The reliable spine
The non-AI spine is the source-linked workflow: clean records, rules, calculations, integrations, exception queues, approvals and reporting for Check every scrap, metal and ferro-alloy bill against what you agreed.
Metals, Foundries & Steel
Check every scrap, metal and ferro-alloy bill against what you agreed
Metals firms buy scrap, sponge iron, pig iron, billets, ferro-alloys, coke, fluxes and consumables in huge value against negotiated rates, grade premiums, weighbridge weights and freight terms, and almost nobody checks the bill against the rate and weight actually agreed. Invoices are paid against orders nobody matched to a weighbridge ticket and a GRN, so overbilling, off-grade material paid at on-grade rate, short-weights, duplicate payments, freight above the rate card and missed rebates slip through. Because the spend is enormous, this is the single best universal recovery wedge, and the most provable, because the recovered number is the client's own money with a line-level trail.
Who has it
Every segment, and one of the largest procurement leaks in metals because metal is most of the cost; sharpest for re-rolling mills (scrap and sponge iron), forging and heat-treatment units (billet and bar stock) and scrap and metal traders (the buy-side rate), and strong for foundries.
What we build
A clean vendor and rate-contract record (by grade and premium), then a deterministic match of PO against weighbridge ticket against GRN against invoice that flags every price drift, grade and quantity mismatch, short-weight, duplicate payment, freight overcharge and missed rebate. Clean invoices flow through for one-click approval; only genuine exceptions reach a person.
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 Check every scrap, metal and ferro-alloy bill against what you agreed; 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
Overbilling, short-weights and off-grade payments are caught before payment, not at audit; the re-keying disappears; buying runs to a rule instead of a relationship. Illustrative: a foundry cleaned its scrap and ferro-alloy vendor master and automated the bill-versus-agreement-and-weighbridge check and surfaced and recovered a meaningful amount, all auditable to its own documents. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative outcome
Overbilling, short-weights and off-grade payments are caught before payment, not at audit; the re-keying disappears; buying runs to a rule instead of a relationship. Illustrative: a foundry cleaned its scrap and ferro-alloy vendor master and automated the bill-versus-agreement-and-weighbridge check and surfaced and recovered a meaningful amount, all auditable to its own documents. 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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