In the Steel branch SAP is the main ERP system. This system isn't adequate enough to manage you inventory. The exceptions doen't get the attention they deserve. The 'management by exception' systematics of Slim4 enables you to concentrate on the articles that aren't standard.

By complementing its ERP system with Slim4 Klöckner & Co (ODS) reduced stock levels and improved efficiency. The system replaced printed stock lists and provides the purchasing department with all required information. Following this, the purchase data was provided up to six times faster than before. As a result of this, new opportunities arose and the purchasing frequency for many items changed, consequently decreasing stock levels by thirty per cent

Other organisations in the Steel branch that succesfully work with Slim4 are for example:

	ODS
	Klöckner & Co is one of Europe’s largest multimetal distributors, with over two hundred years’ experience, expertise and knowledge of non-ferrous and steel products for construction and industry. Today Klöckner uses Slim4 – interfaced to their SAP R/3 system – to provide a better level of service to their clients. “We’re a lot closer to the stock now and can therefore react more quickly to market developments,” says Bart Ingen-Housz, Director of ODS, the Dutch subsidiary of Klöckner. Read more >>
	Van Leeuwen Wheeler UK
	40% stock reduction with no loss of service level performance. This time last year, the number-crunchers at Brierley Hill-based pipe and tube stockholders Van Leeuwen Wheeler were feeling more than a little hot under the collar as they weighed up the consequences of record high stock levels coinciding with the steel industry’s traditional 7-year roller-coaster cycle stuck firmly at its lowest point. Then there were the imponderables of quite how deeply the recession might bite after several years of sustained growth. And weighing heavily on top of all that, the net impact of buying-in sufficient and diversified stock to service the previous year’s 6% increase in turnover. Read more >>