Flat-Rolled & Toll

STRATIX offers comprehensive functionality specific to the processing and distribution of flat-rolled (or 'strip') products. At the heart of this functionality is a suite of layout functions designed especially for slitting, cut-to-length, multi-strand blanking, oscillating, and shearing. Each of these layouts include unique functions for the process. These combine with a specialized flat-rolled shop floor production recording system that uses barcode scanning to streamline production recording and increase accuracy.

STRATIX is used by flat-rolled processors that perform a variety of processes specific to the industry, such as:

Customer Specifications
To accommodate those companies that have a high level of repeat orders, a Customer Specification function enables companies to set up global or customer part specific specifications that include ID/OD packaging, gauge, width, length and other tolerances. When associated to a customer part number, the specifications can include the full process route including internal and external production. 

Production Planning
On-Line production planning functions enable planners to view orders that can be combined together in a powerful production planning browse. Once the orders have been identified, planners can proceed with the specific layout requirements with minimal entry.

Production Recording
Based on the production layout, STRATIX actually determines the planned production to eliminate the need for operators to manually create production. Instead, barcoded production labels are produced and affixed to the material so that the barcode can be scanned at the weight stations.

Tag Tracing
Flat-rolled operations typically require that the system maintain a genealogy so that material sold to a customer can be traced back to the material originally purchased from the mill. STRAIX offers comprehensive end to end product tracing.

Material Quality
STRATIX includes numerous features to control and document the material quality.  Users can view on-line the Mill Test Certificates, or scan the inventory for material that meets certain chemical or mechanical property ranges.

Multiple Material Defect Codes by Tag/Bundle can be recorded.  They can be used for reference, searching, and can also be used to automatically place tag on Quarantine, Production, or Shipping Hold to prevent unintentional processing or shipment until condition is released.

Building Panels
STRATIX also includes a suite of features for companies that produce building panels and composite panels.

TOLL Features
The optional STRATIX/TOLL project supplements the STRATIX product with additional functionality for high volume toll processors, that include special billing options to bill at time of production or at time of shipment, and includes automated scrap credit functions.  The following are some additional features:

• Same inventory coding as company-owned inventory
• Inventory automatically segregated from company-owned inventory
• Option to invoice based on consumed or produced weight by process
• Ability to have one charge for all processes or one charge per process
• Option to invoice freight separately
• Storage Charge function
• Customer Inventory Statements
• Toll-specific reporting
• Fax/Email material receipt acknowledgement to customer

STRATIX Features
To see a summary of STRATIX features, click on a business area below! The features in bold are specifically targeted to Flat-rolled service centers.

Inventory Control

• Product Coding based on native attributes familiar within industry
  • No part numbers to look up or memorize
• Handles all Metal Types (carbon steel, aluminum, stainless steel, brass, copper specialty metals, & titanium)
• Handles all Metal Forms (i.e. structural, coils, sheet, plate, pipe, tubing bars, wire mesh, rebar, slabs, billets, blooms, & basic materials)
• Product 'Short-Cut Code'
• Dynamic Dimensions
• Comprehensive Side Cut/Drop/Remnant Functionality
• Material purchased, inventoried, & sold by Pieces, Lineal measure (feet or meters), or Weight
• Material control by Lot/Location, Heat, or Tag
• Specific Costing or Real-time Average Costing
• Cost in various units of measure (piece, lineal measure (feet/meter), weight, etc.)
• Weight Control to decimals of a Pound/Kilogram for high-value products such as Titanium & Nickel Alloy
• Comprehensive Stock Inquiry
  • Special flat-rolled features
    • Whether coil was received at minimum or nominal gauge
    • Square Footage (for pre-painted or galvalume coils)
    • Coil Length & PIW/KCW
    • Ability to record Actual Measurements (Diameter, OD, ID, Wall, Gauge, etc.)
• Extended Finish Code (Paint Color, Stencil, Indented, Polished, Threaded)
• Theoretical or Actual Quantity Control (for each of Pieces, Lineal Measure, & Weight)
• Material designated for specific Customer or Salesperson
• Customer-Owned Inventory (Toll Processing)
•  Vendor Consigned Inventory
• Customer Consigned Inventory
• Shop Floor Wireless Operations for Physical Inventory, Location Change, etc.
• Multiple Material Defect Codes by Tag/Bundle
• Traceability & History

