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ERP solutions for the metal industry

Driving your digital transformation

Is your organisation active in the metal sector? Are you also faced with the challenge of managing the complex processes in your company in a fully digital and future-proof way – from procurement and production and/or pre-machining and inventory management through to delivery? With unitop based on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform, you can benefit from the advantages of an end-to-end ERP solution that brings together the many years of experience in the sector and the certified Microsoft expertise that we offer. We provide targeted, sector-specific expansions that exceed the standard, reliably covering all of the key processes in the metal industry.

Tailored to your sector’s needs

Our unitop software solutions for the metal industry

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Metal processing

Is your company active in the metal processing sector? Are you also on the lookout for a fully digital ERP system to support your manufacturing, quality, advance costing and final costing processes? From work preparation, materials management and production planning to quality assurance: with unitop, you can control and document all relevant processes. Materials handling, technical drawings, test reports and calculations are fully integrated, so you can run your production, machining and assembly processes efficiently and in compliance with the relevant standards.

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Foundries

Are you a foundry operator and are you looking to display all of your production, quality and documentation processes digitally? unitop can provide you with targeted support in managing and monitoring your melt planning, mould management and casting and finishing steps. The system displays test reports, material and alloy management, the requirements of official standards, and seamless batch and traceability requirements in full, documenting the process in a thoroughly transparent and auditable way, while complying with the relevant standards.

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Metal trade & steel service centres

Trading in steel or non-ferrous metals or operating a steel service centre? Let unitop provide you with sector-specific expansions to optimise and streamline your metal trade and steel service processes. Whether your tasks involve purchasing materials. inventory management, cutting to size, offcut or scrap management, managing certificates digitally, calculating prices and add-ons, or state-of-the-art route planning, our end-to-end ERP software solution will help you complete all of your key tasks. Enjoy full transparency and efficiently digitalised processes – from the initial enquiry through to final despatch.

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Innovating. Transforming. Succeeding.

ERP software for the metal industry: Get a head start thanks to our expertise

unitop combines the tried-and-trusted stability and future-proof nature of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with targeted expansions that display all of the key processes in the metal industry in full. From primary production, manufacturing and processing through to commercial processes and after-sales service, you’ll receive a standards-compliant, scalable ERP software package to efficiently control your sector-specific processes and configure your business processes for the future. Harness the power of a solution that offers a high degree of standardisation, rapid deployment and state-of-the-art technologies, and is intuitive to operate. unitop delivers maximum flexibility – from automatic updates to a range of expansions to choose from. What’s in it for you: an ERP software solution that not only fulfils your current needs, but grows along with you.
 

  • A high degree of standardisation
  • Quick to deploy
  • Secure, stable and scalable
  • Innovative and future-proof technologies
  • Automatic updates
  • Available anywhere and on any device
  • Integrates external programs by means of web-based services
  • Harnesses AI and business intelligence solutions for greater transparency
  • Intuitive to operate thanks to its Microsoft look and feel
  • First-class support

Testimonials

A selection of our longstanding customers
BEPRO-STAHL logo: red lettering in capital letters on a white background, centred.
Blue logo ‘NAUMANN STAHL’ with square figurative mark ‘N STAHL’ above it, on a white background.
STAHL KREBS logo in blue with the slogan ‘our steel. YOUR BUSINESS.’ on a white background.
UnionStahl GmbH logo in blue and orange with the addition of GROBBLECH-SERVICEBETRIEBE, clearly set.
Blue "HS" logo with white S; word mark ‘HORST SPRENGER’ in capital letters below, on white.
Red ‘LUKAS’ logo with tool pictogram above the K; fine lines above and below.
Logo ‘Nüssle Werkstoffe Technik GmbH’ with black figurative mark and slogan ‘Always one cut ahead!’.
Green hexagon as a frame; containing the black word mark ‘SIGMA’ as a geometric picture-word mark.
Blue ‘SUMITOMO’ logo with diamond logo; subline ‘CARBIDE · CBN · DIAMOND’ in the bar.

What our customers say

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Specific metal-sector functions in unitop

Our end-to-end ERP solution for the metal industry – its main functions at a glance

Batch & serial number tracking

From goods inward and production to despatch, with unitop, you can seamlessly track all materials and products across all stages of the process.

Certificate & quality management

With our ERP software, you can digitally manage and archive test certificates, raw materials and standards. That way, all relevant quality data can be securely accessed at any time for auditing purposes.

Dimensions management & quantity conversion

You can experience the advantage of a flexible quantity conversion feature that automatically differentiates between units, length, surface area and weight. Ideal for coils, metal sheets, pipes and bars of any type.

Documents & drawing management

Technical drawings, lists of materials, test reports and other key documents are stored centrally in the integrated document management system and can be called up at any time.

Flexible pricing & calculation logic

With unitop, dynamic surcharge calculations, material and alloy surcharges, and graduated prices are reliably displayed in the system.

AI-assisted incident management

The integrated unitop add-on AI basics uses artificial intelligence to help you automatically record and classify business events. It also recognises changes to master data, summarises complex processes and provides targeted suggestions about what actions need to be taken.

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unitop interface with table view for calculation formulas for item and quantity weights
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Laptop displays tabular overview in unitop – with workplace groups and associated capacities
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Making technology usable

unitop – an ERP solution with powerful added functions for the metal industry

Alongside its range of core functions, unitop offers extra tried-and-trusted functions that have been tailored to perform typical processes in the metal industry, and provide targeted assistance in your day-to-day operations.

From procurement to despatch, with unitop, you can maintain an overview of all batches, materials and production orders at every stage. That way, you will be well prepared for audits or when responding to complaints, and can ensure transparency at every step of the process.

When capturing master data, material numbers or testing data, configurable mandatory fields will help you avoid forgetting any relevant details – while documenting material tests when drawing up test certificates, for example.

With unitop, you can assign a status value to every task – to display the current processing status during melts, forming processes or deliveries, for example.

Transport and delivery planning are displayed completely digitally. This means that you can assign a variety of packs of sheet metal of differing dimensions and weights for a daily route to multiple metal processors and record them using connected weighing scales.

With unitop, you can receive online orders directly in the ERP, calculate prices and manage delivery deadlines conveniently from a single system. Networking your order processing in this way will take your distribution operations to new levels of efficiency.

With unitop HUB, you can securely link weighing scales, machines or racking systems to unitop. The precise coil weight or saw lengths can be directly transferred from the device to the ERP system, without any data leaving the internal network.

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