The reliable spine
The reliable spine is non-AI workflow, arithmetic, integrations, approvals and reporting for Forecasting and planning sanity layer.
Metals, Foundries & Steel
Forecasting and planning sanity layer
Buying and planning run on one person's memory and a stale spreadsheet. The plant over-stocks slow grades, runs short on fast ones, and buys scrap at the wrong moment because nobody can see the rate trend against the order book and the working capital trapped in metal until it hurts. This is the longer-horizon demand, stock and rate view, distinct from the daily anomaly watch.
Who has it
Re-rolling mills for scrap and billet buying against rate, scrap and metal traders for rate-against-buy timing, and foundries and forging and heat-treatment units for the order-book and stock view.
What we build
A read-only layer over the order book, sales history and scrap-rate trend showing demand patterns, forecast-vs-actual gaps, slow-moving grades, stock-out risk on A-class items, the working capital tied in metal, and the rate context for a buying decision. The planner and the buyer still decide; nothing is auto-bought or auto-planned.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
Automation for the routine. A person on every decision that matters.
Where AI helps
AI is limited to bounded reading, extraction, matching, clustering or drafting from the firm's own data for Forecasting and planning sanity layer; it never owns the number, the approval, the promise or the decision.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
Buying and planning start from a shared, current picture; slow grades and stock-out risk become visible early; working capital in metal comes down; the buying call stays human. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative outcome
Buying and planning start from a shared, current picture; slow grades and stock-out risk become visible early; working capital in metal comes down; the buying call stays human. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
How this one gets built.
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
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