Purchasing

• Standard & Blanket Purchase Orders
• Multi-destination Purchase Order
• Direct Shipments (Vendor to Customer)
• Buyout Purchase Orders for items that are not stocked
• Copy PO Options
• Vendor Price Book
• Imperial and Metric Functions
• On-line Purchase History
• Purchase Analysis by Vendor & Product
• Purchase Material to multiple Metal Standard Specifications (ASTM, ASME, etc.)
• Mill Acknowledgement Function
• PO Change History
• Automated Alloy Surcharge Handling
• Landed Cost Options
• Print/Email/Fax Purchase Order document
• Custom Terms & Conditions on PO document
• Inventory Planning & Forecasting for quick decision making
• On-line Replenishment Position Inquiry
• Highlights items that require immediate replenishment

Receiving

• Warehouse &/or Office Model for Receiving
• Special receiving function for outside processing
• Pre-Receiving – Advanced Shipping Notice
• Customer Returns
• Label Printing 

Material Quality & Certification

• Original Mill Test Certificate Scanning
  • View/print from stock inquiry
• Digital Signature on In-House Test Certificates
• Entry of Chemical & Mechanical Test Results
• Automatic Print of Test Certificate/s at time of Shipping/Delivery
• Scan additional certificates such as Heat Treat or Charpy Tests
• Quality Hold & Controls  

Sales Order Fulfillment

Sales Productivity & Profitability

• Fast Quote Entry with access to real-time customer, inventory, & pricing information
• Simple Quote to Order Conversion
• Quick order to shipment fulfillment options (Same Day/Next Day)
• Lost Quote Analysis
• Blanket & Multi-release Orders
• Stock, Buyout, & Direct Ship Purchases & Sales
• Create Buyout PO directly from Sales Order
• Customer Part Specifications for repeat orders
• Multi-Currency Pricing
• Custom Terms & Conditions for Quote and Sales Acknowledgment documents
• Pre-Painted Flat-rolled Products
  • Sell (or purchase) slit coil based on coil length or area
  • Price slit coil per length or area (galvalume & painted coils)
• Sales can specify exact gauge for coil & sheet orders
  • Examples: 18 Gauge, .0478” Nom, .0440” Min, 12mm, etc.
• Sell material by Pieces, Lineal measure (feet or meters), or Weight 

Pricing

• Flexible Metal Price Book
  • Generic pricing, Customer Pricing and Contract Pricing
  • Easy Replacement Cost Maintenance
  • Commodity Pricing (to allow quantity discount over group of items)
• Special Quoting View
• Processing Price Book - fully integrated with Quote/Order Entry!
• Integrated Freight Tables
• Flexible, specialized Pricing by Pieces, Lineal Measure, Area, Weight, Lot, or Roll 

Order Fulfillment

• Multi-Warehouse Process Route
  • Automatic creation of transfer orders
  • Used to make full use of material/processing options at sister warehouses 
  • Includes outside processing
• Integrated Capacity checking for realistic due date promises
• Specialized Toll Order Entry function
  • Full integration with standard order fulfillment functions

Outside Processing

• Fully integrated with Quote & Sales Order Entry function – seamless!
• Automatic creation of transfer orders for orders that require outside processing
• Automatic creation of Outside Processing Purchase Order
• Can include multiple outside processes
• Test Certificate Scanning
• Automatic Fax/Print of all required Certificates at time of Shipping

Value-Add Processing

• Each value-add service can be built into selling price or charged extra
• Includes outside processing
• Includes freight to & from outside processors and sister warehouses
• Estimated net profit based on value-add costs

Sales Order Status

• Comprehensive On-Line Order Status Inquiry
• Includes internal and external processes
• Started and completed status for each process in the route
• Planned Shipment status or date and time of shipment
• Inter-Warehouse transfer status
• Outside Processing status
• Ready-to-Ship status
• Invoice status

Production 
Production Planning

• On-line Production System for Planning, Scheduling, & Recording
• Eliminates needs for paper copies of orders
• Multiple sales orders can be combined on a single job
• Multi-step Processing

Scheduling

• Capacity Planning
• Cut and Paste on-line schedule
• Re-schedule jobs from one warehouse to another with one click
• Change jobs from internal to external processing
• Warehouse Pick Lineup for on-line operation
• Work Center Scheduling for prioritization

