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Product updates, industry insights, and best practices for steel service centers and metal distributors.
The Steel ERP Landscape in 2025: Who's Who and What's Changing
A fair, thorough overview of every software option available to steel service centers. If you read only one article before choosing, make it this one.
All-in-One vs. Best-of-Breed: The Steel Distribution Verdict
The tech industry has debated suite vs. point solution for decades. In steel distribution, the answer is clear.
The State of Digital Transformation in Steel Distribution: 2025 Report
An honest assessment of where the steel industry stands on technology. Most service centers still run on-premise desktop software.
The Real Cost of Running Five Disconnected Systems
A typical mid-size service center runs MetalTrax for inventory, QuickBooks for accounting, Outlook for CRM, Excel for quoting, and a whiteboard for production scheduling. We calculated the hidden costs.
The Vertical SaaS Revolution: What Toast, Procore, and Veeva Teach Us About Steel Software
Toast built a $15 billion company by understanding that restaurants are not retail stores. Steel distribution is next.
Why Generic ERP Fails Steel Service Centers
SAP, Oracle, and NetSuite were built for widget manufacturers. Steel inventory is dimensional, priced by CWT, tracked by heat number, and managed as remnants after processing. Here are the five fundamental mismatches.