Willbanks Metals Implements STRATIX Metal Industry ERP Software from Invera

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Willbanks Metals, one of the largest service centers in the Southwest United States specializing in heavy carbon products, has implemented the STRATIX metal service center software from Invera, a metal industry software specialist.

Benefits
Willbanks Metals implemented a full complement of STRATIX features such as Inventory management, purchasing, sales, on-line production planning, plate and sheet processing functions, shop-floor production recording and on-line shipment planning.

The inventory management features are especially beneficial to Willbanks. Inventory visibility throughout all warehouses and the inventory control features have been instrumental in not only inventory management, but purchasing forecasts.

Eric Letz, CEO, comments, "STRATIX has helped us track and control inventory more accurately than ever before. The detailed records of the cycle counts not only give us confidence, but make the auditors happy as well!"

For Production, the production planning and scheduling functions allow the production staff to plan multiple items together for more effective usage of their inventory. The scheduling functionality gives the production staff an accurate view of their machine's workloads and the ability to distribute the production workload to all machines in a fast and seamless manner.

With STRATIX, machine operators now have terminals on the shop-floor to record processing in real-time as work is completed.

Diego Balderas, Vice President of Production comments, "The production features in STRATIX give us the proper tools to manage and communicate changes to our production lines quickly through the software. Our operations department is more efficient than it's ever been."

Implementation
The implementation of the metals ERP software solution STRATIX included sales, purchasing, receiving, inventory management, multi-step production, production scheduling, delivery and logistics planning, non-conformance reporting, invoicing and financials.

About Willbanks Metals
Willbanks Metals (WMI) is recognized as one of the most diverse general line steel service centers in the Southwest United States. For over 38 years, WMI has provided an array of products including cut to length sheet & plate steel, discrete plate steel, and structure long products such as angle, beam, channel, pipe, tubing, flat bar and rebar. WMI has the ability to add value to all of their products and are a one-stop shop for the consumer of steel products and fabrication services.

About Invera
Invera has been providing steel and metal service center software (ERP) and business analytics dashboards for over 30 years. Invera is the largest software company dedicated exclusively to the steel and metal service center, metal distribution, and metal processing industry. Their metal industry software products STRATIX and eSTELPLAN are used by more than 13,000 users at over 600 sites in the United States, Europe, Mexico, Canada, Dubai, South Africa and the Far East in over 14 countries.

For more information, contact Invera at (514)-925-8558 or visit http://www.invera.com.

SOURCE Invera