields. Scope any add-ons, custom workflows, and integrations.
- 03
Prepare opening data
Clean and map master records, opening stock, balances, and active transactions. Reconcile the data before migration.
- 04
Test and train
Run representative transactions and exceptions with your users. Verify calculations, reports, access, and operating procedures.
- 05
Go live and review
Agree the cutover plan and support arrangements. Review early transactions and resolve issues with the responsible team.
Before you decide
Your industry questions, answered.
How are pieces, lengths, and weights handled?
Agree the purchasing, production, stock, and billing units for each item group. Where actual weight differs from theoretical weight, the workflow should capture the required measurement and conversion rules rather than assume one fixed conversion fits every item.
What determines the implementation scope and cost?
The scope depends on your users, locations, opening data, approvals, reporting, and integrations. We review a representative workflow and agree what uses standard functionality, what needs configuration, and what needs additional development before preparing the proposal.
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