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GoSmarter for Production Planning

Save time so that you can focus more on getting orders out

Optimise cutting plans, reduce scrap by up to 50%, and keep orders moving — with tools your team can use from day one.

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Key Capabilities

Cutting Optimisation

Automatically generate cutting plans that minimise off-cuts and reduce material waste across bar, plate, and sheet.

Production Scheduling

Plan and track orders through production with clear visibility of status and progress — no more chasing updates.

Material Allocation

Match available stock to live orders efficiently, reducing both over-allocation and stock-outs that stop production.

Scrap Tracking

Measure scrap at every stage of production to identify where waste is highest and why — then fix it.

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The Opportunity

Stop doing busy work

If you’re spending time shuffling paper, you’re not making product. Eliminate inefficiencies and manual tasks that slow you down.

  • Fast Cutting Plans: Our production planner creates a starter cutting plan for bar, plate, tube, and sheet. It knows about your available lengths, your remnants from previous jobs, and the orders waiting in the queue. Use it daily to draft your schedule before you review it and assign it to your team. It understands steel. It does not need explaining.
  • Smarter Use of Stock: The optimiser uses up usable offcuts and remnants first, minimising new stock consumption. When your cutting plans use existing stock intelligently, you stop ordering steel you already have in the rack.
  • Pain-Free Lineage: We attach the mill certificate for each heat code to your stock automatically. And if the cert grade does not match what the job requires, GoSmarter flags it before the material hits the saw. No more hunting for PDFs. No more bad cuts on the wrong grade.

Cut the Scrap

Errors cost money. Scrap costs money. We help you stop making both. Use tools built for the shop floor, not the boardroom.

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Why GoSmarter

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Your team should be building things, not typing.

  • Stop Wasting Time - Save 140 hours a year on data entry. That is based on teams spending 15–20 minutes per job on manual cert entry, planning updates, and stock lookups across 3–5 jobs a day. Your exact saving depends on your job volume. The

    Business Case Calculator runs it for your operation.

  • Stop Wasting Metal - Long-products customers on rebar and bar stock typically see 20–50% 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 50% figure comes from Midland Steel’s rebar operation.
  • Better on-time delivery - When cuts are planned against live stock and live orders, last-minute allocation clashes stop. Jobs that were blocked by missing or mis-allocated material start moving again. On-Time In-Full (OTIF) improves because the information that used to delay decisions is always visible.
  • Works with what you have - Sits on top of your ERP, spreadsheets, or job-management system. Infor, Epicor, Dynamics, Sage. It does not matter. Import a CSV and you are live. No IT project, no integration consultant.
  • Plug and Play - No IT department required. Just log in and start working.

Midland Steel

Midland Steel optimises rebar production planning and reduces scrap by 50%
Midland Steel used GoSmarter to fix its production planning. They cut their scrap rate by 50%. That’s real money that stayed in the business instead of going in the bin.

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 much scrap can GoSmarter's Cutting Plans reduce?

In trials with long-products manufacturers, Cutting Plans has reduced scrap rates by up to 50% compared to manual cutting plans. The exact saving depends on your current process and the mix of orders you run, but any business generating off-cuts from bar, tube, or plate stock will see a measurable improvement.

What materials does Cutting Plans support?

Cutting Plans handles any linear cutting problem: steel bar, aluminium extrusion, tube, rebar, timber, and other long products. It is material-agnostic — if you’re cutting stock lengths to customer requirements and generating off-cuts in the process, the optimiser will find a better plan.

Does GoSmarter work with our existing production planning tools?

Yes. GoSmarter integrates with existing workflows via CSV import/export and API. Many customers use GoSmarter alongside a basic ERP or job-management system — GoSmarter handles the cutting plans and material allocation while the ERP manages the order book and invoicing.

How does GoSmarter handle quality checks during production?

Quality checks during production are not currently a GoSmarter feature — we think this is better handled in your manufacturing execution system or MES. That said, GoSmarter does automate compliance documentation and certificate traceability, removing a significant admin burden from the production process. If this is something you need, contact us.

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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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