GoSmarter for Compliance Management
Stay compliant without slowing down production
EN 10204 compliance software for metals — automate mill cert management, material traceability, and quality documentation. Audit-ready before anyone asks.
Key Capabilities
Mill Certificates
Read, extract, and store data from mill test certificates automatically — no more typing chemical compositions off a photocopy.
Material Traceability
Track every piece of material from goods-in to despatch with a complete, auditable chain of custody.
Quality Documentation
Capture inspection records and quality checks digitally at the point of work — linked to the right order, every time.
Compliance Reporting
Generate audit-ready reports in seconds. No more hunting through filing cabinets the week before an inspection. EN 10204 type 3.1 and 3.2 certificate formats supported as standard.
Export Your Data Anytime
GoSmarter is hosted in the EU and built for GDPR compliance. Export all certs, stock records, and audit trails as CSV any time. No exit fees. No lock-in. Your data stays yours.
The Opportunity
Nobody gets excited about compliance. It’s a necessary evil that eats up time and kills productivity.
Turn it from a burden into a background task. GoSmarter reads mill certificates automatically: heat numbers, grades, chemical compositions, and mechanical properties. Every cert links to the relevant stock item in your live inventory. No typing. No filing. No hunting for a PDF the day before an audit.
When a job calls for S355J2 bar and the cert says S275, GoSmarter catches it before the material leaves the rack. Wrong grade, missing properties, heat number that doesn’t match the delivery note. GoSmarter catches it automatically. Your best engineer can stop squinting at spreadsheets.
Whether you’re a rebar supplier, a plate processor, or a cut-to-length service centre, the cert workflow is the same headache. The fix is the same too.
Start with certs. Most customers are live within a day, processing their first batch automatically within the hour. Once your certs are linked to stock, the rest follows naturally: cutting plans, order traceability, audit reports.
AI That Actually Works
Forget the buzzwords. We just automate the boring stuff so you can go home on time. Stop doing compliance by hand.
Why GoSmarter
We take the pain out of compliance. Save time and stop making mistakes.
- Fast Processing - 60% faster certificate processing. Teams handling 200+ certs a month typically recover 8–12 hours of admin time per week within the first month. Stop typing, start working.
- Catch bad stock before it hits the saw - GoSmarter does not just read your certs; it checks them against what you ordered. Wrong grade, missing mechanical properties, a heat number that doesn’t tie to the delivery note. GoSmarter catches it before the job starts. That is the difference between a data extraction tool and a metals-specific compliance platform.
- Optimised Yield - Stay compliant and profitable. Stop wasting material just to be “safe”.
- No rip-and-replace - GoSmarter reads certs from your email inbox, shared drives, or ERP attachments. It works with whatever cert workflow you have today. You do not need to change how your suppliers send certs.
Who Benefits Most From GoSmarter Compliance
GoSmarter is built specifically for the metals industry. It handles the certificate types, traceability requirements, and audit pressures that metals businesses face. It was not adapted from a generic document management tool.
Quality Managers
Before GoSmarter, a quality manager preparing for a customer audit typically spends two to three days on evidence gathering. They pull paper files. They cross-reference heat numbers against delivery notes. They assemble evidence packs. GoSmarter reduces this to a search and an export. Every cert, every stock movement, and every despatch record is linked and searchable. Audit preparation that took two days takes 30 minutes.
During production, the quality manager gets automatic flags for any cert that does not match the job specification. Wrong grade for the application. Missing mechanical properties. Heat number that does not tie to the delivery note. These catches happen before the job starts. They do not appear after a non-conformance report arrives from a customer and triggers a full investigation.
Store Managers and Goods-In Teams
Every stock item in GoSmarter carries its certificate history from the moment material arrives. When a delivery is received, GoSmarter reads the cert, extracts the data, and links it to the stock record automatically. The store manager does not type a heat number. They do not file a paper cert. They do not spend Friday afternoon hunting for the certificate for material that arrived on Monday. Material that has since been cut into five pieces across three separate jobs.
GoSmarter builds traceability in from day one. Not bolted on when an audit is announced.
Sales and Technical Teams
When a customer asks for the cert for a specific delivery, the sales or technical team retrieves it in under a minute. This is a daily occurrence in the metals business. With GoSmarter, they can. The cert is linked to the despatch record, which is linked to the production job, which is linked to the original stock item. The full chain is one search away.
That response time is a competitive differentiator. Customers who care about quality documentation notice when your team responds in 60 seconds instead of 60 minutes. The businesses that cannot find their certs quickly lose quality-sensitive customers. Those customers go to competitors who can. GoSmarter puts you in the first group.
Customer Spotlight: Midland Steel
What is the payback for your operation?
Customers typically recover the annual subscription cost in reduced scrap and saved admin time within the first quarter. The free Business Case Calculator puts real pounds-and-pence projections behind every GoSmarter solution: scrap rate savings, staff hours recovered, emergency procurement avoided. Export a PDF your finance team can review without sitting through a demo first.
Common Questions
What is mill certificate management and why does it matter?
Does GoSmarter support EN 10204 compliance?
How does GoSmarter help during a customer audit?
Does GoSmarter work with ISO 9001 or IATF 16949 quality systems?
Start Managing Compliance Without the Paperwork
GoSmarter is free to trial for 14 days. No credit card required. Most teams process their first batch of certificates automatically within an hour of signing up. Your existing certs can be uploaded directly — GoSmarter reads them from PDFs. There is no re-keying, no setup fee, and no long-term contract.
Once your certs are linked to stock, the rest follows naturally. Cutting plans pull cert data to verify grade compliance before any job starts. Order traceability links cert records to despatch notes. Audit reports generate in seconds from data captured automatically. Not assembled in a rush the week before an inspector arrives.
Go deeper
- Mill Certificate Automation: The Complete Guide — how GoSmarter reads, extracts, validates, and stores every cert automatically
- Integrated Cert Traceability & Auditability — building a complete, auditable chain of custody from delivery to despatch
- Midland Steel Manufacturing Case Study — how a leading rebar supplier automated certificate handling and cut audit prep time
- How Scrap Reduction and Cert Digitisation Feed CBAM and ESG Reporting — turning your mill cert data and scrap rate into audit-ready carbon evidence for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) questionnaires and EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) declarations
- GoSmarter vs Generic OCR/IDP Tools for Mill Certificates — why metals-specific AI is the right choice for cert processing
- Integration Strategy — how GoSmarter connects to your existing systems, from standalone use to full REST API integration with your ERP
Get Off the Spreadsheets. For Good.
Manual processes are killing your profit. Stop doing things the hard way. Get the tools you need to run a modern shop.