What Patna's steel trade looks like
Dina Mahabir Re-Rollers, at Agam Kuan, dates itself to 1960 and puts its capacity at 200 tonnes a day. Magadh Industries in Patna City, running since 2008, lists 550+ and 550D TMT bars, binding wire, flexible TMT coils, roofing colour sheets, steel pipes and GC sheets — the spread a builders' merchant actually sells. The district's older industrial profile lists further steel units in Patna City and at Fatuwa, and the state's own capacity is thin enough that Bihar has been signing memoranda for new integrated plants, including one in the Gaya region in 2026.
What that steel goes into is building: housing, commercial work, the metro whose first five stations opened in October 2025, and the fabrication and engineering shops the district profile counts in the low hundreds. The industrial areas are Patliputra and Fatuha inside the district, with Bihta about 30 km west.
Freight is changing. The eastern dedicated freight corridor that runs from Ludhiana ends at Sonnagar in Bihar, and the corridor operator expects finished steel among the freight on the onward section. The Ganga is a working waterway again: container cargo reached Patna's Gaighat terminal from Kolkata in 2018, and the Kalughat terminal in Saran district was handed to a private operator in November 2025. Kolkata and Haldia remain the ports. For a trader the job is to deliver to sites lorry by lorry, and to bill on what each lorry actually carried.
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 TMT, sheet, pipe and structurals.
Site-wise deliveries
One order can be split across sites and dates, each delivery sub-order carrying its own loading, challan, lorry number and delivery status, so a builder's running account stays readable.
One order, several lorries
Split an order into delivery sub-orders by unit type — TMT by kg, pipe by metre, sheets by piece — each with its own challan and lorry number.
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 — Bihar is GST state code 10 — 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 Patna — FAQs
Can SteelERP bill TMT on the weight that actually reached the site?
Yes. Each line carries the ordered weight and the weight actually loaded, and the challan and bill use the loaded figure, so short or over loads are billed as they went out rather than as they were booked.
Can one order supply several building sites over a week?
Yes. Split it into delivery sub-orders, each with its own loading, challan, lorry number and delivery status, and the order stays a single record while the lorries are tracked separately.
Does SteelERP work with Tally for a Patna 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 Patna 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
- Dina Mahabir Re-Rollers (Mahabir TMT): mahabirtmt.com
- Magadh TMT — products: magadhtmt.com
- MSME-DI district industrial profile, Patna: dcmsme.gov.in/dips/Patna.pdf
- PIB — eastern dedicated freight corridor, Ludhiana to Sonnagar: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2004494
- PIB — container cargo to Patna's Gaighat terminal: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1556043
- PIB — Kalughat terminal handed to an operator: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2187424
- GST state codes (NIC, Government of India): einvoice1.gst.gov.in/Others/MasterCodes