Steel stockholding software, without the paper chase.
MetlSys is the ERP for steel and stainless stockholders, and for the engineering firms they supply. Goods-in, heat and certificate traceability, cutting, despatch, proof of delivery and invoicing in one live system. AI reads the paperwork so your office doesn’t retype it.
EN 10204 · 2.1 to 3.2HEAT & CAST GENEALOGYDATABASE IN LONDON
Everything the office and the warehouse run on.
No re-keying between systems: purchasing, stock, production, despatch and finance all work from the same batch of steel.
Sales orders
Quote to order with credit, stock and certificate gates before anything leaves the warehouse.
Goods receipt & weighing
Book in from the delivery note; confirm actual weight later. Unweighed stock can't be sold.
Stock & warehousing
Every physical lot is a batch: heat, cert, weight, cost and bin location.
EN 10204 traceability
Mill certificates matched to batches by heat number. Types 2.1 to 3.2, ranked.
Subcontract processing
Send material out for machining or testing. It returns costed, certified and traceable.
Customer portal
Customers fetch their own delivery notes, cert packs, invoices and statements.
AI assistant
Ask your live data a question. Get an answer, a table or a chart. Read-only by design.
Accounts export
CSV out to Xero, Sage 50/200 and QuickBooks Online. Posting runs and part-payments.
Reporting
Margins, stock age, OTIF, aged debt. Live screens, not month-end spreadsheets.
Cut-piece pricing
Chargeable length with kerf and facing allowance, priced by saw type.
Generic ERPs don't know what a heat number is.
MetlSys was modelled on the steel trade, not adapted to it afterwards. The things generic inventory software can't do are the point.
Catch-weight, dual units
Theoretical and actual weight on every batch. Price per kg, metre or each. Invoice on either weight basis, with variance over 2% flagged for review.
2,140 kg THEO · 2,118 kg ACTUAL
VARIANCE −1.0% · WITHIN BAND
Heat & cast genealogy
Split it, cut it, send it out for machining. Every child batch keeps the parent’s heat, certificate and cost history. Remnants stay sellable and traceable.
HEAT 24F881 → SPLIT → WO-1042
→ REMNANT R-88 → DN-2210 ✓
Certificates as records
MTCs live against the batch, ranked EN 10204 2.1 to 3.2, with chemistry and mechanicals extracted. No valid certificate, no despatch paperwork.
MTC 3.1 · C 0.021 · Cr 18.10 · Ni 8.06
MATCHED TO BATCH BY HEAT ✓
Start light. Grow into the whole operation.
Every tier is the same system. Your tier only decides how much of it is switched on.
Lite
The essentials: stock and traceability, purchasing, and sales through to despatch. For smaller operators getting off spreadsheets.
£395 / MONTH · EXCL VAT
Professional
The full operation: invoicing and aged debt, production, the shop-floor app, cut pricing and the AI assistant.
£995 / MONTH · EXCL VAT
Corporate
Everything in Professional plus multi-currency, credit control, accounting export, the customer portal, fleet and API access.
CONTACT FOR PRICING
Switching from a legacy system? Your history comes with you: customers, stock, certificates, order history.
Migration & custom workGives the office its Friday back.
Every feature is measured the same way: what it does, and what it stops you having to do.
AI reads the paperwork
Nobody retypes delivery notes, mill certs or customer POs. The system proposes; your team reviews and confirms.
TYPED ONCE, IF AT ALL
Certificates filed by heat
Audit requests answered in minutes. Not an afternoon in the filing cabinet at 4:45 on a Friday.
FOUND IN SECONDS, FILED BY HEAT
Despatch, ePOD and invoice in one thread
The invoice can go out the moment a clean proof of delivery comes back. Same day, not month end.
INVOICE THE SAME DAY AS THE POD
Customers serve themselves
Delivery notes, cert packs and statements downloaded from the portal. Fewer copy-invoice calls on both sides.
FEWER COPY-INVOICE CALLS, BOTH SIDES
See MetlSys in action.
A 30-minute walkthrough on your own workflow: goods-in, certificates, despatch and invoicing. Talk to the person who built it, not a sales team.