Store management software for foundries

What the store costs a foundry today

A heat waits because the ramming mass ran out, or a ladle cannot be relined in time. Then it is bought the same day from whoever has stock, at their price.

The store also holds many small items: core binders, grinding wheels, shot blast media, pattern repair material. When the register is behind, nobody is sure what is on the shelf, so the same item gets bought twice.

What a foundry store holds

• Pattern and core shop: pattern timber and resin, core sand, core binders and coatings.
• Moulding: silica sand, bentonite and other additives, resin and hardener.
• Melting: ferro-alloys, inoculants, furnace lining and ladle refractories.
• Fettling and finishing: grinding wheels, cutting discs, shot blast media.
• Maintenance: bearings, motors, belts and furnace panel spares.

Where foundries improve

Fewer heats waiting on the store

IndustryPrime lists items at their reorder level with a suggested quantity, beside what is already on indent and on order. You raise the indent before the shelf is empty. See preventing stockouts.

Ferro-alloy and refractory rates checked

These are bought again and again from a few vendors. Quotation comparison ranks every quote per item, and each purchase order shows the last approved rate and the difference before approval.

Short supply caught at the GRN

At the GRN, the receipt is matched to the PO. Short supply and rejections are recorded, so the invoice is checked against what actually came in.

Consumption by shop

Each issue is booked to melting, moulding, the core shop or fettling, so you can see which shop uses more sand or binder than usual. See consumption control.

Patterns sent out for repair

Patterns and equipment sent to vendors go out on returnable gate passes and stay on record until they come back.

Running in a foundry today

Bihar Foundry & Castings Limited runs its purchase and store on IndustryPrime. Read what their team says on the customers page, or see how it works in steel plants.