About SHM

The SHM folder contains all of the forms that have been documented through the SEMS HELP MAP process, and exported to the Help system. See SEMS HELP MAP for the technical description of SHM creation.

SHM details every field, block and form used in SEMS. It is an essential link required to provide context-sensitive help at the field level. (If there is no SHM entry, the link does not work).

Describing the content requirement for each field is useful, but is not as valuable in understanding the way to use the form as the About and Example entries.

SHM is designed to be updated as forms are amended through change management. When that happens, the amended form can be exported from the SHM Oracle table using XML and imported to the SEMS Help, completely replacing the definition of the form. This is performed by the SEMS Help Maintenance Manager at Steelman.

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.

CASE STUDY

By Sherri Telenko - Manfuacturing Automation

October 2004

Parkdale International Limited is part of a volatile industry. Recently, the Hamilton Ont.-based company went from a system that saw shop-floor employees using pen and paper to a fully automated data-and-inventory management software package integrated throughout the entire throughout the entire operation. The upgrading team worked with Toronto-based STEELMAN Software Solutions Inc.

Parkdale’s business is steel, an industry experiencing unprecedented global fluctuations. The company specializes in buying and selling devalued carbon steel products, primarily flat rolled. Extensive evaluation of every shipment is necessary, and often the product is slit or sliced into sheets. But this process isn’t simple.

“We may get a coil that’s 10,000 pounds and a customer wants sheets out of it,” says Stephen Margles, sales manager. Parkdale. “As we are running it out, part way through, we get some bad steel. Our machines are set up to separate the good from the bad and we steel the piles to different customers.” Previously this change was noted on a piece of paper and forwarded to accounitng. The company need a reliable system that would note the input item and divide the cost appropriately between each bundle.

“We put a lot of responsibility on our operations side to do their job properly,” Margles says. “With this software, we’ve given them the tools to do not just the physical labour, but the computer data entry which makes everyone’s job easier.”

Embedded with the Oracle 10g infrastructure software, STEELMAN’s suite of products includes warehouse management, manufacturing control and quality assurance, and it is designed for suppliers and prossors of steel and other metal products. According to Daniel Brody managing director, STEELMAN, “At an integrated mill that does everything, the system will take production from the liquid pot with its chemistry and apply it to the appropriate orders, then move it through the facility based on those orders.”

Other companies sell similar software but Parkdale says it selected STEELMAN because of the service they provide and flexibility of the product, Margles says. “Other companies weren’t as receptive to modifying their systems,” he says.

As with any new automation, the first few months weren’t perfect. The development team need to alter the reports that the system was producing, and servers needed to be coordinated. Margles offers this advice to anyone thinking of implementing a similar process: Don’t start by using parallel systems. “That was a disaster,” he says.

A mid-size company, Parkdale started almost 50 years ago as an extension of a family-run scrap metal business. Today, it is a lean automated operation. In one year, Parkdale went from Flintstone to Jetsons, according to Margles. “We hadn’t been keeping up with technology. Now we have more than we need, but we want to be able to adapt quickly to change.”

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