Buy it, stock it, ship it, bill it.
Every joint tracked by heat, OD, wall, and grade, with the MTR linked to the piece and the true cost riding along, from the mill to the rack to the rig.
Every joint has to trace back to its heat.
That trail has to survive receiving, threading, and resale. When the certs live in a filing cabinet, it usually doesn't.
Your customer needs the heat and the cert with every joint you resell, processed or not. When certs live in a filing cabinet, every shipment waits on a search, and the customer hears "let me find it."
Green pipe goes out plain-end and comes back threaded and coupled. If the finished joint can't prove it came from the original heat, the cert chain snaps exactly where you added the value.
Threading, coating, and inspection are someone else's invoice. The charges arrive weeks later and never quite land on the joints they touched, so the real cost per joint is a guess.
Stocking programs, consignment, and rig returns fill your yard with pipe you don't own next to pipe you do. One mixed-up tag and inventory value, billing, and trust all wobble.
This is what Fion fixes, from the mill to the rig.
One joint, whole history.
Modules built for pipe
Every module in Fion was designed with steel processing and distribution in mind. Here's how they map to your pipe operation.
Live stock across yards and racks, filtered by the attributes that matter for pipe. Company-owned, customer-owned, and consigned joints tracked separately, with the consignment clock running.
Learn moreWork orders for OCTG processing, in-house or through a vendor: green pipe and couplings in, threaded and coupled joints out, same heat, cost attached.
Learn moreBuild quotes against live inventory filtered by OD, wall, length, and connection. Allocate exact joints, 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 moreBuild shipments from the ready-to-ship queue, generate the BOL, and capture the driver's signature at completion.
Learn morePurchase, freight, and processing build up on every joint, piece by piece. Invoices post in batches to your accounting system.
Learn moreRunning pipe with Fion vs. without
- Shipments wait while someone hunts the cert
- Threading breaks the heat chain
- Vendor invoices never land on the joints they touched
- Customer pipe and company pipe one tag apart
- Margin per joint guessed from averages
- The MTR linked to every joint, pulled in seconds
- Green pipe in, T&C out, same heat, cost attached
- Vendor services costed to the exact joints
- Ownership on every piece, consignment on a clock
- Margin from what the joint actually cost
Common questions from pipe operations
Does Fion track heat numbers and MTRs through threading and coating?
Yes. The heat and MTR are linked to the source material, and work orders track inputs to outputs, so a threaded and coupled joint still traces to the plain-end pipe and heat it came from. Pull the cert from the piece in seconds.
Can Fion handle customer-owned and consigned pipe in our yard?
Ownership is a first-class field on every piece, so company-owned, customer-owned, and consigned pipe live side by side without confusion. Consigned material carries an expiration clock from the day it's received.
We're a distributor, not a processor. Does Fion fit?
Yes. Fion tracks the buy, the stock, and the resale with the paperwork riding along, and when you do send pipe out for threading or coating, the vendor service lives on a work order with its cost landing on the joints it touched.
How does Fion cost a joint?
Purchase price, customs, and handling are set on the PO and land on the material at receipt. Freight lands when the pipe moves, and processing lands at the work order or vendor service. Margin is computed from the exact joints allocated to the order, not an average.
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.
See the cert ride with every joint.
We'll walk the whole path, from mill receipt to signed BOL.