Control every piece, from receipt to shipment.
Every piece tracked by heat, grade, and dimension, your material and your customers', with its true landed cost and full history, on one record your whole team works from.
Your team knows the material. Your system doesn't.
That gap costs you time on every transaction, every day.
A customer calls and the first thing your rep does is walk to the yard or pick up the phone. On-hand and available-to-promise are two different numbers, and neither one is in your system.
Received, staged, cut, moved, shipped. By the time someone updates the spreadsheet, it's already wrong. You're always working from out-of-date data.
Everyone enters material differently. Same product, three different descriptions. No enforced structure means your data degrades with every transaction, and reporting, search, and costing all suffer for it.
A customer needs an MTR or you need to trace a heat back to the original PO. That means digging through files, emails, and three different systems to piece it together.
This is what Fion is built to fix.
Everyone sees the same material.
Define the attributes each material carries, size, grade, wall, coating, and the fields you choose, and Fion requires and enforces them every time material is created. Values come from controlled lists, not free text, so you stop getting three descriptions for the same tubing. The data is clean because the system will not let it be otherwise.
Know what every piece actually cost.
Every piece carries its true landed cost, purchase, processing, freight, and write-downs, broken out and explainable, not one blended standard. And the numbers are real: pipe received at theoretical length is tallied to actual at shipment, so what you sell and what you cost match what actually left the yard. You know the real cost of the exact joint you are about to ship, not an average.
This cost comes from a single purchase at a consistent unit price, with light processing and freight. No write-downs are tied to this coil, so the basis is clean.
Know who owns every piece.
Fion tracks ownership on every piece, so customer material stays separate from your own, never gets sold by mistake, and the work you do on it is billed to the owner. Whether it's toll processing coils or storing and processing customer pipe, the owner is never in question.
Every piece carries its whole history.
Heat, mill test report, and every event from receipt through processing to shipment live on the piece itself, each linked back to its receipt, PO, or work order. Pull a cert or trace a heat in seconds, instead of digging through files and email. Cost, cert, and history all sit on the same record.
Find any material, and know what is free.
Because every attribute is structured, filter your whole inventory by grade, size, or coating in seconds, across every site, yard, and rack. And you see not just what is on hand but what is actually available, what is committed to sales, committed to production, or on hold, so you never promise material that is already spoken for.
- Search by attribute, serial, PO, location, or status
- On-hand, available-to-promise, reserved, and on hold
- Scan to identify, receive, pick, and move material
Common questions about inventory in Fion
Can Fion track steel by its real attributes?
Yes. Grade, gauge, width, coating, OD, wall, length, heat: every piece carries the attributes and units its form demands, searchable by material, serial, source, and location.
How does a piece get its true cost?
Cost builds up as the material moves: purchase cost at receipt, freight when it ships or transfers, processing at the work order or vendor service. Ask "Explain this cost" and the buildup comes back with the source transactions behind it.
Can it separate company-owned, customer-owned, and consigned material?
Yes. Ownership is a first-class field on every piece, so mixed racks stay unambiguous, and consigned material carries its expiration clock.
Can we reconcile physical counts?
Yes. Count by the rack or by the location and reconcile against the system, so the floor and the book agree.
Does Fion auto-reorder material?
No. Buying stays yours. Fion shows what's on hand, what's committed, and what's inbound, so the reorder decision is informed instead of automated.
See how Fion tracks your material
Walk through the material master, true landed cost, and live availability with your actual product types.