Three places steel contractors lose money
- 01Heard on site
“Mill prices keep moving, and getting three suppliers to quote eats a whole morning.”
Compare per tonne, section by section, and award each to the cheapest
Send one request to several steel suppliers and their per-tonne prices line up side by side. The cheapest on each section is marked, so you can split the award and turn it straight into POs.
Saves money|Splitting by section beats even the cheapest single quote.
- 02Heard on site
“The driver gets the delivery note signed and leaves. Two dented deck sheets, and nobody wrote it down.”
Check every line on site and refuse damage with a photo
The site engineer checks each delivery-note line on the phone. Two deck sheets are dented, so they’re refused with a photo and a reason. Only what was accepted is received, and the refused sheets stay owed on the PO.
Saves money|Refused material is never booked as received, or paid for.
- 03Heard on site
“The mill raised prices again. How much more is this H-beam than last time? The old quote is buried somewhere in LINE.”
Check what you’ve paid before you approve
Every price you’ve paid is kept. Before approving a PO, open the item’s price analysis: past prices, the average and the most recent price are all there, so how much more a new price is becomes plain to see.
Saves money|Negotiate with real numbers, not memory.
Hours and money back, added up over a month
Delivery notes, invoices, quotes and price history live in one place, so matching no longer runs on spreadsheets and LINE. Here is a sample month.
Structural Steel
Questions
We run on spreadsheets and LINE. Do we have to switch everything at once?
No. Start with one project and one PO. Uploading photos of delivery notes already works, and everything else can stay as it is.
Suppliers send invoices as PDFs or photos. Can the system read them?
Yes. AI reads the items, tonnes and unit prices, then matches them line by line against the PO and the receiving records. An invoice that doesn’t match is held as a whole for a person to review before payment.
Our fabrication shop and the site keep separate stock. Can we track them apart?
Yes. Give the shop and each site their own stock location, and every transfer, issue and return is recorded, so offcuts and surplus don’t simply vanish.
