With the Reserve stock and connect it for traceability change, we made it so you can pick the items you need to fulfill an order from what you have available. This is great if you hold stock or you want to use as many offcuts etc as possible to fulfil an order before you put out a request for quotes to suppliers, helping you keep your costs down and your material utilisation high.

We've improved the interface and you can now release your hold on stock so if someone changes their mind or you get more information on specifications and need to tweak things, you can do so easily.

Recently, we introduced Smarter inventory enabling you to create tags and supporting rules to enable inventory to be clearly identifiable for certain properties. We first implemented it with manual triggering of rules evaluation to test the solution out in the wild, but of course, it's not smart enough for our liking!

Now the whenever an inventory item changes or a rule changes, the tag rules are automatically applied meaning if you delete a rule, tags are removed, if you update an item you get the latest applicable tags.

Next up in this process of enhancing smarter management is rolling out this tag engine to orders, and mill certificates, as well as enabling you to build rules that span across connected items (like having order line items tags that flag when reserved stock has moved to a specific location).

You always need to know what stock you have and make sure nobody uses key items needed for an order. This way you never have to go to a rack to get some bars off a bundle and find the whole bundle has been used.

When you plan your orders, you can reserve stock from one or more available in-stock groups. With contextual search to help you find what you need quickly based on order line item specifications you can hone in the stock that will meet your needs. You can then reserve the stock. This splits it from the original entry for the stock and marks it as reserved. This brings along all the key properties including it's traceability info. so in a 2 for 1 special, you don't just get to have the stock ready and waiting for you but you are able to get it's material test reports for audit purposes just as easily.

We think most things can be a table (putting our engineering hat on there for UX) but tables can be a bit pants on mobile.

We've taken the wide view which optimised for a laptop or tablet and made it responsive so that more of the columns move into the expandable sections when you're on the move. Enjoy!

We started out with modals (views in the middle of the screen) for doing things like creating or editing records. The challenge was when things got complex / detailed like describing orders or rules for inventory. We've now moved over to side bars or "blades" that appear on the right-hand side to give you more room and lower risk when working with your data. Data entry still sucks but this will make it suck a little less.

You don't sit behind a desk all day, so why should your software? We’re rolling out the GoSmarter Progressive Web App (PWA) because dragging a laptop across a warehouse floor is a joke.

This update puts our platform right in your pocket, giving your production, QC, logistics, and warehousing teams the speed and reliability they need right where the action is. We don't just "optimize workflows" - we take a sledgehammer to the bottlenecks that are killing your margins.

Just log in and go, and get back to the work that actually pays the bills.

Especially when you're starting out with using a new system, you need a tutorial. Once you're used to it, you want the help text etc to get the heck out of your way and let you focus on the task at hand.

With this in mind, we've now added Tutorial Mode to the application. This provides top-level and field-level help text so you can get familiar with each screen and piece of information in the application.

Tutorial mode will be on by default but can be easily turned off by pressing an X on a screen summary or by using the toggle in your user area. When it's gone, the tool tips and summary cards will disappear and give you a clean, uninterrupted view.

We hope that Tutorial Mode alongside the in-app help guides (also available at guides.gosmarter.ai) and documentation will help you be productive. If you have any issues, however, you can always reach out to us at support@gosmarter.ai

Today we've launched the first part of our smarter inventory capability.

You can make a set of tags to use in your business e.g. like low stock, heat code missing, sold out.

With these tags, you can then make rules that can be used to apply the tags to inventory. This is based off inventory properties and complex logic can be implemented.

These rules can then be applied to inventory. In coming weeks this will happen automatically but wanted this out in the world for people to test and get benefit from now.

You can use the rules to apply relevant tags and then use the tags in filters to be able to narrow down inventory to the right stock more quickly. Use it to find out what's low in stock or needs replenishing.

What's next for this feature is automation to apply rules whenever inventory, rules, or tags change but to also expose material test result / mill certificate data linked to inventory so being able to tag stock for things like specific weld procedures is supported.

If this feature is of interest to you. Get in touch to learn more at steph@gosmarter.ai

Another free tool we've made recently is the Metal Weight Calculator.

This tool takes broad standard weights for certain metals and allows you pick the shape and it's associated dimensions to get an approximate weight per unit.

Use this to help calculate how much stock will be used, how much weight will contribute to a delivery, how much to charge and more.

It can be tough when you're working with companies outside your country due to different standards in place for steel. We wanted to help make it simpler with this free tool to help convert between some common standards.

Select the source system and grade, along with the system you need the steel in to see what the closest applicable equivalents are and see the details relating to it. Whilst not a replacement to a dedicated metallurgist especially for niche grades, this can help you move more quickly.