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GoSmarter for Finance Solutions

Unlock new savings across operations

Track material costs in real time, understand your scrap spend, and protect margins before month-end confirms the damage.

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Key Capabilities

Material Cost Tracking

Know the cost of every order as it moves through production — not just when the invoice lands.

Scrap Cost Visibility

Understand exactly how much material is being wasted and what it is costing you — so you can stop it.

Margin Protection

Identify orders and products where margins are tightest and prioritise accordingly before it is too late.

Inventory Valuation

An accurate, real-time view of stock value your finance team can rely on for management accounts and reporting.

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The Opportunity

Find where the money is leaking

Stop guessing costs and start tracking them. Connect the office to the floor so you know what’s actually happening.

  • Stop Wasting Metal: Our production planner reduces scrap, which means money stays in your pocket, not the bin. Directly improve your Profit and Loss (P&L) and cost of goods sold (COGS). Long-products customers typically see 30–50% scrap reduction. At £600 per tonne, saving one tonne of scrap per week is worth £30,000+ a year.
  • Catch Bad Stock Early: Use data from certs to spot out-of-spec stock before you work it. No more rework costs. No more customer complaints about the wrong grade.
  • Buy What You Need: See your stock levels and value instantly. Stop over-buying and tying up cash in material that is already committed to jobs that have shipped, changed, or been cancelled.
  • Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impact on your P&L: Every tonne of scrap avoided means roughly 1.8 tonnes of CO₂e saved. Run your annual scrap volume through the

    Business Case Calculator to see your reportable ESG impact. Increasingly, your customers will ask for this data in supplier questionnaires. Have it ready.

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Why GoSmarter

It makes financial sense to maximise your biggest asset: raw material

Efficiency = Cash. We help you find it.

  • Cut Waste - Long-products customers on rebar typically achieve 30–50% scrap reduction with GoSmarter cutting plans. At £600 per tonne for mild steel, saving one tonne of scrap per week is worth £30,000+ a year. The

    Business Case Calculator runs this for your specific volume and grade.

  • First-quarter payback - Based on reduced scrap rates, recovered admin time, and avoided emergency procurement, most GoSmarter customers cover the annual cost within 90 days of go-live. We show the working in the

    Business Case Calculator. Your finance team can verify every number themselves.

  • Protect revenue from late delivery - When production visibility is live, sales and operations know early enough to manage customer expectations. Fewer late deliveries means fewer credit notes, fewer penalty clauses, and a revenue line that matches the order book.
  • Better Forecasts - Use real data from the floor to plan your cash. Stop waiting for month-end to discover where the margins went.
  • Feeds your finance systems - GoSmarter tracks costs at production level and exports clean data to your accounting software or ERP. It is the production-floor data layer that makes your existing finance tools more accurate. Not a replacement for them.

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.

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Common Questions

How does GoSmarter help reduce material costs?

GoSmarter gives you real-time visibility of what material is being used, scrapped, and left in stock — against actual order costs. Instead of discovering margin erosion at month-end, you see it as it happens and can act immediately. The Cutting Plans alone reduces scrap by generating optimal cutting plans, directly improving yield and reducing material spend.

What return on investment should we expect?

It depends on your current waste rate and the volume of manual admin your team handles. Manufacturers using GoSmarter typically recover the cost in reduced scrap and saved staff time within the first quarter. If you spend more than two hours a week chasing cost data or reconciling stock values manually, GoSmarter pays for itself fast. Use our free Business Case Calculator to run the numbers for your specific operation before you commit.

Does GoSmarter replace our accounting software?

No. GoSmarter works alongside your existing finance tools. It tracks material costs and scrap at the production level and can export data for your accounting or ERP system via CSV or API. Think of it as the production-floor data layer that feeds clean numbers into your finance systems, rather than a replacement for them.

How does GoSmarter help with inventory valuation?

GoSmarter maintains an accurate, real-time picture of stock on hand — including what is committed to live orders and what is genuinely available. Your finance team gets an up-to-date stock value they can rely on for management accounts, investor reporting, or pre-acquisition due diligence, without waiting for a manual stock count.

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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.

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