Metal Business Manager(MBM)

We are here to help you with custom business solutions to fit all of you're needs no matter what

Flat Rolled Solutions

MBM provides a comprehensive solution for the Flat Rolled Service Center Industry from Slitting, Cut-to-length, Toll Processing, Production Scheduling & EDI. MBM will automate your business processing with its intelligent modules placing you ahead of your competitors.

Multiline Solutions

Metal Business Manager Plus is a complete software package for Multiline Service Centres which handles every aspect of your metal business by managing Inventory, Sales, Purchasing, Production, Shipping and Invoicing. MBM Plus has built-in EDI functionality.

EDI & Custom Development

MBM has built-in EDI finicality, EDI can speed up your business cycles by 61% and improves data quality, delivering at least a
30—40% reduction in transactions with eliminating errors from illegible handwriting, lost faxes/mail and keying and re-keying errors.

Services

We are here to help you with custom business solutions to fit all of you're needs no matter what

Inventory Management

  • Manage Resale and Toll/COM Inventory
  • Search Inventory quickly and easily by Product, Gauge, Location, Heat Number, Status, Tag and Owner
  • Extensive Traceability and History
  • Tag Based Inventory
  • Print/scan Different Barcode Tags for Resale and Toll material
  • Both imperial and metric measurements for Gauge, width, length, Weight, ID, OD, PIW/KMW, PSI
  • Increase accuracy and process efficiencies while minimizing manual data entry by:
    • Creating inventory items from PO's;
    • Creating inventory items from EDI ASN’s;
    • Replicating inventory items;
    • Transferring inventory ownership
  • Reserve, Designate Inventory for future sale
  • E-mail, Fax and Print Directly

Customer Manager

  • Create and maintain Customer/Prospect profiles
  • Manages multiple ship-to addresses
  • Increase user efficiency: Reduce data entry time and errors by using customer and ship-to default requirements in the Sales Orders, Shipping Tags, Packing Slips and Invoices
  • Maintains confidential customer information
  • Setup EDI Requirements
  • Customer Financial History
  • Manages financial information by:
    • Currency
    • Credit Limit
    • Terms
    • Banking Information
    • Taxes

Sales Order

  • Create Sales Quotes and Orders for Resale and Toll Processing/COM Material
  • Duplication Orders or only order items from previous Orders
  • Track and maintain historical data of all Orders and Quotes
  • Create bar-coded Shipping Tags directly from Orders.
  • Select inventory Item(s), which you want to use for material production and assign to the orders
  • Search Orders by Part Number, PO, Gauge, Product, Grade, Width, Length, Weight, and more
  • Enhance order accuracy using customer/ship-to defaults e.g. Max Lift, Fork Lift, Max Weight Eye vertical/horizontal
  • Track orders by status (Quote, Order, On-hold, Production, Complete, Cancelled)
  • Print processing order for Plant/Shop operators for material production with out price information
  • Convert Quote to Order with just a click
  • Allow managing all kind of gauges MAX/MIN/NOM with +/_ tolerances
  • Credit Warning
  • E-mail, EDI and Print Directly

Purchasing/Recieving

  • Standard and Blanket Purchase Orders
  • Create PO template and replicate PO and/or PO items
  • Buyout Purchase Orders, Order all kind of material in one PO
  • Track Purchase Orders through different statuses (Entered, Printed, Received, Complete and Canceled)
  • Keep track of PO revisions
  • Search PO's with fast and power full search engine
  • Track Material on order and/or on hand
  • Imperial & Metric measurements
  • Warehouse/Office Model for Receiving
  • Receive material from PO's and print Bar-coded inventory tags
  • Receive Material from EDI advanced shipping notice and send EDI acknowledgements automatically
  • Print different copies of PO for Office, File and Vendor

Sales Analysis

  • Sales by Customer, Country, Location, Gauge, Product, Grade, Width, Length, Weight, and more
  • Sales Productivity and Profitability
  • Quotes to Order Analysis
  • Generate Executive Sales Summaries by:
    • $ Value
    • Weight
    • GL account

Profit Margin Analysis

  • Profit Margin by Customer, Country, Location, Gauge, Product, Grade, Width, Length, Weight, and more
  • Profit Margin by Inventory item/Coils
  • Profit Margin by Sales Rep

Production

  • Create Production Runs from sales orders with just one click
  • Multiple Sales Orders on a single Job
  • Extensive Traceability
  • Work Center/Machine Scheduling
  • Send EDI's for Production Status
  • Track Production Runs via different statuses (Entered, Pending, Scheduled, InProcess, Complete)
  • Real-time Recording in Plant
  • Scale Interface
  • Work-in-Process Tracking
  • Bar-coded Labels for Scanning and Identification
  • Full Arbor Layout with knife positions and OD breaks
  • Layout Instructions (run full, run partial, OD splits/breaks, edge trim)
  • Slit and Re-slit Functions
  • Slit to PIW/KMW
  • Return-to-stock Dimension and Quantity
  • Dispose coils
  • Create child Inventory items from restock
  • E-mail, EDI and Print Directly

Packaging & Shipping

  • Shipping/Lift Tags
    • Create shipping tags by scanning Mult tags
    • Search Shipping tag with power full search engine.
    • Track Shipping tags by status (Shipped, On-Hold, Storage)
    • Print, Email bar-coded lift tags
  • Packaging
    • Create packing slips automatically by just scanning or entering shipping/lift tags
    • Search packing slips with power full search engine
    • Track Packing slips/BOL by status (Ready, On-Hold, Loaded/on-route, Delivered)
    • Print, Email, Fax Shipping Documents (Manifest, Packing Slip, Bill of Lading) :
    • Print-Email-Fax automatic Test Certs (Original Mill/In-house)
    • Shipments Scheduling

Financial Management

  • Invoicing
  • Create Invoices from packing slips, BOL and sales orders with just one click
  • Search Invoices with power full search engine
  • Customer-based Taxes and currencies
  • Credit Management
  • Excellent audit trails
  • Full G/L Integration
  • Financial Reporting
  • Third Party Financial Product Integration (optional)

EDI

  • MBM has built-in EDI Module
  • EDI can speed up your business cycles by 61%
  • Improves data quality, delivering at least a 30—40% reduction in transactions with errors
  • Using EDI can reduce the order-to-cash cycle time by more than 20%, improving business partner transactions and relationships
  • Errors from illegible handwriting, lost faxes/email or incorrectly taken phone orders are eliminated
  • Expenses associated with paper, printing, reproduction, storage, filing, postage and document retrieval are all reduced or eliminated when you switch to EDI transactions, lowering your transaction costs by at least 35%

Reports, Barcodes and Certs

  • Financial
  • Sales
  • Inventory
  • Purchasing
  • Processing
  • Order Log
  • Shipping
  • Test Certs
  • Claims

Security

  • Metal Business Manager has Robust Group/User, Module, Menu, Data/Field security
  • Group/User (any data entered/modified is traceable)
  • Modules (create, edit, view) by group/user
  • Data/Field (traceability for data modification)