Invera, a provider of Metal Enterprise Software solutions, has
deployed its cloud-based metal software INVEX, at American Heavy
Plates, a steel plate rolling mill and plate processor situated in
Hannibal, Ohio.
HANNIBAL, Ohio, July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- American
Heavy Plates, a steel plate rolling mill and plate processor
located in Hannibal, Ohio, has
implemented the cloud-based INVEX metal service center software
from Invera, the metal enterprise software solution provider.
"We were pleased that we could implement
the INVEX ERP with no modifications which helped reduce the risk
and length of time to implement this metal industry enterprise
software." –Damian Brennan, Vice President and Co-Founder
The INVEX metal software provides a comprehensive set of
metal-specific features with a state-of-the-art cloud-based
technology stack and an intuitive native web user interface.
Software Implementation
INVEX was able to meet all their metal specific business cases
out of the box, allowing for a faster implementation. The
implementation at AH Plates was performed with no INVEX software
modifications required.
AH Plates implemented a full complement of INVEX features
including inventory management, purchasing, sales, online
production planning, plate cutting processing functions, shop-floor
production recording, warehouse tablet functions, job scheduling,
and online shipment planning. Using the personalization features
available in INVEX, AH Plate also customized multiple business
documents.
AH Plate Slab and Ingot Rolling Process
AH Plates produces their steel plate from steel slabs or ingots
using a rolling process. These steel slabs can be from 9"-12" thick
or steel ingots up to 24" thick. Once the plate has been produced
at their facilities, AH Plates can perform a number of value-add
processes such as testing, heat treating, machining, as well as oxy
plate cutting and beveling.
Sales
From the INVEX Sales module, AH Plates benefits from the Order
Status Desktop, which shows a comprehensive status of the customer
order at a single glance. Since the plate rolling, heat treating,
lab testing, and plate cutting processing steps are being recorded
in the warehouse, the Sales Department can see the item's status as
it goes through each process — whether scheduled, in process or
complete — all from desktop or mobile devices.
"Our business is unique from a typical plate service center
since we produce our steel plate from slabs using a rolling
process. We were pleased that we could implement the INVEX ERP with
no modifications which helped reduce the risk and length of time to
implement this metal industry enterprise software."
–Damian Brennan, Vice President and Co-Founder
Production
For Production, INVEX enables AH Plates to reduce paper
consumption through the use of INVEX on-line Production Planning.
From the production planning screen, multiple order items can be
highlighted and grouped together to create a single plate cutting
job which is used to process the plate to a variety of shapes for
the customer. Benefits included better material utilization, which
increased profitability.
AH Plates also utilized INVEX multi-step processing features to
track each step of the process at their facilities using the
multi-plant process routing features. As the slabs are consumed,
plates are produced and continue with their processing steps, value
can be attributed to each step, which leads to the accurate
tracking of net profitability for each order.
Plate Nesting
Using the API's provided in INVEX, AH Plate integrated INVEX
with the plate nesting software, SigmaNEST. The INVEX Certified
Partner, iTECH GO provided the packaged integration with SigmaNEST.
This eliminates the need to manually load inventory and new orders
into SigmaNEST. In addition, once the nesting process is complete,
the integration returns the resulting production job and inventory
allocation, from SigmaNEST to INVEX.
About AH Plates
American Heavy Plates began production in 2020 in Hannibal, Ohio. They focus on just-in-time
production of steel plates and parts. By keeping its inventory in
semi-finished form, AH Plates can supply customer demand for any
quantity of a particular grade and size so there are virtually no
stockouts of any product.
Customers can buy several railcars at a time or a single pallet.
This level of customer focus allows customers to avoid
inventory-carrying risk, while guaranteeing their ability to source
hard-to-find products on a just-in-time basis. With over 300,000
square feet of warehouse and production space in Hannibal, Ohio, AH Plates is centrally located
and services customers throughout North
America.
About Invera
Invera has been providing metal enterprise and metal-specific
e-commerce solutions to the metal service center and processing
industries since 1977. The metal software solution INVEX is fast
and intuitive and can be implemented quickly requiring minimal, if
any, software modifications.
INVEX is used by metal service centers, metal stockholders,
plate processors, metal distributors, metal processors, steel toll
processors, and steel tube mills that produce tubes from slit
coils. Invera's commitment to the metals industry is endorsed by
over 700 sites in North America,
Europe and the Middle East at single-site and multi-site
companies.
For more information, contact Invera at (514)-925-8558 or visit
https://www.invera.com.
Media Contact
Ray Vasson, Invera, 1
514-925-8555, rayv@invera.com, https://invera.com/
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