If you're a steel stockholder…
Stock Forge is the complete operating system for steel stockholders — real-time stock, traceability, quotes, cutting, yard mapping and Forge AI, in one tightly integrated platform.
Built for steel merchants, fabricators, and stockholders — used on the warehouse floor, in the office, and at the weighbridge.
Average annual loss from mis-cuts and stale prices
Stockholders who lose orders to spreadsheet errors
Daily time spent reconciling stock by hand
Most stock systems were built for boxes on shelves. Stock Forge was built for steel — bars, plates, tubes, sections, off-cuts, and the cuts you make from them.
The Cutting Optimiser nests 1D bars and 2D plates with First-Fit Decreasing and guillotine algorithms, automatically writes off-cuts back to inventory, and inherits heat numbers along every cut.
Heat numbers, mill certificates, and chain-of-custody travel with the steel from goods-in to dispatch. Generate a certificate pack for any sales order in one click.
Ask any steel question in plain English: knowledge (grades, standards, tolerances), own-stock ("how much 152×152×30 UC do I have?"), or market ("who’s cheapest for 12m lengths right now?"). Paste a supplier quote email and the AI extracts supplier, product, size, price, and validity automatically into a shared quote library.
Natural-language search on Stock and Off-Cuts tabs. Predictive reorder shows what’s likely to run out in the next 30 days. Nightly anomaly alerts flag large adjustments, off-cut yield mismatches, and suspicious timing patterns — no query writing required.
2D yard editor + 3D rack view + heat-number heatmap. Drop a heat number into search and the yard lights up where every piece lives.
Direct HTTP + MQTT ingestion from weighbridges and cutting machines, with mapping rules and a live test console. No more re-keying tickets.
Quotations → Sales Orders → Picking → Dispatch → POD → Invoicing, all PDF-ready, all linked to live stock with reservations that respect cuts.
Stock changes propagate instantly to web and mobile. Office, workshop, forklift drivers, and admins all see the same numbers at the same time.
Per-category thresholds, per-supplier defaults, scheduled or instant triggers, an approval queue, and full PO lifecycle (draft → sent → received).
Every cut, reservation, settings change, user action, and certificate upload is logged with operator, timestamp, and full diff. Filterable, exportable, archivable.
Stock Forge replaces the spreadsheet, the second app, and the weighbridge logbook. Here's what's in the box.
Beams, channels, angles, sheet — tracked by heat number, location, certificate. Automatic off-cut routing when a cut leaves a usable remnant; configurable scrap thresholds per category.
Multi-yard, multi-bay, multi-rack hierarchy. 2D editor for layout, 3D rack view for visualising stack heights, heat-number heatmap that shows where every piece of a casting lives.
Heat numbers travel with every cut. Mill certificates uploaded, indexed, and bundled with the sales order at dispatch. Full chain-of-custody from goods-in to invoice.
Build a quote, convert to sales order, pick stock with reservations, dispatch with POD, invoice with linked PDFs. Every step audited and every line item linked to live stock.
1D bar nesting (First-Fit Decreasing, configurable kerf) and 2D plate nesting (guillotine bottom-left-fill). Cut Plan tab inputs requirements, picks stock, prints the plan, commits cuts and writes off-cuts back automatically with full chain-of-custody.
HTTP + MQTT endpoints for weighbridges and cutting machines. Mapping rules turn raw device payloads into stock movements; a built-in test console replays and validates without affecting live stock.
Chat-style steel intelligence: knowledge queries (grades, standards, EN specs), own-stock queries (live inventory lookups), and market queries (supplier quote ranking + curated UK stockholder directory). Paste any supplier quote email and the AI extracts product, size, price, and validity into a shared team quote library.
Natural-language search ("all 6m S355 RHS in bay B") on Stock and Off-Cuts tabs. Predictive reorder lists items likely to run out in the next 30 days. Nightly anomaly detection flags large adjustments, off-cut yield mismatches, odd timing, and negative stock.
Admin, Office, Workshop, Forklift — each role sees what it needs. Per-feature gating, per-company tier, optional Super Admin overrides. Full self-service password reset.
Sign-on parity with the web app. Designed for the warehouse floor: barcode scan, cut, reserve, mark-as-dispatched, all offline-tolerant. APK download in /download.
The Stock Forge Android app is built for steel yards: large tap targets, glove-friendly UI, barcode scanning, and a Forklift role optimised for picking and putaway. Same data, same audit log, same reservations as the web app.
Submit your company details. We review and arrange activation — usually same business day.
Import inventory, draw your yard, add suppliers, invite your team. Onboarding wizard walks you through everything.
Quote, cut, dispatch, reorder. The audit log handles compliance. The optimiser cuts waste. The AI finds what you need.
Less off-cut waste, fewer stock-outs, faster quote-to-cash, no certificate paperwork chasing. Most customers see ROI within the first month — and the Cutting Optimiser alone often covers the monthly fee on a single project.
From £149/mo for small yards, £950/mo for Pro with full optimiser, devices, yard map and AI, up to enterprise on quote. All monthly plans get 50% off the first 12 months.
Contact us for a custom quote, perpetual licence pricing, or to discuss self-hosted enterprise deployments.
Every feature in Stock Forge solves a real problem we've watched stockholders solve with spreadsheets, sticky notes, and "ask Steve at the weighbridge". From single-yard merchants running ten product lines to multi-site operations cutting bar to drawing — the platform scales without a re-platform.
Try the live demo — no sign-up required — or claim 50% off your first 12 months.
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