Shop Floor Production Recording  

• Real-time Production Recording in the Warehouse
• Pre-Pick function for production jobs
• Integrated Drop Cost Table (to devalue drops based on % or rate)
• Scale Interface
• Track Work-in-Process
• Value-added Costing based on actual or estimated costs
• Hand-held wireless functions for Picking & Location Change
• Barcoded labels for scanning & identification purposes
• Record Use of Strippable Film or PVC ('Consumables')
• Specialized Flat-rolled Features
  • Substitute tag function
  • Accommodate in-line scales, scales at the end of packaging line, or a re-coil arm
• Specialized Functionality for Slitting
  • Full arbor layout with knife positions & OD breaks
  • Layout instructions (run full, run partial, OD splits/breaks, edge trim)
  • Slit & re-slit functions
  • Ability to run full or partial
  • Accommodate multiple master coil widths on a single job
  • Coil break points computed automatically (feet/meter, OD, Wall)
• Specialized Functionality for Cut-to-Length (decoiling, leveling)
  • Multiple order items from one or more customers can be grouped on single job
  • Specify return-to-stock dimension & quantity
  • Run full coil or partial & back off balance of master coil
  • Multiple master coil runs
• Specialized Functionality for Multi-strand Blanking (slit & level master coil to sheet in single pass)
• Specialized Functionality for Shearing
• Specialized Functionality for Oscillate Winding
• Multiple Banding & Packaging Modes based on plant configurations (to meet various packaging line configurations)
  • Use of Barcoded pre-production slit coil ID labels (affixed to slit coils while on re-coil arm, used to record weight or package a skid)
• Build-up Function
  • On-line, real-time packaging function to 'package' production from one or more master coils onto a single tag
• Specialized Functionality for Panels & Profiles 
  •  Includes special functions in order entry, production, packaging, etc. to accommodate composite panels, roofing/siding panels, etc.

Specialized Customer-Owned Functionality (Toll Processing)

• Same inventory coding as company-owned inventory
• Inventory automatically segregated from company-owned inventory
• Automated invoicing at time of production or shipment
• Automated Scrap Credit
• Option to invoice freight separately
• Storage Charge function
• Customer Inventory Statements
• Toll-specific reporting
• Track Customer-Owned Material & Orders
• Fax/Email material receipt acknowledgement to customer

Shipping

• On-line Transport/Load Planning by Route & Zone
• Includes transfers to sister warehouses and outside processors
• Identifies longest width & length for proper vehicle selection
• Multi-Stop Transports
• Real-time Transport Status (% Ready-to-ship)
• Common Carrier or Own Truck Designation
• Hand-held wireless functions for load verification
• Shipping documents include Manifest, Packing List and Bill of Lading
• Automatic print/email/fax of Original Mill Test Certificate &/or in-house certificate(s)
• Inbound & Outbound Truck Scheduling
• Customer On-time Delivery Analysis Database

Sales Management

• Customer & Product Sales Analysis
• Ranking Reports for Customers, Products and Sales staff
• Executive Management Dashboard (optional)

Financial Management

• Invoicing
• Credit Management
• Vendor Invoice Reconciliation
• Integrated AP, AR & GL
• Full GL Integration of all inventory, production, sales and invoicing transactions
• Financial Reporting
• Third Party Financial Product Integration (optional)

Workflow-enabled

• Automated Notification of System Event or User Action
• Notification via Email or STRATIX Workflow Queue

International Features

• Fully Multi-lingual software
• Document Control
  • Documents & reports print in the language of the customer and vendor
• Multi-currency transactions
• Supports envelope formats for different countries
• Country specific sales tax computations
  • European & VAT sales tax computations
  • Mexican tax Retention
• Supports A4 Paper Size
• Date Formatting based on user profile (day, month, year)
• Currency Formatting where a comma is used instead of decimals (1.000,00)
• Localized Test Certificates
  • Supports European Certificate Standards (3.1a, 3.1b, …)
  • Test Certificate Charges (common in Europe)
• Mechanical tests in imperial or metric units of measure
• Additional In-House Test Certificates to meet European standards
• Terms of Trade & Discount Terms (many more options than what is used in USA)
• Display of information in localized time zone
• Track Intrastat information (required in Europe)

STRATIX/MULTICO

• Used by companies with multiple divisions operating independently of one another, often with different operating requirements, at 'Arms Length', i.e. they exchange business transactions using independent sales, purchasing, shipping and receiving functions at a profit
• Provides ability to pool facilities & inventory together to provide operational synergies at minimal cost
• Includes features such as Consolidated Stock View & Inter-company transactions for sales order fulfillment or re-stocking

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