ERP Software for the Metals Industry

The demands on IT in the metal industry

Substantial and intense competition in the global world markets, immense cost pressures from steadily rising commodity prices, and increasingly complex customer projects and supply chains – these are the current challenges in the metals industry. Quality, reliability, on-time delivery, and efficiency are becoming increasingly important in order to stay competitive and secure one's market position. The highest demand is for small production runs that meet the same standards for high quality with very short lead times and strict compliance with absolute delivery deadlines. To make this possible, metalworking companies needs logistics systems to provide optimal support to all business processes.

ORDAT provides industry expertise and advanced features

Our customers use FOSS, our flexible ERP system, as a complete solution for all their business tasks. ORDAT's flexible standard software package offers extensive functions which meet the specific requirements of the metals industry.

We know what it takes.

If one wants to be successful for the long haul in the metal industry, one needs to be able to meet the increasing demands of customers. Despite these demanding targets, cost-effective and efficient production are still necessary.
To make this possible, metalworking companies needs logistics systems to provide optimal support to all business processes.

ORDAT's FOSS solution has been used for many years by many metal industry companies around the world. (References in the metal industry). The collective expertise of ORDAT's project specialists flows directly into the ongoing development of FOSS. This has resulted in the standard FOSS package already having a number of functions specific to the metal industry usually only found in industry-specific packages.

The FOSS ERP software package includes the following specific metal industry functions:

• Integrated costing, accounting, controlling
• Tracking of production runs and lots
• Sophisticated QA management
• Joint production and recovery
• Management of formulas, recipes and BOMs
• Integrated lending and container handling
• High-bay warehouse management and control
• Sales

All the standard features and more information about FOSS