Metal Business Manager

ERP Software for Metal Service Centers

Elevate Productivity Accelerate Growth Maximize Profit Reduce Costs

A next‑generation ERP — engineered to optimize inventory, strengthen customer relationships, and improve your bottom line with secure, flexible cloud or on‑premise deployment.

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Why Choose MBM?

EDI and custom development for metal service centers

MBM is engineered from the ground up for metal service centers — not a generic ERP stretched to fit. With intelligent modules for Resale, Toll Processing, Inventory, Purchasing, Sales, Production Scheduling, Packaging, Shipping, and Invoicing, MBM helps you run your entire business with greater control, speed, and accuracy.

Complete Inventory Management

For resale and toll/customer-owned material (COM) with powerful search, multi-pricing, end-to-end traceability, and barcode-driven efficiency.

Create and Manage Quotes and Sales Orders

Create and manage resale and toll/COM quotes and sales orders with precision, efficiency, traceability, and control.

Centralize Customer and Prospect Management

With multiple ship-to addresses, default requirements, and complete financial controls, including currency, credit limits, terms, banking information, and taxes.

Streamline Purchasing and Receiving

With flexible purchase order processing, real-time material visibility, barcode-enabled receiving, EDI ASN integration, and full visibility into PO status, revisions, and workflows.

Optimize Production

With one-click run creation from sales orders, multi-order job processing, real-time plant visibility, advanced scheduling, end-to-end traceability, flexible slit layout control, WIP tracking, and integrated barcode, print, and EDI workflows.

Streamline Packaging and Shipping

Barcode-enabled lift tags, automated generation of packing slips, status tracking, shipment scheduling, and integrated delivery of shipping documents and MTR certificates via print, email, and fax.

Manage Financial Operations

One-click invoicing from packing slips, BOLs, and sales orders, advanced invoice search, customer-specific tax and currency support, credit management, strong audit trails, full G/L integration, and financial reporting.

Real-Time Analytics

Analyze sales performance and gain deeper profitability insight with profit margin analysis by customer, geography, product attributes, inventory items/coils, and sales rep.

Built-in EDI

Enhance speed, accuracy, and efficiency with MBM’s built-in EDI capabilities to reduce errors, lower transaction costs, and shorten the order-to-cash cycle.

Enterprise Security

Role-based access control with full audit trails at the group, user, module, and data-field level.

Fast Implementation, On-Premise or Cloud

Go live fast with MBM, an industry-ready system you can deploy on-premises or in the cloud, with no lengthy customizations or workarounds.

Dedicated Support

Our team of metal industry experts provides responsive, knowledgeable support every step of the way.

Services

We are here to help you with custom business solutions to fit all of your needs

Inventory Management Interface

Streamline Your Metal Operations

Inventory Management

  • Manage resale and toll inventory with full traceability.
  • Search by product, gauge, location, heat number, status, tag, and owner.
  • Create inventory from purchase orders, EDI ASN files, or replicated items.
  • Print and scan barcoded tags for faster warehouse workflows.
Customer Manager Interface

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Customer Manager

  • Create and maintain complete customer and prospect profiles.
  • Support multiple ship-to addresses and customer defaults.
  • Track financial details including terms, taxes, and credit limits.
  • Configure EDI requirements and view customer financial history.
Sales Order Interface

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Sales Order

  • Create quotes and orders for resale and toll processing material.
  • Search orders quickly by part number, PO, gauge, and dimensions.
  • Convert quotes to orders in one click and track full order status.
  • Generate shipping tags and production orders directly from sales.
Purchase Order Interface

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Purchasing & Receiving

  • Create standard, blanket, and buyout purchase orders.
  • Track revisions, statuses, and material on order or on hand.
  • Receive from PO or EDI notice and print barcoded inventory tags.
  • Support both imperial and metric purchasing workflows.
Sales Analysis Dashboard

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Sales Analysis

  • Analyze sales by customer, country, location, gauge, and product.
  • Track productivity, profitability, and quote-to-order performance.
  • Generate executive summaries by value, weight, and GL account.
  • Surface the metrics needed for faster management decisions.
Production Run Interface

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Production

  • Create production runs from sales orders with one click.
  • Schedule work centers and track runs through every status.
  • Capture shop-floor activity in real time with barcode workflows.
  • Support slit, re-slit, restock, and return-to-stock processes.
Packing Slip Interface

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Packaging & Shipping

  • Create lift tags, packing slips, and shipping documents faster.
  • Track shipping and packing by route and delivery status.
  • Scan tags for loading confirmation and shipment accuracy.
  • Print, email, or fax documents and certifications automatically.
Invoice Interface

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Financial Management

  • Create invoices from packing slips, BOL, and sales orders.
  • Manage taxes, currencies, credit control, and audit trails.
  • Access integrated G/L reporting and financial visibility.
  • Extend into third-party financial integrations when needed.
EDI Interface

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EDI

  • Use built-in EDI to accelerate order-to-cash cycles.
  • Reduce manual entry errors from phone, fax, and email orders.
  • Improve transaction accuracy and customer responsiveness.
  • Lower administrative cost through integrated data exchange.
Reports Interface

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Reports, Barcodes and Certs

  • Run financial, sales, inventory, purchasing, and shipping reports.
  • Support barcode-driven processes across warehouse and production.
  • Deliver test certificates and operational documents faster.
  • Give teams immediate access to the data they need every day.
Security Interface

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Security

  • Control access by group, user, module, menu, and data field.
  • Trace every entry and modification with detailed audit history.
  • Protect sensitive operational and financial information.
  • Support enterprise-level governance without slowing daily work.

Streamline Your Metal Operations

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Select a module to preview the screen and see how MBM supports each stage of your metal service center workflow.

What Our Clients Say

Trusted by metal service centers to transform their operations

"MBM has completely transformed how we manage our flat-rolled inventory and production scheduling. We reduced processing errors by over 40% in the first year alone."

Operations Director
Flat-Rolled Service Center, Ontario

"The built-in EDI module saved us thousands in integration costs. Our order-to-cash cycle time dropped by 25% and our customers love the faster turnaround."

General Manager
Multi-Line Metal Distributor, USA

"We evaluated three ERP vendors before choosing MBM. The depth of metal-industry-specific features was unmatched, and the implementation was fast and painless."

VP of Technology
Steel Service Center, Alberta

See MBM in Action

Schedule a personalized demo and discover how Metal Business Manager can streamline your operations, boost profitability, and give you the competitive edge.

  • Live walkthrough of all modules
  • Tailored to your specific workflows
  • No obligation — completely free
  • Available via online meeting

Request Your Free Demo

Give us a call at 1-416-803-8792 or complete the form below — our team will reach out shortly to schedule your personalized demo.