Steel Manager III
About Steel Manager III
Improve Efficiencies, Increase Sales & Reduce Costs with Steel Manager III Cloud ERP
STEEL MANAGER III CLOUD ERP FOR METAL SERVICE CENTERS
Steel Manager III (SM3) is a fully integrated, cloud-based ERP software solution for metal service centers. Developed exclusively for the metals industry over nearly 40 years, SM3 is designed to meet the complex operational requirements of today’s steel service centers, metal distributors, and metal processing companies.
As a comprehensive metal service center management software platform, Steel Manager III helps businesses improve efficiency, increase sales opportunities, streamline operations, and reduce costs across every department.
Steel Manager III is a complete ERP solution for the steel and metals industry, featuring modern, user-friendly screens and highly automated workflows. SM3 provides all the functionality required by modern metal service centers, including:
- Inventory Management
- Purchasing
- EDI Integration
- Quoting & Sales Management
- Linear Nesting
- Plate Nesting Integration
- Inside & Outside Processing
- Production Scheduling
- Picking & Shipping Manifest
- Integrated Accounting
- Advanced Reporting
- Barcoding
- Customer Portal & eCommerce Integration
- Material Test Report (MTR) Management
- And much more
The flexibility of SM3 makes it an ideal ERP system for metal distributors and steel service centers, whether you operate as a general line distributor or specialize in:
- Pipe & Tube
- Valves & Fittings
- OCTG Products
- Tool Steel
- Bar & Plate
- Flat Rolled Products
- Perforated & Expanded Metal
- Mesh & Wire Rope
- Specialty & Structural Steel
- Architectural Metals
- Other metal products and processing operations
Key Features of Steel Manager III Metal Service Center Software
Steel Manager III includes powerful features designed specifically for the metals industry:
- Modern, user-friendly interface screens
- Intuitive system navigation
- Highly automated ERP workflows
- Complete inventory control, including remnant tracking
- Full visibility of domestic and foreign material inventory
- Fast quote and sales order creation
- Automated processing cost capture
- Complete inventory traceability
- Automated delivery of Material Test Reports (MTRs)
- Linear nesting optimization
- Buy and sell in any unit of measure
- Complete barcode functionality
- Advanced production scheduling
- Shipping manifest management
- Detailed document tracking
- Plate nesting integration
- eCommerce customer portal
- Task management tools
- Quick report generation from hundreds of built-in reports
- Automated document delivery by email or fax
Steel Manager III from 4GL Solutions is a proven cloud ERP software platform for metal service centers, helping steel distributors and metal processing companies increase productivity, improve inventory accuracy, enhance traceability, and deliver superior customer service.
Open Client Architecture
Our Open Client architecture allows users to connect to SM3 from any device, anywhere in the world with an Internet connection using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
Streamline Your Metal Operations
Steel Manager III Highlights
Inventory Control
- Total inventory control in real-time, including remnants
- Full traceability on all inventory
- Automated delivery of MTRs (Certifications)
- EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) capability
- Complete barcode functionality
- Variety of inventory management tools
Purchasing
Multiple Remarks can be entered against the PO. and can be printed at the top of the first page only, at the top of every page, at the end of the document, or after every line item on the document.
- Automatically monitors usage of raw materials and finished goods
- Inventory Reorder reports
- Vendor sourcing program
- Import purchase orders from Excel
Quotes & Sales Orders
- Quick and easy quote & order creation
- Sales staff have real-time, instant access to all inventory items, in all locations
- Integrated quote follow-up screen
- Preview quotes & orders
- Quote or sell in any unit of measure
- Multi-currency
- Automatically capture processing costs on quotes and orders
- Excel import capability for both quotes and orders
- Order creation with customer parts
- Sophisticated price books
- Profitability checks
- Automatically Email quotes & orders to customers
Production
- Accommodates any inside or outside processing
- Advanced Production Schedule
- Filter columns by date, raw material etc.
- Plate nesting integration to SigmaNEST
- Attach a picture of plate drops to inventory items
- Integrated linear nesting capability
- Track processing time with handheld scanners
- Complete shipping manifest system
Shipping Manifest
- Orders are automatically added to the shipment manifest
- Schedule trucks by shipping route
- Barcode scan load confirmations
Reporting
- Over 300 standard reports
- Generate reports in seconds
- Export reports to Excel
- Receive automated reports in your Email in PDF format
- Management Dashboards showing key metrics
Integrated Accounting
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- General Ledger
- Credit controls on all orders
- Customer credit history
- Unlimited notes against customer
- Integrated cash book & bank reconciliation
- Ability to drill down to document level
- Multi-currency capability
CRM Functionality
- Enter unlimited notes for customers, accessible by all staff
- Potential customer database
- Instantly view all quotes, and quotes that turned into orders
- View all open orders for the customer
- Schedule follow-up dates for quotes
- Instantly view online the total units, sales dollars, margin & margin % for customers
- Open quote or sales order reports can be automatically Emailed to sales staff
- Daily sales report can be automatically sent to management and sales staff
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