What Jamshedpur's steel trade looks like
The company's own description of the works runs from the hot strip mill and thin slab caster, whose coil is partly rolled on into cold rolled and galvanised coil, to the long product mills that roll billets into rebars and wire rods. Its cold rolling mill has grown from 1.2 to 2.0 million tonnes a year and makes galvannealed skin panels, high tensile and fuel-tank grade steel; the tubes division makes commercial, structural and precision tubes with an installed capacity of over 600,000 tonnes a year; the tinplate plant sits at Golmuri, three miles from the works; and special bar quality steel comes from Gamharia.
The demand side is Adityapur. The state industrial authority puts the industrial area at about 3,200 hectares with more than 1,200 units, in automobiles, steel and engineering, and the state infrastructure corporation notes that Tata Motors began making commercial vehicles here in the early 1950s, that more than 600 auto ancillary industries followed at Adityapur, and that auto-grade steels have been made in Jamshedpur since the 1980s — with a freight advantage in sourcing cold rolled sheet. CSIR's National Metallurgical Laboratory has been in the city since 1950.
Tatanagar sits on the Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line, NH-33 runs past, and Kolkata and Haldia are the nearest ports. For a trader that means buying flat steel or sections in mill lots and selling them on in the sizes and quantities an ancillary or a fabricator actually orders.
Ordered vs actual weight
Every line carries the weight ordered and the weight actually loaded, and the challan and bill use the loaded figure. Tonnage conversions cover coil, sheet, plate, tube and structurals.
Coil ledger
Each coil is held on its own: its weight, the yard it sits in, its movement history and the order it is allocated to, so a part-used coil is still accounted for.
One order, several lorries
Split an order into delivery sub-orders by unit type — sheet by kg, tube by metre, sections by piece — each with its own loading, challan, lorry number and delivery status.
Part shipments from the mill
Raise one purchase order and receive it through several purchase advices as trucks arrive, each booked into the yard that took it in. An optional security truck-in step logs arrival before unloading.
GST, TCS & Tally
CGST/SGST or IGST computed on the order line from the HSN code — Jharkhand is GST state code 20 — plus TCS reports. Tally pulls printed challans through an authenticated API, and SteelERP pushes to a webhook you provide.
50+ reports
Sales and purchase trends, top products, customers and suppliers, GST summary, supervisor loading workload, and challans raised but not printed the same day. Excel and PDF export.
What to know before you switch
SteelERP runs the operations side — inquiries, orders, dispatch, stock, purchase and reports — while Tally stays your book of accounts. Yard and dispatch staff can use the interface in Hindi or English, and customer, catalogue and size lists come in from your existing spreadsheets.
Each customer carries a credit period in days, which prints as payment terms on inquiry PDFs and order emails. Credit-limit checks and outstanding-balance tracking are Upcoming, as is live GPS tracking of lorries; today you record the lorry number on each delivery sub-order.
Your data sits in its own database on AWS in Mumbai. The optional AI Planning Advisor runs on Anthropic's Claude under your own API key; the business summaries it sends to Anthropic include real customer names and are not anonymised.
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Steel ERP in Jamshedpur — FAQs
Can SteelERP track cold rolled coil and sheet sold to Adityapur ancillaries?
Yes. Each coil sits in the coil ledger with its weight, the yard it is in, its movement history and the order it is allocated to, and every line bills on the weight actually loaded rather than the weight ordered.
Can deliveries against one order be staggered over several days?
Yes. Delivery sub-orders each carry their own loading, challan, lorry number and delivery status, so part of an order can go today and the rest later, with the paperwork matching what actually left the yard.
Does SteelERP work with Tally for a Jamshedpur trading firm?
Yes, in two directions. Tally pulls every printed delivery and purchase challan from SteelERP through an authenticated API, in the shape of the printed document, and SteelERP pushes to a webhook endpoint you provide. Your accounts stay in Tally.
How much does steel ERP software cost for a Jamshedpur stockist?
The Starter plan is Rs 10,000/month for up to 10 users and 1 stockyard. Growth and Enterprise plans, for more users and yards, are priced on a custom quote. GST (18%) and a one-time setup charge apply separately.
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Sources for the facts on this page
- Tata Steel — the making of steel at Jamshedpur: tatasteel.com/corporate/our-value-chain/the-making-of-steel
- Tata Steel — cold rolling mill, 25 years: tatasteel.com/newsroom/press-releases/india/2025/tata-steel-s-cold-rolling-mill-in-jamshedpur-celebrates-25-years-of-excellence-in-advanced-steel-manufacturing
- Tata Pipes — tubes division: tatapipes.com/about-us/tubes-sbu
- JIADA — Adityapur industrial area: jiada.jharkhand.gov.in/adityapur
- JIIDCO — auto cluster: jiidco.co.in/focus-sectors/auto-cluster
- CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory — fast facts: nml.res.in/fast-facts
- GST state codes (NIC, Government of India): einvoice1.gst.gov.in/Others/MasterCodes