Business Central for Specialty Metals Manufacturing

Connect incoming heat and lot identities to inventory, production consumption, new melt or batch numbers, downstream processing, finished products, and customer shipments. Forward tracing shows where a source heat or lot was used. Reverse tracing identifies the material origins of a finished heat, lot, or shipment.

– Maintain external supplier lot or heat references alongside internal lot numbers.
– Preserve genealogy when multiple lots are consumed into one output lot.
– Preserve genealogy when one lot is split into multiple products or shipments.
– Use transaction history to support investigations, quality reviews, and certification processes.

Use recipe and ingredient structures to define the expected materials and relative proportions used to produce an alloy. Production structures can coordinate ingredients, process steps, routing information, instructions, quality inspections, resources, co-products, by-products, and costs in one manufacturing definition.

Naviona’s alloy lot-balancing functionality brings selected inventory lots and their recorded chemical analysis into the production decision, enabling the planned contribution of each chemical element to be evaluated across the proposed melt or batch.

– Select candidate raw-material, master-alloy, virgin-metal, and reclaim lots for the planned batch.
– Use lot-specific chemistry rather than assuming every available lot exactly matches a nominal item specification.
– Calculate the weighted chemical contribution of the selected quantities.
– Compare projected chemistry with target alloy composition and specification ranges.
– Adjust source-lot quantities and identify additions needed to achieve target chemistry.
– Carry selected lots into production consumption to preserve genealogy.
– Record the resulting heat or output lot for downstream testing, release, traceability, and certification.

COSMO Quality Assurance can define test plans and test properties for receiving, production, and finished-product inspections. Test properties can represent chemical elements and metallurgical characteristics with target values and allowable ranges.

– Record spectrometer or laboratory results against a heat or lot.
– Compare results against alloy specifications and test plans.
– Preserve test history alongside material and production transactions.
– Support release, rejection, rework, downgrade, and additional balancing decisions.

Control whether material can be consumed or shipped based on quality status. Lots can remain quarantined while inspection results are pending and then be released or rejected through defined quality processes.

Recoverable material can be managed as a controlled inventory stream rather than disappearing into scrap variances. Reclaimed material retains visibility and can become an ingredient in future production.

– Distinguish recoverable material from true process loss.
– Create inventory for reclaim or revert materials.
– Preserve source-lot and production relationships.
– Record quality and chemistry information for reclaimed material.
– Include reclaimed lots in future alloy balancing calculations.
– Improve visibility into yield, recovery, inventory value, and reclaim utilization.

Define multiple expected outputs from the same production order and capture relationships between primary output, secondary output, reclaim, and loss. This provides a more complete operational and financial view of material yield.

COSMO Alloy Management supports management and billing of alloy surcharges. Alloy weights, alloy conditions, and alloy quotations can influence pricing while maintaining transparency throughout purchasing and sales processes.

– Assign alloy weights to items.
– Manage customer- and vendor-specific alloy quotations.
– Maintain alloy conditions and pricing rules.
– Automatically calculate alloy surcharges.
– Carry surcharges through quotes, orders, and invoices.

Connect charging, melting, alloying, sampling, pouring, casting, rolling, extrusion, drawing, machining, heat treatment, finishing, inspection, and packaging using shared inventory, traceability, costing, and financial controls.

Plan operations around furnaces, work centers, tooling, material availability, setup requirements, maintenance activities, and production priorities.

– Sequence manufacturing operations.
– Include setup and maintenance events.
– Reprioritize, move, or split production orders.
– View schedules graphically by work center.
– Monitor remaining capacity and bottlenecks.

Evaluate material and conversion costs using ingredients, operations, setup, overhead, batch size, reclaim, and additional outputs.

– Compare alternative material scenarios.
– Analyze yield and recovery impacts.
– Roll costs through intermediates and finished goods.
– Support pricing, quoting, and margin analysis.

Use heat, lot, production, and quality information as the governed data foundation for material certifications and supporting customer documentation.

– Connect certifications to actual production and quality records.
– Support heat-specific and lot-specific documentation.
– Reduce manual certificate preparation.
– Improve auditability and customer confidence.

Maintain complete material genealogy across receiving, inventory movements, production, reclaim, processing, quality inspections, and shipments, ensuring every material movement remains connected to its origin and destination.

Support purchasing, inventory, production, and sales processes where pounds, kilograms, tons, pieces, lengths, or other measurement units are used simultaneously within the same operation.

Support operations that combine melt and batch manufacturing with discrete processes such as cutting, machining, assembly, finishing, outside processing, and packaging while maintaining a unified inventory, quality, traceability, and costing structure.