Steel Pipe Manufacturing
Rack-level stock, weight-based invoicing and daily rate sheets that match how a steel mill actually trades.
Steel pipe and tube manufacturers run on a different rhythm than other factories. Daily rate fluctuations, gauge and OD combinations that explode the SKU count, weight-vs-piece reconciliation at the gate, and racks that have to be picked from the closest one in the yard. Pipetal was built first for this business, then extended outward. Every screen knows what a melting loss is, what a heat number means and how to bill 14 gauge 2 inch pipe by the foot or by the kilogram.
What hurts in Steel Pipe.
These are the friction points the owner already knows. Generic ERPs paper over them. Pipetal handles them by design.
How we solve it for Steel Pipe.
What teams in this vertical love most
Daily rates, one cell, every screen updates
Update the morning rate sheet once. Every quote, every sale order, every invoice picks the new price automatically. No accountant chasing rates around the office.
Rack-level truth, not just a number
Not “we have 200 pieces”. We have “180 in Rack A2, 20 in Rack C5, none in dispatch”. Pickers go straight to the closest rack and the yard stops looking like a mess.
Heat number to finished pipe, in one trail
Capture heat numbers at the BoM stage, watch melting loss and scrap on every batch, see true unit cost roll up to the finished good. No more guessing margin.
Modules that matter most for this vertical
Every Pipetal tenant gets all 12 modules. These are the ones this industry uses every day.
Who Steel Pipe fits best.
- Steel pipe and tube manufacturers in Lahore, Gujranwala, Karachi
- Iron and steel traders running daily rate boards
- Mills with multiple yards and rack-based pickers
- Owners who watch daily collection from another city
Frequently asked
Yes. Each customer can be configured for weight-based or piece-based billing, and each invoice line can override the default. The system computes both and stores both, so disputes get resolved in 30 seconds.
Pending Sale Orders that have not yet been invoiced pick the new rate when the Delivery Challan is generated, unless the order locked a rate at booking. You decide the policy per customer.
Import. Send us your existing item list and customer list as Excel and we load them on day one. Onboarding for a typical Lahore mill takes around two weeks end to end.
Ready to put Pipetal to work in your steel pipe business?
Talk to our team. We will walk through your factory’s exact use case.