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STEELMAN Software Solutions Inc. (SSSI) a privately held company of Toronto, Ontario creator of the Steel Service Center Software. Our computer software solution is based on the SSSI’s Steel Enterprise Management Systems® (SEMS®).  SSSI has been building leading technology solutions for the steel industry since 1994 by leveraging technological expertise and industry partnerships against the team’s real-world expertise in making, shaping and shipping steel products.  SSSI maintains key industry partnerships to help us to provide seamlessly integrated, leading technology solutions to your business.  SSSI has implemented solutions in both fully integrated steel mills and multi-site service centers. SSSI is an Independent Software Vender (ISV) and is a Certified Oracle Partner, SAGE ACCPAC Business Partner, VMware.

Steel Enterprise Management Systems® SEMS

STEELMAN Best Practices are the easiest way to set up a business solution that provides unlimited scalability, best-of-breed functionality, complete integration, and easy collaboration for your Metal Business. With SEMS Service Center Software Solution, you can reap business benefits quickly and eliminate as much risk as possible. SEMS provides you with the combined benefits of a powerful solution and proven business expertise that stems from over 15 years collaborative efforts between STEELMAN and its metal customers.

SEMS is designed to reduce operational costs, increase revenues and better manage metal service centers, distributors and processors through its state of the art web based information technology. SEMS provides integration from Quote to Invoicing and Purchasing to Payment. The integration insures high level of customer service for your customers with real-time information.

SEMS addresses the unique requirements of metal manufacturers, which are not easily adaptable to generic ERP products.  SEMS Automates the metal specific set up of customer-vendor-product profiles by shape and metal properties, standards, grades, chemistries and other customer requirements. SEMS reduces operational costs due to its efficiencies of being a metal specific solution and allows for reduction of human errors and claims and associated costs.

SEMS can save you substantial inventory costs by the use of our “Demand Planning” and Inventory Management modules. By reporting all of the demands placed on you by each customer, you are able to lower inventory costs by planning for these demands based upon historical sales, current sales and purchasing activities, therefore; having just the right amount materials on-hand. Best of all our system maintains a perpetual list of sales and inventory activities for better management reporting. This allows everyone from sales, to production and executive management to accurately manage all aspects of your service center. You have all the integrated tools at hand to run a more effective, efficient and profitable sales and service oriented team.

Major Modules and Features

Business Partner Management Customer Manager Vendor Manager
Product Catalog Shapes and Attributes Grade – Test – Process
Contract Management Master Orders Forecast – Plan – Releases
Sales Order Management Quotes – track wins / losses Formula based pricing and costing
Production Management Provisioned routing Graphical material cutting planner
Fabrication Management MRP – BOM Traceability to source material
Inventory Management Tag and heat geology Detailed costing at tag level
Purchasing Management Mill orders metal specific data Three way matching on vendor bills
Demand Planning Forecasted demand on actual data Historical and planned usage
Warehouse Management Multiple sites and locations Integrated barcode scanning
Cost Management Standard and actual costing Distributed production costing
Shipping Management Load planning prior to production Validate loads for error free shipments
Claims Management Integrated customer  / vendor claims Linked to corrective action request CAR
Quality Management System wide test and validations Claims and CAR integration
Integrated Messaging Alerts users of tasks Workflow driven functionality
Document Management Upload and store external media any file PDF, Microsoft Office Docs, Scanned Imaged Docs, etc
Report Management Large number of integrated reports Easy integration to third-party reporting tools
API – to third party accounting Interface to Accpac GL – AR – AP Other accounting solutions available

Steelman SEMS How to look up customers

CUSTOMER RECOMMENDATION

” I have installed and upgraded the biggest and the smallest ERP systems in over 45 factories over the past 30 years. The Steelman Installation was one of the easiest projects of all. Even though it had the complexity required to run our international location, it was easy to setup and easy to teach. Very good service for such a small Support Group. ”
John D’Avella – Steel Warehouse Project Manager

The Steelman Advantages – At a Glance

METAL SPECIFIC

  • Shape Based
  • Industry Standard and Grades
  • Heats and Chemistry
  • Metal Testing and Quality
  • Attributes
  • Metal Terminology

UNIQUE METAL FUNCTIONALITY

  • Attribute Based Inventory Search
  • Outside Processing
  • Toll Processing
  • Industry specific Master Orders, Inquiries, Sales and Purchase Orders
  • Tag and Heat Genealogy
  • Sales and Vendor Pricing Agreements
  • Full Costing History
  • Production Planning and Recording
  • Scrap Control
  • Customer and Vendor Claims
  • Customer Consignments / Vendor Consignments
  • Storage Program

RULE BASED

To suite the special needs of your business without costly customizations. For example: based on the Product, Grade, Size, Properties, and other attributes defined by you, calculate or select the followings:

  • Pricing and Costing
  • Work Center Capabilities
  • Throughput Rates
  • Preferred Work Centers
  • Default Yield Losses
  • Standard Tolerances
  • Acceptable Test Results

INTERNATIONAL CAPABILITY

  • Multi Currency
  • Multi Units of Measure
  • Multi Language
  • North American Customs Papers

MANAGEMENT TOOLS

  • Purchasing Demand Planning
  • Production Demand Management
  • Contract Management
  • Profitability Analysis
  • Performance Tracking Screens / Reports
  • An assortment of other Reports

OTHER FEATURES

  • Built-in Alerts as well as user triggered Alerts for attentions
  • Emails
  • Bar Code and Scanning
  • Notes throughout the System
  • External Documents and Images
  • Drill Downs

EASY IMPLEMENTATION

  • User Configurable Screens
  • User Configurable Rules
  • User Definable Field Labels and Hints.
  • User Definable Sorting of Displayed Data
  • There is no need to deploy all of SEMS functionality from Day 1.  But if you do – now, or in the future as your business grows – SEMS are here to serve you.
  • 100% designed for the Metal Industry, in the metal language you are accustomed to, for straight-forward implementation and use.  No need to spend enormous cost and time to tweak and customize a generic system and run the risk of it not working for your business.

GLOBAL BUSINESS PARTNERS

A network of certified partners delivers Steelmans’ Steel Enterprise Management Systems™ (SEMS™) products across the globe. Each partner has been selected because they share our commitment to excellence in service, implementation, training and support. Experts in the fields of Metal – manufacturing, logistics, material handling, warehousing and distribution, they understand that every service center is different. They offer local, personal service and support to make sure that you receive the Steelman solution that meets your unique needs.

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ORACLE GOLD STANDARDS

As an ORACLE GOLD PARTNER, STEELMAN has the BEST COMMERCIAL METALS PROCESSOR and SERVICE CENTER PROCESSING Solution in the MES/ERP market today. Steelman computer software is 100% Oracle database compliant and uses Oracle’s latest development tools and components in its STEEL/METALS solution.  SEMS® is specific ‘knowledgeware’ and our strength comes from a proven understanding of the steel business gained from hands on experience. Helping you get the right information to the right person at the right time to enable them to make great decisions!

Steelman Software Solutions Inc.
4850 Keele Street First Floor
Toronto, ON, M3J 3K1
Canada
Telephone: +1-416-495-6939
email: info@esteelman.net

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