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ERP solution for pipe and tube companies

Our materials enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can help your pipe and tube business.

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Customers depend on you for quality and accuracy

Delivering specific customer requirements on time depends on a solution designed for pipe and tube companies.

Every day, businesses and communities depend on pipe and tube companies. From supporting important construction projects to transporting liquids, manufacturing tools, and running electrical wire, what you do is critical.

That’s why we created Crowe Materials Accelerator: a tailored, end-to-end ERP solution built on the Microsoft Dynamics 365™ platform for pipe and tube companies.

Now you can streamline processes throughout your manufacturing life cycle to deliver quality and excellence.

SUCCESS STORY

Crowe helped a global pipe and tube company delight its customers with quality and accuracy

As a company producing welded and drawn-over mandrel carbon steel tubing, this global company needed to increase market share and strengthen existing customer relationships.

To do this, it needed a metals-specific ERP system to help provide high-quality material and meet customers’ unique requirements, all at a low cost and on time.

Learn more about Crowe Materials Accelerator

You need more than a standard ERP system

For things like custom order entry, coil slitting, tube welding, secondary processing, or quality testing, we have a materials ERP solution for you.

Simplify tricky coil slitting processes

Optimize coil slitting by maximizing your material use and automation and removing frustrating and complex manual calculations.

Enhance material inventory and customer billing

Manage multiple units of measurement for optimal inventory tracking and customer billing by accurate weight of each tube.

Deliver heat traceability with confidence

Automate and track heat properties throughout the entire production process and generate a certificate of analysis for customers.

We built an ERP solution for pipe and tube companies

Our decades of experience in the metals industry have enabled us to craft an ERP solution built specifically for pipe and tube companies.

Customer order entry

Enter customer orders using a make-to-order wizard that allows product attribute lookups, like shape, inside diameter (ID), grade, outside diameter (OD), wall thickness, mechanicals, and traditional part number entry.

Parent-child material traceability

Maintain accurate heat traceability throughout the supply chain process. Provide accurate reporting of information to your customers based on industry and their specifications.

Specifications management

Track internal, industry, and customer-defined specifications throughout the production process, such as ID, OD, gauge, wall thickness, length, and max bundle weights.

Scheduling optimization and sequencing

Schedule across your entire plant using an intuitive tool for efficient production. Empower users to view and sequence schedules by machine, with the flexibility to update and adjust as needed.

Flexible unit reporting

Provide inventory, reporting production, and billing of your customers in convertible units of measure to support inventory in pieces and bill your customers by actual weight.

Pricing management

Drive customer and vendor pricing by product attributes such as form, shape, ID, OD, and length to help streamline order entry processes and simplify pricing updates.