February 23, 2021 - 4GL Solutions, Stouffville, Ontario, announced that Specialty Metals in Kent, Washington, has gone live on Steel Manager III, a completely integrated ERP software designed exclusively for the metals industry.

Specialty Metals is a full line metal service center serving the community for nearly 40 years. They carry an extensive inventory of a variety of products including stainless steel, aluminum, carbon and alloys in a wide variety of shapes including plate, sheet, bar, angle, pipe, round tube, square tube, hex bar, flat bar, fittings, channel, diamond plate, along with hard-to-find products such as Weathering steel, Brass, Nickel, Plastics, Titanium, Building products, Valves and fittings, Copper metal roofing and Expanded metal and grating.

Multiple in-house value-added services include water jet cutting, laser cutting, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting, metal forming, metal shearing, Amada plate saw, fabrication, rolling, and pipe bending, drilling and tapping.

Specialty Metals also implemented Steel Manager III’s integrated barcoding module, Material Test Report module, Linear Nesting program, SigmaNEST plate nesting integration module, and 4GL’s Customer Portal module.

Jim Stice Jr., President of Specialty Metals commented, “Specialty Metals spent four years looking for a new ERP system before coming to the conclusion that Steel Manager III was a great fit for Specialty Metals Corp. With 40 years of providing metal distribution and value-added services to our customers we took our time to find the ERP system that would best fit our needs. The real time inventory tracking, powerful pricing matrix & 4GL’s willingness to be flexible in meeting our needs continues to prove to us that we made the perfect decision in our partnership. They provide amazing support, customer service, and their SM3 software is well thought out, and makes selling metal enjoyable with all Information at your fingertips, in a very professional manner.”