Random lengths in. Exact answers out.
Saw cutting, drilling, and coping for long products, with every stick, cut piece, and drop tracked by heat, footage, and true cost.
You buy by the pound, stock by the piece, and cut by the foot.
Most systems track one of the three and guess the rest, so the rack always knows more than the system does.
A rack of random lengths isn't a quantity, it's a list. Generic systems count eaches and lose the lengths, so the computer says you have it and the saw says you don't.
Cut a 40-footer for an order and the drop that comes back is real steel with a heat on it. Unrecorded, it sits unidentified until someone scraps it, and you buy footage you already own.
Alloy bar into machine shops, beams into fabricators: both arrive with a heat and an MTR that must follow every cut piece. Lose the link and the material downgrades on the spot.
You buy by the cwt, stock by the piece, cut by the foot, and invoice by all three. When the units live in different columns, someone reconciles them by hand every month.
This is what Fion fixes, from the mill length to the last drop.
One bar, three orders, and the drop.
Modules built for long products
Every module in Fion understands long products natively: profile, size, grade, and footage. Here's how they map to your operation.
Track bars, beams, channels, and angles by profile, size, grade, and length, counted by the piece, bundle, and foot. Drops return to stock after every cut, costed.
Learn moreWork orders for cut-to-length, shearing, drilling, punching, and coping: stock lengths in, cut pieces out, each carrying the heat and its share of the cost.
Learn moreBuild quotes against live inventory filtered by profile, grade, and length. Allocate exact pieces, and the margin you see is the margin you'll get.
Learn morePOs carry the whole purchase cost, customs and duty included, and route for approval. Receive against the order, and every vendor charge lands in one queue, checked against what you expected to pay.
Learn moreEverything ready to ship waits in one queue. Generate the BOL and capture signed proof of delivery.
Learn morePurchase, freight, and processing build up on every bar and cut piece. Invoices post in batches to your accounting system.
Learn moreRunning long products with Fion vs. without
- Shapes tracked as free-text SKUs
- Cut lengths and drops tracked by hand
- Piece counts and footage in separate sheets
- MTRs stored in filing cabinets
- Margin guessed from average cost
- Profile, size, grade, and length tracked natively
- Drops return to stock with heat and value intact
- Pieces, feet, and pounds on one record
- MTRs linked by heat, pulled in seconds
- Margin from each cut piece's actual cost
Common questions from bar and structural operations
Can Fion handle random lengths and actual lengths?
Yes. Every stick is a tracked piece with its own length, so a rack of 10/12 randoms reads as the list it actually is, not a count of identical eaches. Cut pieces and drops keep their real footage.
What happens to drops and short ends?
They return to stock automatically when the work order closes, carrying their heat and a real cost. A 6-foot drop is quotable inventory, not mystery steel in the back of the rack.
Does the cert follow the cut?
Yes. The heat and MTR are linked to the source material, and work orders track inputs to outputs, so every cut length traces to the stick and heat it came from. Pull the cert from any piece in seconds.
Does Fion optimize cut lists?
No. You decide the cuts. Fion is the system of record for what went on the saw, what came off, what it cost, and where the drop went.
Does Fion replace our accounting system?
No. Fion runs the operation and posts batched invoices to the accounting system you already keep, including QuickBooks, Dynamics, NetSuite, and Sage.