ERP Software for Steel Tube & Pipe Manufacturers
Metraforge is ERP software for steel tube and pipe manufacturers. Sales, inventory, manufacturing, purchase and dispatch in one place — with twenty-six built-in reports, role-based access, a mobile app, and Tally export so your accounts team keeps working the way it already does.
Why Metraforge
Most plants run on a mix of accounting software, spreadsheets and paper. Each is fine on its own; the cost sits in the gaps between them.
An order is typed into one place, production into another and the invoice into a third. Metraforge carries a sales order through production, dispatch and invoicing as one record, so it is entered once.
Stock, pending orders and production status drift into parallel spreadsheets that nobody fully trusts by month-end. One system holding all of it means the numbers on screen are the numbers.
Every batch records a parent, so material that is split or cut stays linked to its source, and a traceability report follows the chain in either direction.
Twenty-six reports ship built in — stock valuation, ageing, scrap analysis, WIP, ledgers, GST summary — so the monthly pack is a page load rather than a project.
Permissions are set per role and users can be scoped to their own sites, so the dispatch team sees dispatch and not your margins. Changes land in an audit log.
A dispatch exports as a Tally-ready sales voucher XML. Your books stay in Tally and your CA keeps working the way they already do, without anyone keying the same invoice twice.
Modules
Modules share one set of records, so an order flows into production, out through dispatch and into an invoice without being re-entered at any step.
Customers with credit limits and interaction history, quotations with PDF output, sales orders, stock reserved against confirmed orders, and sales returns.
Stock by product and location across multiple sites, batch tracking with configurable attributes, stock transfers, adjustments, full movement history and reorder levels.
Work orders with staged execution, bills of material, reusable process templates carrying per-stage parameters and QC checks, material issue and return, scrap capture and machine downtime.
Suppliers, purchase orders, and goods receipt notes linked back to the orders they fulfil, including receipt against more than one purchase order.
Dispatch orders with delivery challan PDFs, vehicle and transporter details, weighbridge reconciliation against the loaded quantity, and e-way bill numbers printed on the challan.
GST invoices with HSN codes and place of supply, PDF generation, payments recorded and allocated against invoices, and document numbering that follows your financial year.
Twenty-six reports across sales, purchase, stock, production and receivables — registers, valuations, ageing, traceability, scrap analysis and ledgers, run against live data.
Role-based access control with configurable permissions, location-scoped users, an audit log, file attachments, and a guided onboarding wizard with industry templates.
Reporting
Reporting is usually where an ERP quietly turns into a second project. These ship with the product and run against live data.
Platform
Your data is kept entirely separate from every other customer — not pooled into one shared system. Your costs, customers and order book stay yours alone.
Permissions are configured per role, and users can be scoped to the sites they actually work at, so people see the part of the business that concerns them.
Changes are recorded with who made them and when, so a disputed number has a history you can read rather than an argument you have to settle.
A web application for the office and a native mobile app for the shop floor and dispatch, both working against the same records.
A step-by-step setup wizard with industry configuration templates — document numbering, units, categories, HSN suggestions and custom fields preset rather than built from scratch.
Custom fields on products, batch attributes you define, your own work order statuses, and document numbering that follows your financial-year format.
Comparison
| Capability | Typical alternative | Metraforge |
|---|---|---|
| Built for manufacturing | Trading or accounting first, production bolted on | Work orders, BOMs and QC stages are core |
| Batch tracking with your own fields | One fixed batch field, or none | Attributes you define, per product |
| Material lineage | Not modelled | Parent-child batches with a traceability report |
| Reporting | Build your own, or buy a BI add-on | 26 reports included |
| Shop-floor access | Desktop only | Web plus a native mobile app |
| Access control | Broad user roles | Per-role permissions and location scoping |
| Data isolation | Your data pooled with everyone else’s | Your data kept entirely on its own |
| Working with Tally | Manual re-entry | Tally-ready voucher XML export |
FAQ
Metraforge is ERP software for manufacturers, used by steel tube and pipe makers. It covers sales, inventory, manufacturing, purchase and dispatch in one system, with built-in reporting, role-based access and a mobile app. Your data is kept entirely separate from other customers.
Yes, through export. Any dispatch can be exported as a Tally-ready sales voucher XML and imported into your Tally company, so the same invoice does not get typed twice. You map your Tally ledger, stock item and godown names once in settings. Your books stay in Tally, and your accountant and CA carry on exactly as they do today.
Metraforge raises GST invoices with HSN codes, GST rates and place of supply, and includes an HSN-wise GST summary report. E-way bill numbers are recorded against a dispatch and printed on the delivery challan. IRP e-invoicing — pushing an invoice for an IRN and signed QR code — is not currently supported.
Yes. Any product can be flagged for batch tracking, and each batch carries the attributes that matter to your process — you define the fields, so width, thickness, grade or heat number are configurable rather than fixed. Every batch records a parent, so material that is split or cut stays linked to what it came from, and a batch traceability report follows that chain in either direction.
Twenty-six reports ship with the product, covering sales and purchase registers, stock summary, valuation, ageing and movements, WIP valuation, scrap analysis, production and work order summaries, batch traceability and register, customer and supplier ledgers, receivables and payables ageing, cash flow, GST summary, and salesperson and supplier performance.
Yes. Metraforge ships a native mobile app alongside the web application, so shop-floor and dispatch staff can work from a phone or tablet instead of a desk.
Yes. Metraforge uses role-based access control with permissions you configure per role, and users can additionally be scoped to specific locations. Changes are recorded in an audit log.
Yes. Premises represent physical sites, each holding one or more warehouse locations. Stock is tracked per location, transfers between locations are recorded, and users can be restricted to the sites they work at.
Your data is kept completely separate from every other customer. Nothing of yours is stored alongside another business, so there is no chance of your costs, customers or order book being visible to anyone outside your company.
It depends on how many sites you run, how clean your existing masters and opening stock are, and whether you are moving off another system. Metraforge includes a guided onboarding wizard and industry configuration templates to shorten setup. We scope timelines against your actual operation during the demo rather than quoting a standard number.
Book a demo
A working session, not a slide deck. Tell us how your plant runs today and we will walk through Metraforge against it — including where it would not fit.
We reply to every enquiry from a manufacturer. No newsletter, no drip sequence.