ENERGY & OCTG

ENERGY
& OCTG

INVEX software built for service centers focused on Energy and OCTG products.

The INVEX cloud-based metal software offers comprehensive functionality for metal and steel OCTG,bar and tube service centers or bar distributors. INVEX enables bar distributors to quickly take and ship orders with minimal screens and steps. Common business cases such as band sawing, turning, boring, or outside process such as trepanning can be handled quickly and out-of-the-box.

These OCTG, bar and tube companies, also referred to as OCTG bar and tube stockholders or distributors, normally carry a wide range of bar and tube products for the energy industry.

Orders can be fulfilled using the multi-step routing function that can fulfill an order across a single or multiple warehouses to saw or turn bar products.

This can include outside processing steps; all required transfers are automatically created.

CASES HANDLED:

Fast entry of quotes and orders
Receive inbound bars or tube while in-transit from the mill on a vessel, truck, or barge
Fast entry of quotes and orders
Fulfill pick and ship orders quickly
Buyouts and back-to-back orders
Direct ship orders (mill to customer direct)

Ability to enter orders for repetitive customer parts
Single or multi-step multi-plant processing
Outside processing for heat treatment, trepanning or turning
Handles common processes such as sawing, boring, and turning
Counter sales
Non-Conformance function for complaints and claims barge

BAR TURNING

Processes such as turning reduce the outside diameter (OD) of the bar. INVEX dynamically handles the new OD without the need to create a new product or part number for every possible diameter.

DYNAMIC OD & ID

In cases such as turning and boring, the OD and ID are also dynamic in INVEX. INVEX dynamically handles the new OD/ID without the need to create a new product or part number for every possible diameter.

MULTI STEP PROCESSING

The item route handles multiple processing steps that can be performing across warehouses (plants) or to/from outside processors. All transfer requirements are created automatically.

SCALE YOUR BUSINESS

INVEX empowers Energy and OCTG processors to scale to different business requirements

INVENTORY

FEATURES:

Products can be managed by tag, heat, or location control
Pipe and tube are commonly inventoried by heat
Specific or real-time average costing
Flexible stock search by grade, finish, OD, ID, or wall
Drop (remnants) can be viewed in the same inquiry as stock material
Bar, pipe, and tube can maintain a fixed, mill, or random length designation
Bars or tubes can be controlled by pieces, lineal measure, and weight
Length can be maintained in feet and/or inches
Stock screens shows pieces, footage/meters, and weight
Receive bars at actual or theoretical weight
Record Jominy test results
Heat treatment test certificates can be attached to inventory
Inventory Replenishment functions and tools

SALES

Fast entry of quotes and orders with real-time access to inventory and pricing information makes all the difference.

FEATURES:

Fast quote to order conversion
Short cut entry mode to speed up quote entry
Enter quotes for prospects
Source a single order from different warehouses
Enter a quote or order for bar to any diameter for turning process cases
Enter a quote or order for tube to any OD/ID for turning & boring
Integrated metal price book
Sawing pricing tables
Duplicate a quote or order
Attach a diagram or file to a quote or order
Multi-currency pricing

ORDER STATUS

A highly advanced and integrated Sales Order Status Desktop enables sales and customer service staff to view a comprehensive status of a customer order. Consolidated in a single, clear view, the INVEX Sales Order Status includes production planning, scheduling, shop floor progression, outside processing status, ready-to-ship designation, and logistics status

PRODUCTION

FEATURES:

Value-add costing
Capacity Planning
Production Scheduling
Multi-step processing (plasma burn, drill, grind)
Item route can be across multiple warehouses (multi-plant)
Item route can include outside processing steps
Planning function to group multiple orders onto the same Production Job
Drop (remnant) costing table to automatically reduce the cost of a drop
Integration with plate nesting software SigmaNEST
Record the run, setup, and down time
Record picking on a mobile device

PICKING

Picks can be recorded directly on the shop floor with a mobile device. The picker can scan the material being picked, print a shipping label, and if required package the material in a box directly from the mobile device. A label can be printed for the remaining bundle of material.

SHIPPING

INVEX shipment planning is completely online. A comprehensive multi-layer inquiry to view sales orders and inter-warehouse transfers can organize and summarize orders by delivery route or shipping zone for better load consolidation.

FEATURES:

Transport lineup shows all planned delivery loads by scheduled date and time
Shipping staff can view available capacity and route information
Loading List can be printed to help load the truck
Print a Packing List or Bill of Lading
Sequence the stops
Copy of the original mill cert or company certs are auto-printed and/or emailed
Plan a load with multiple warehouse pick-up points
Finished goods can be staged or live-loaded onto the truck

LOAD VERIFICATION

This function verifies that the material that is being loaded or has been loaded on a Vehicle is the correct material and that the transport includes all the items that were planned for delivery. Using a mobile device, the operator scans the barcoded Shipping Labels attached to the material that has been loaded.