Today
A customer needs a cut length of SS304 bar with its mill test certificate. There may already be a suitable offcut in the godown.
A practical build example
Find the material. Find its certificate. In the same place.
A product code tells you what an item is. It does not tell you which bundle is free, where it is stored or which certificate belongs to it.
SS 304 · Round bar
Heat numberHT–0482Rack locationB / 04Length3,200 mmStock statusNot reserved
Material and documents. Together.
One job. Too many handoffs.
01
Sales checks the stock sheet and asks stores to find a suitable piece.
02
Stores checks racks and leftover lengths by hand.
03
The office searches email folders for the correct heat certificate.
04
After cutting, the remaining piece goes back without an updated record.
How we would build it.
Connected steps.
Clear checks along the way.
Label material when it arrives
Record the received batch, grade, size, heat number, quantity and rack location. Attach the reviewed mill test certificate to that batch and give it a scannable label.
Your team checks
Stores checks the physical marking against the record. The certificate must match the batch, not just the grade.
Show what is actually available
Search by grade, section and required length. Show usable remnants as well as full stock. Exclude reserved material and QC holds from the available balance.
Your team checks
Confirm customer-specific requirements before selecting a substitute or a remnant.
Record the cut and what remains
Reserve the selected piece. After cutting, record the measured remainder and cutting loss. Give the remnant its own label and keep its link to the original heat.
Your team checks
The operator confirms the actual remaining length. A nominal subtraction does not account for saw kerf and trimming.
Send the right document with the right piece
Build the dispatch document pack from the selected batches. Keep the material history through splits, processing and returns, so a later quality query can be traced backwards.
Your team checks
Missing or mismatched certificates are held for review before release.
What your team
stops doing.
Searching racks for unlabelled remnants
Hunting through emails for an MTC
Promising material already reserved
Reconstructing the material history after dispatch
What we need to get started +
- Batch and heat-number records
- Rack and warehouse locations
- Certificate files
- Cutting, reservation and QC rules