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Component module

1. Inventory
   1. Manage Inventory to maximize value, customer satisfaction and ROI. SEMS provides the most comprehensive metals-industry specific inventory management capability. This focus and ability infuses every related business module and process.
   2. Gain the advantage of practical, advanced and comprehensive processes for metal processing inventory management, including handling shape and attribute-based properties.
2. Order Entry
   1. Seize a sales and business advantage in processing orders through a combination of capabilities:

1. i.      Comprehensive metals-specific customer requirement specification
2. ii.      Advanced competitive and comparative pricing and costing ability to win the right quotes
3. iii.      Management and monitoring of production to meet customer expectations every time
4. iv.      Production and inventory delivery planning that can deliver on time.
5. Get the financial control you need to run your company effectively from a fully integrated advanced accounting system of your choice
6. Take control of operations with immediate and real-time review and summation of:
   1. purchase invoices
   2. receipts
   3. accurate inventory values in multi-locations and transit
   4. sales based on shipment, storage or toll processing
   5. freight
   6. credit and debit notes
   7. Accurate records of Production transformation of inventory, including scrap and production loss ratios

1. Management Reporting
   1. In these challenging times, understanding the flow and trends in your business are exceptionally important. You require information summaries that are based on real-time data with drill-down capability that will quickly identify issues and problems and provide you with the ability to make an early impact and right the ship. SEMS places critical information in your hands for decisions today based on today’s data.
   2. Gain control of multi-plant, multi-location business with consolidated reporting and effective comparative data that identifies potential problems immediately.
2. Production
   1. Manage the production resources effectively; demand a clear view of order requirements, inventory availabilities, planned shift time, competing order priorities, throughput rates and critical dates.
   2. Enhance the critical customer relationship that relies on delivering what you promise. Monitor and plan each work centre, which potentially represents a road block or bottle neck to a multi-million dollar order.
   3. Do every small thing right to provide customer satisfaction and gain dramatic competitive advantages.
   4. Gain the ability to handle shape transformation and complex fabrication steps which are just two of the advanced abilities in SEMS that make production effective.
3. Purchasing
   1. Buy what you really require, no more, no less. Understand the very dynamic relationship connecting what you buy and what you sell in determining purchasing needs.
   2. Know what inventory you can handle by including production capacity availability in the purchasing decision.
   3. Make appropriate and accurate purchasing decisions based on Inventory demand planning
   4. Gain an inherent business advantage from purchasing inventory that matches your process requirements, like delivery direct to outside processors or staged delivery.
4. Comprehensive ERP modules
   1. Claims
   2. Costing
   3. EDI
   4. Fabrication
   5. Inventory
   6. Production
   7. Purchasing
   8. Quality
   9. Receiving
   10. Management Reporting
   11. Sales Order
   12. Shipping
   13. Warehouse operations
   14. Business process definition
   15. Setup
5. Accounting

1. 1. Integrate with Oracle EBS or AccPac (or your current accounting system)
2. Oracle
   1. Go with the leading product. Oracle is the number 1 Relational database with 48.6% share (Gartner 2007)
   2. Be secure in your technology Investment. As Oracle business partners, Steelman has 100% support for all customers in all aspects of business systems deployment and operations.
   3. See www.oracle.com
3. Logistics
   1. Increase load efficiency and reduce shipping costs by pre-planning loads, optimizing delivery routes and managing dispatch scheduling.
   2. Remove a bottleneck by automatically scheduling packaging as a work center operation.
   3. Reduce processing delay by automatically adding transfers to the routing for operations in different locations
   4. Gain greater inventory control by using metals industry specific receiving procedures including receiving in transit.
   5. Reduce the overhead of paperwork by capturing all shipping documents and associating them with the Bill of Lading
   6. Increase efficiency and track inventory in real time through RF bar code scanning support for receiving, inventory movement, inventory reconciliation and shipping.
4. Adaptability to your business
   1. Customization to fit your business without changing standard core code to keep your version of SEMS standard and upgradeable.
   2. Build in your business control by making SEMS work the way you work, by using extensive set-up and business process options for almost every aspect of your business
   3. Expand international operations through support for Mexican operations and local Government regulations and requirements

STEELMAN SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

STEELMAN Software Solutions Inc. (SSSI) a privately held company of Toronto, Ontario creator of the Steel Service Center Software. Our 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 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.

INDUSTRY SPECIFIC

STEELMAN’s enterprise software solutions are based upon proven ERP software designs in the metals and steel mill and steel service center processing industries world wide. Our STEELMAN SEMS® system is designed ONLY for the STEEL/METALS MES/ERP business sector. Our customers are world leaders in the STEEL industry and we have proven expertise in all areas of this business sector. Our strength is specific knowledge of the steel industry, designs that are customizable and configurable to this sector only, and using the latest technologies to deliver short and long term solutions to each and every customer. STEELMAN SEMS® software has passed Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance (SOX) audits.

ORACLE STANDARDS

As an ORACLE CERTIFIED PARTNER, STEELMAN has the BEST COMMERCIAL METALS PROCESSOR and SERVICE CENTER PROCESSING Solution in the MES/ERP market today. Steelman 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!

