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Steel ERP Software in Vadodara for Steel Traders and Stockists

Vadodara's steel goes into transformers, rail coaches and refinery plant, out of the Makarpura, Nandesari, Savli and Vaghodiya estates. SteelERP is a cloud ERP for the traders and stockists who supply those workshops, selling by weight, piece or metre. Plans start at Rs 10,000/month.

What Vadodara's steel trade looks like

The Baroda Metal Merchant Association lists its address at Navlakha Complex in Bajwada, in the old town. The nearest mills make long products rather than flat steel: Panchmahal Steel rolls stainless bars, rods and wire at Kalol in Panchmahal district — a rating agency put that at 72,000 tonnes a year of bars, rods and wire alongside a 150,000 tonne melting shop in 2020 — and Welspun Specialty Solutions makes alloy and stainless steel bars at its Bharuch plant.

Demand here is engineering rather than construction. Voltamp builds power transformers at Makarpura and distribution transformers at Savli, the district's industrial profile records a transformer cluster in Vaghodiya taluka, and Alstom's Savli unit makes commuter and transit train cars. The large plants nearby — the Gujarat Refinery, GSFC, ABB, L&T and Thermax — keep fabrication shops busy across Makarpura, Nandesari, Ranoli, Savli and Manjusar-Alindra, and the same profile (2016-17) counted metal working among the district's largest groups of small units.

The district has no port of its own: Hazira and Magdalla are the nearest, and Dahej, which lists steel and project cargo, is rail-linked through the Baroda division. Vadodara sits on the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor at Makarpura, with CONCOR's logistics park and container depot at Varnama about 20 km out, and India's first expressway runs 93 km to Ahmedabad. For a trader that means steel arriving by rail and road in part loads, and going out again cut to what a workshop ordered.

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 bar, rod, flat, sheet and structurals.

Sizes carry their own weight

The product, size and HSN catalogue holds each section and bar size with its unit weight, so a line booked in pieces or metres converts to tonnes on the challan without a side calculation.

One order, several lorries

Split an order into delivery sub-orders by unit type, so a transformer shop in Makarpura and a plant out at Savli can be served from the same order, each with its own challan, lorry number and 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 — Gujarat is GST state code 24 — 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.

Try SteelERP on a Vadodara-style order

Try the live sandbox with no credit card, then move your own godowns and yards onto a separate workspace. Starter plan Rs 10,000/month.

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GST (18%) & one-time setup charged separately. No lock-in · Excel export of customers, catalogue, challans, daybooks and stock.

Steel ERP in Vadodara — FAQs

Can SteelERP bill stainless bars and rounds by actual weight?

Yes. The ordered weight and the actual loaded weight both sit on the line, and the challan and bill use the loaded figure. Bars and rounds booked in pieces or metres convert to tonnes from the size's unit weight.

Can one order be delivered to plants in Makarpura and Savli separately?

Yes. Split it into delivery sub-orders: each has its own loading, challan, lorry number and delivery status, so part of the order can reach one plant today and the rest another tomorrow, without raising a second order.

Does SteelERP work with Tally for a Vadodara 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 Vadodara 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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