Metals ERP solution

Achieve sustainable growth with a tailored Microsoft™ technology solution

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Metals systems shouldn’t be complex and inefficient

Are these problems slowing your metals company down?

Manual processes

Disparate systems

Infrequent demand forecasting

Poor visibility

You need a better way to grow your business, and that starts with a metals-specific technology solution.

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Crowe Metals Accelerator, built on the Microsoft Dynamics 365™ platform, is designed to meet the unique needs of metals companies.

Prepare your metals business for future growth

Standardize more efficient business processes and increase productivity across multiple metal product types, metal manufacturing processes, and different end customer needs.

Make smarter decisions faster

Get accurate data and real-time analytics from your metals enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Use these analytics to maximize margins, minimize machine downtime, and increase customer satisfaction.

Enable faster innovation with continual updates

Gain access to the latest innovations from both Microsoft and Crowe rolled out in automatic updates.

Gain a competitive advantage

Take advantage of built-in Microsoft Azure™ artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast customer demand and avoid costly machine downtime.

Crowe Metals Accelerator offers an ERP solution specifically designed for the metals industry.

Wire and cable

Manage your manufacturing processes for better cost tracking and product performance analysis.

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Pipe and tube

Provide end-to-end visibility to inventory dimensions such as OD/ID, pipe schedule, tube gauge shape, and length to allow for faster order fulfillment.

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Building products

From coil, sheet, plate, and long product processing to complex fabrication and assembly, easily manage the unique combination of process and discrete manufacturing in a single, end-to-end ERP solution.

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Wire and cable

Manage your manufacturing processes for better cost tracking and product performance analysis.

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Pipe and tube

Provide end-to-end visibility to inventory dimensions such as OD/ID, pipe schedule, tube gauge shape, and length to allow for faster order fulfillment.

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Building products

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Service centers

Get the tool set to help improve customer service, increase inventory visibility, and more effectively plan operations.

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Producers

Optimize material planning, integrate production control, and improve quality management.

Toll processors

Communicate in real time to manage inventory, production specifications, quality, shipping, and receiving.

Service centers

Get the tool set to help improve customer service, increase inventory visibility, and more effectively plan operations.

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Producers

Optimize material planning, integrate production control, and improve quality management.

Toll processors

Communicate in real time to manage inventory, production specifications, quality, shipping, and receiving.

Find out more about Crowe Metals Accelerator

Our metals ERP is designed to meet the unique needs of the metals industry.

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An ERP solution built on the Microsoft platform and tailored by metals specialists

E-commerce

Inventory management

Nesting solution

E-commerce

Built on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform, Crowe Metals Accelerator for E-commerce is a pre-built template that enables metals companies of all sizes to easily create and manage a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce website for their customers to find, research and order metal products.

Inventory management

Optimize inventory across multiple locations no matter the form, including coil, bar, plate, pipe, tube, billet, ingot, wire, cable, and fabricated parts.

Nesting solution

Provide competitive quotes, deliver them quickly, and achieve potential savings on material costs with both linear and plate nesting integrated into quoting and planning.

Specification management

Customer-defined order specifications are linked directly to manufacturing processes.

Inventory by dimension and attribute

Characteristics such as grade, thickness, and diameter are tracked, viewed, and shared seamlessly across all shapes, including coil, sheet, plate, bar, pipe, tube, wire, slab, and billet.

Quality management

Integrated quality checks – from purchased material receipt through production reporting – provide visibility for quality control.

Flexible unit conversions

Flexible conversions allow items to be purchased, stocked, sold, produced, and priced in different units of measurement.

Specification management

Customer-defined order specifications are linked directly to manufacturing processes.

Inventory by dimension and attribute

Characteristics such as grade, thickness, and diameter are tracked, viewed, and shared seamlessly across all shapes, including coil, sheet, plate, bar, pipe, tube, wire, slab, and billet.

Quality management

Integrated quality checks – from purchased material receipt through production reporting – provide visibility for quality control.

Flexible unit conversions

Flexible conversions allow items to be purchased, stocked, sold, produced, and priced in different units of measurement.

Scrap and remnant material management

Inventory is optimized through cut- and slit-planning and melt makeup workbenches, including a prebuilt integration with SigmaNEST^® software.

Parent-child material traceability

Heat traceability is maintained throughout the supply chain, including inventory and production processing.

Actual and theoretical weight tracking

Weight variances and random lengths are handled with ease.

Optimized order entry

Inventory can be searched by attribute, and promise dates can be calculated and based on material availability and processing times to help deliver faster customer service.

Scrap and remnant material management

Inventory is optimized through cut- and slit-planning and melt makeup workbenches, including a prebuilt integration with SigmaNEST^® software.

Parent-child material traceability

Heat traceability is maintained throughout the supply chain, including inventory and production processing.

Actual and theoretical weight tracking

Weight variances and random lengths are handled with ease.

Optimized order entry

Inventory can be searched by attribute, and promise dates can be calculated and based on material availability and processing times to help deliver faster customer service.

Pricing built for metals

Flexible price models allow pricing by attribute or weight brackets, cost-plus pricing, and commodity price management.

Mill test reports and product certifications

Mill test reports can be automatically imported from vendors to generate product certifications for customers.

Pricing built for metals

Flexible price models allow pricing by attribute or weight brackets, cost-plus pricing, and commodity price management.

Mill test reports and product certifications

Mill test reports can be automatically imported from vendors to generate product certifications for customers.

Meet the Crowe team

Andrew O. Callaghan

Managing Principal, Metals

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Tony Barnes

Principal, Microsoft Cloud Solutions Leader

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