Enterprise software in the steel trade has traditionally meant large upfront licence fees, servers in the office and multi-year contracts. Much of it records transactions without helping you read them.
At SteelERP, we set out to build an accessible system for B2B steel trading. By combining advisory analytics with a monthly subscription, we let traders start on one yard and grow without a long-term contract.
"Software for a steel yard should not need a capital budget. A monthly subscription with no long-term contract means it has to keep earning its place, month after month."
What the Analytics Do Today
A standard ERP records what already happened: stock received, lorries dispatched. SteelERP ships with more than 50 reports covering sales, dispatch, stock movement, purchases, GST and TCS, and supervisor workload. On top of those sit a few advisory tools that look ahead. They inform a decision; they never place an order on their own.
1. Demand Forecast and Reorder Suggestions
SteelERP builds a weekly demand forecast for each product from your own sales history. Reorder suggestions combine that forecast with supplier lead time and current stock to propose a purchase quantity for each product, converting between kilograms and pieces using each size's weight, and show the reasoning behind each suggestion. They do not track market prices or tell you when to buy on price. That call stays with you.
2. Anomaly Detection
Weekly checks flag unusual spikes or dips in each product's sales and purchase movement, and in the total kilograms dispatched and received. Ledger checks also flag data problems such as a goods receipt recorded twice or stock going negative. Each flag carries the numbers that produced it.
The forecast, anomaly and reorder tools are available to the Super Admin by default, and Admins can be given access through a setting.
3. AI Planning Advisor (Optional)
An optional in-app chat answers planning questions using your own analytics. It runs on Anthropic's Claude under your company's own API key. The business summaries it works from are sent to Anthropic and are not anonymised, so real customer names appear in them. Check that this fits your data policy before you switch it on.
4. Customer Credit Alerts (Upcoming)
Upcoming. Today, each customer carries a credit period in days, which appears as the payment terms on inquiry PDFs and on inquiry and order notifications. SteelERP does not yet track outstanding balances or warn you before a lorry goes to an overdue account.
Monthly Plans, No Long-Term Contract
We believe B2B software should earn your business every month. Plans are priced per month, you can cancel anytime, and every plan includes the same core modules (optional features such as the customer portal and the AI Planning Advisor are switched on per account):
The Starter Node — ₹10,000/month
For a single-yard trader or stockyard owner with a smaller team:
- Up to 10 users.
- 1 stockyard.
- GST and TCS calculations, the two-way Tally link, and challan PDFs and status messages over WhatsApp (on your own WhatsApp Business account) and email.
Growth and Enterprise — Custom Quote
For multi-yard distributors and larger trading operations, pricing is a custom quote based on your number of users and stockyards. Request a quote and tell us how many users and yards you run.
Getting Your Data Out
We don't lock you in. Customers, the product catalogue and sizes, sales and purchase daybooks, delivery and purchase challans, and warehouse stock all export to Excel or CSV from within SteelERP, and the dashboard exports to Excel and PDF. Our pricing terms also commit to a full export of your data if you cancel.
Start Small, Scale Up
B2B modernization shouldn't be high-risk. On a monthly plan you can run SteelERP on one yard, check it against your own lorries and challans, and add users and yards as the business grows.