M-Soft-Steel
| Modular software for your steel trade and/or service centre M-Soft-Steel (M-S-S) is the modern ERP solution specifically designed for the steel business, including ferrous, non-ferrous and iron goods, with the associated range of services. This user-friendly software is the result of more than 15 years of experience in, and knowledge of, the steel sector. M-S-S offers functionalities that have been created with the steel industry in mind, rather than try to adapt a "general" ERP solution, and this should allow to stand out amongst our competitors. M-Soft-Steel can work with our additional modules (e.g. M-Soft-Account) as well as being integrated with existing "general" ERP solutions (e.g. SAP, Oracle, ...). | |
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Key features:
- Full Business Automation: Highly automated business flow, with single data input used across the board along the entire business process: quotes, orders, price enquiries, sales, purchases (both form external suppliers and inter-company), treatments (internal and external), invoices, warehouse notes, delivery notes, etc. all derive from the same initial data input, avoiding unnecessary duplications; the presence of many modern features (e.g. radio frequency allowing you to simplify the storage, logistic, and transformation processes) ensure maximum efficiency in the business flow.
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- Best Item management and parameterisation: Highly customizable item management system, catering for the various item types (e.g. beams, plates, coils, small items, off cuts, scraps, etc.) as well as their unique features (length, width, thickness, quality, etc.) and the relevant treatments (e.g. cutting, painting, drilling, decoiling, slitting, etc); Thorough parameterisation process, carried out by our consultants in co-operation with your users, aimed at capturing the unique features of the steel sector as well as adapting our software module(s) to your business structure and flow, rather than the other way around. This means, amongst other things, that only the features and components relevant to your company are active in the system, increasing efficiency and cost-effectiveness, as well as reducing potential mistakes.
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- Multi-language and Multi-Company enabled: Highly flexible ERP solution, catering for multi-offices, multi-country, multi-language (English, German, French, Dutch and Italian) business structures, allowing to eliminate administrative duplications and overlappings between different locations.
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- Treatments and Production features are "in the core": multiple treatments, internal or external (e.g. cutting, decoiling, slitting) are all envisaged and easily manageable as they are written in the "core" of our software. Full integration between M-Soft-Steel and M-Soft-Production allows to handle also more complex production processes, if/when needed.
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- The power of 10 "Steel Experts": we have 10 dedicated professionals (developer-consultants) with about 100 years of cumulative experience and focused on the unique and evolving needs of the steel and metal industry. Their main goal is to make sure that our clients have the best solution for their business, with no or very little need for custom-made development and of course, the best implementation. When customisation is indeed necessary, they will deploy it for you themselves.Our "Steel Experts" work together with another 20 professionals resposible for supporting and implementing the rest of our solution (M-Soft-Production, M-Soft-Account, M-Soft-Time, R&D etc).
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An IT project cannot succeed without the support from the outset of specialists who understand your sector. M-S-S will be implemented by senior M-Soft consultants, with more than 15 years of experience in the steel / metal sector. They are always ready to help you make the most out of M-Soft-Steel, either by accurately parameterising the "standard" version or by customising the actual software, if required.
Below you find some of the software modules that make up M-Soft-Steel and that can grow together with your company's needs:
Main modules
M-Soft-Steel includes the following main modules
- parameter programs
- item management
- stock management
- purchase and sales pricing system
- purchase management
- sales management
- checking and cutting (length and length, width)
- production follow-up (pre- and post-calculation)
- transport
- reports and statistics
- CRM, document centre, certificate follow-up, print management, ...
Parameter programs
General level
- languages (The programs (user interface) are available in Dutch, French, German and English)
- texts (Text can be added to each document or pre-set for several different documents)
- company parameters (Here you can define whether delivery notes on invoices should be grouped (also by client), whether the standard delivery address is included according to the last used/the most frequent/..., what the sales journal code is, what the standard delivery date is, ... )
- cash discounts
- expiration terms
- credit rating codes for the clients
Commercial parameters
- calculations (Calculations can be used in a sales order. They include costs such as inspection costs, insurance, ...)
- treatments (Blasting, painting, sawing, cutting, ...)
- types of clients (in order to set up statistics)
- codes for missed quotes
Logistics parameters
- warehouses
- warehouse locations
- bundles, packages
- sawing machines
- cutting tolerances
- cutting patterns
Item management
For steel items, it is very important that you can create a correct and simple item key. Moreover this key structure should not be fixed for ever. It is changeable and extendable if necessary. This is why you can decide for yourself which characteristics are useful in an item key.
- price-, purchase-, sales-, bookkeeping-, stock- and 2 consultation- units
- it is possible to work both in imperial and metric measurements
- you define the structure of the item keys by using the item characteristics
- formulas: you define the conversion to unit, kilo, metre, boxes, packs, ...
- matchcodes: you can use an alternate key for an item
- automatic creation: you can define if new items (lengths, widths, qualities, ...) should be
- work with or without warehouse locations
- item descriptions are created automatically in different languages
- goods codes (intrastat)
- surface, volume
- standard warehouse location, standard preparation zone
- definition of different weights such as factory weight, theoretic weight, country weight ...
- decide if these are standard items.
- decide whether the item can still be purchased, sold, sold while stocks last
- check formulae (conversion Unit, Kilo, Boxes, Packs, ...)
- define minimum/maximum stock
- ...
Stock management
- order from supplier and last prices
- received items
- reservations sales orders and latest prices
- physical stock, real available stock, theoretic available stock, warehouse stocks, ...
- semi direct sales orders (from supplier to your stock and via your stock to client)
- direct sales orders (sales with delivery from supplier to client)
Purchase and sales pricing system
Prices can be reviewed via different programs (quotes, orders, stock management, purchases, ....) within M-Soft-Steel. The pricing system covers items as well as treatments.
Within Sales, it is possible to include prices per item, per client and per client item (contracts).
Purchase management
- order proposal
- purchase requirements
- suppliers price inquiry
- specification of suppliers prices within price requests
- price comparison (of a price inquiry)
- price inquiries / assign price inquiry to order
- suppliers orders
- receipt
- linked certificates (to items that come in)
- reports and documents:
- print price request, price comparison, order form, receipt, delivery report
- list of open orders, turnover per supplier reports
Sales management
It is possible to use M-Soft-Steel for different offices, working together on one central computer via parameter settings.
Sales management comprises the following main modules:
- clients dashboard and CRM management
- quote management
- order management
- checking out
- cutting
- cutting in length
- cutting in length and width
- de-coiling and slitting (processing)
- debtor tracking
- on-line credit control at various moments and on several credit lines
- invoicing
- printing different documents
- checking documents, stock orders, direct order, manual invoicing
- order registration/confirmation
- planning note
- document external treatment
- delivery note client order
- warehouse note
- internal treatment note
- over-the-counter sales and cash management
Transport
- transport companies
- trailers, trucks, drivers
- transport planning
- shipping
Reporting and statistics
Different reports, statistics and listings come as standard with M-Soft-Steel. Both directly in M-Soft-Steel, through transfer to Excel (immediately from a program or via ODBC) and via existing schedules in Excel.
- scrap tracking (also accountancy)
- monitoring of stock movements (also accountancy)
- receipts and accountancy link