DEDICATED SUPPORT

The STEELMAN team works with your team’s plans, goals, and objectives, from start to finish. We provide additional value added services and support as requested. Our solution, STEELMAN’s STEEL ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM® (SEMS®), is a fully integrated, Oracle-based application designed exclusively for the metal mills and processing and service center distribution industry.  The SEMS® platform delivers an open, modular, user-friendly environment, based on industry leading technology, to meet the specific requirements set by you.

Steelman Software Solutions Inc.

Leading Steel Processor gains new competitive capabilities from sems software

toronto, ontario, canada 13 dec 2008:

On December 1st. 2008 Pacesetter Steel Service, Inc (http://www.teampacesetter.com/) implemented SEMS ERP software simultaneously in four locations. The culmination of a five-year process of evaluation and upgrading internal processes, the implementation of the SEMS system is providing immediate benefits, competitive advantages and flexibilities over the systems SEMS has replaced. Pacesetter Steel Service, Inc., founded in 1977 by its current President and CEO Steve Leebow, is the country’s leader in coated steel product distribution. STEELMAN Software Solutions Inc. (SSSI) a privately held company based in Toronto, Ontario is the vendor and development/support team for SEMS - SSSI’s Steel Enterprise Management Systems®.

Brian Goldstein, the senior business analyst who has headed the implementation project for Pacesetter says: “SEMS provides us with a highly effective steel-processing specific ERP capability. We see major steps forward in our capability to compete in tough times.”

Pacesetter has one of the most extensive prime flat rolled steel inventories available from any domestic service center. Pacesetter’s world headquarters is located in Kennesaw, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Additional modern service center facilities are located in Atlanta, Chicago and Houston.

SSSI has been building leading technology solutions for the steel industry since 1994. SEMS is a comprehensive business software product which is used to manage the order process, purchasing, planning, making, shaping and shipping of steel products and all associated accounting and process controls.

About STEELMAN

Steelman Software Solutions Inc., a privately held company, is one of the world’s leading metals information management software companies. Originally developed in 1994 by experienced steel and systems professionals, STEELMAN Software Solutions Inc. is a Toronto-based software manufacturer specializing in the development and installation of enterprise-wide software solutions exclusively for suppliers and processors of steel and other metal products. Its strength comes from a proven understanding of the steel business gained from extensive steel industry consulting history, successful system implementations, key industry partnerships, and hands on management and sales experience.

Imbedded with the Oracle 10g infrastructure software, STEELMAN’s Steel Enterprise Management Systems allows Metal companies to leverage their technology to increase profitability, stay ahead of the competition, and better understand their customers and marketplace. STEELMAN is an active member of the Certified Oracle Partner, and Intermec Honors Partner program. Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, STEELMAN has offices in United States and Slovakia and can be found on the Internet at www.esteelman.com.

For further information contact:

Steelman Software Solutions Inc.
4850 Keele Street, First Floor
Toronto, Ontario, M3J 3K1
Contact:  Daniel Brody
Phone:  416-495-6939 x222
Email:  DanielB@esteelman.com

SEMS, STEELMAN, Steel Enterprise Management Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks of Steelman Software Solutions Inc. in the Canada/U.S. and/or other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. All other trademarks or registered trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners.

Software solutions prove efficient

By ADRIANNE HARTLEY, SUN MEDIA

Many industries face logistical challenges, but with the help of supply-chain orientedsoftware, challenges are being met head on. Richer Systems Group Inc. offers one suchsoftware solution, Enrich, which is used throughout North America by companies in thecommercial transportation field.It features online, real-time data processing to give clients up-to-the-minute information fromany area of their operation, regardless of size and number of facilities — from front-office operations to maintenance and materials to lease and rental information.”Information is playing a more important role than it ever has before in the success of ourcustomers in this industry,” says Tim Bowes, vice-president of sales and services withRicher Systems Group Inc.”The need to provide more information increases in order to make the supply chain moreefficient.”Bowes says a specific solution is vital for most companies, because there is morecompetition in the marketplace.Also, as companies outsource to other companies, the need for information and progressreports on operations must easily be generated beyond just invoicing.”A consolidated system provides accurate and timely data back to customers,” he says.Enrich consolidates transactions so that companies can provide key performance indicators to their customers.”The supply of information is becoming critical in this age, and the ability to collect it and make sure it’s accurate and then deliver it in a timely fashion is what Enrich does,” saysBowes.In the steel industry, Steelman Software Solutions Inc.’s Steel Enterprise ManagementSystem Version 4 creates a collaborative environment for customers, suppliers andprocessors of steel and other metal products.In the past, the metals industry kept track of inventory with a series of cumbersomedatabases.Steelman’s system makes sense of all the confusion by delivering end-to-end solutionsbased on industry best practices as well as their customers’ unique operating practices and processes.”This is very current and specific enterprise resource planning technology designed to suitthe steel marketplace,” says Daniel Brody, managing director of Steelman.