September 29, 2017 - 4GL Solutions announced today the signing of license agreements with the Southern Steel Group headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Commenting on the agreement, George Walton, President of 4GL Solutions, said, “We are very pleased the Southern Steel Group has selected our industry leading ERP software solution Steel Manager III. The Southern Steel Group (SSG) is the largest privately-owned steel distributor in Australia with 17 subsidiaries across all of Australia. With 35 locations providing long products and sheet & coil and multiple value-added processing services, SSG required metal specific software that had the functionality and flexibility to handle their vast array of products and services while still being extremely user friendly. After an extensive review of ERP systems, the Southern Steel Group concluded that Steel Manager III (SM3) was the perfect fit for their company.”

Kevin Smaller, Group General Manager of Southern Steel had this to say, “We knew replacing our in-house legacy system developed over 40 years, was not going to be easy. We searched the globe looking for a provider who understood steel and all of the idiosyncrasies of; rolling tolerances, traceability and multiple units of measure, which could take that complexity and make selling simple and fast. We believe we have partnered with that company.”

In addition to Steel Manager III (SM3) the Southern Steel Group has chosen 4GL’s MTR Automation Module, making the retrieval and electronic delivery of Material Test Reports effortless, SM3’s Bar Coding Module which greatly facilitates inventory management, and our Linear Nesting module which serves to minimize waste and maximize the yield on cutting long products.