Industries · Metals, wire and cables
Metals, wire and cables
- What will be running
- Raw material route agent, costing and yield agent, AP/AR agent with overdue interest, continuous AI audit agent
- By when
- First agent live in 30 days; all four in 120
- What it saves
- Target: 1% of raw material spend recovered from transit loss and theft, agreed in writing
Works with what you already have
What runs on Excel today
The company is the only Indian maker of a specialised aluminium and copper transmission conductor. Turnover is about ₹1,000 Cr. Everything runs on Excel.
Metal arrives by truck from the smelter or the mine-side depot. Between the depot weighbridge and the plant weighbridge there is a road, a driver and an unexplained gap of 200 to 600 kg a trip. At ₹250 a kg for aluminium, each bad trip costs a salary.
Costing is done after the fact. The costing sheet divides the month's metal purchases by output and gives one average cost. Nobody knows the margin on a specific order. Quotes are priced on last quarter's average.
Receivables are chased from an Excel ageing list. Overdue interest is in every contract and rarely billed, because nobody has computed it. Payables are paid when the supplier calls. Bank transfers are typed by hand into the portal.
The internal audit is a quarterly visit. The exceptions it finds are three months old.
What we deploy
Agents, not features. Each one is listed when it is live.
Raw material route agent
Watches every inbound metal truck from depot weighbridge to plant gate: GPS on the vehicle, timestamped weighbridge photos at both ends, a sealed-lock check. Computes the weight differential per trip and per driver. Any trip over tolerance lands on your phone before the truck is unloaded.
Costing and yield agent
Follows each heat and each drawing run from metal intake to finished conductor on the reel. Computes yield, scrap and true cost per SKU and per order, daily, from the production log and the store issue slip. By 9 am you see yesterday's margin by order, with the three worst runs named.
AP/AR agent
Reads every invoice and receipt into the ageing. Computes contractual overdue interest per customer and drafts the debit note. Prepares the payables run for your approval and pushes approved payments to the bank by file upload or API. Weekly list of overdue, interest due and payments awaiting sign-off.
Continuous AI audit agent
Runs the internal audit checklist nightly instead of quarterly: duplicate invoices, rate changes without approval, scrap sold below the LME-linked floor, store issues without a production order. Monthly exception report in your auditor's format.
What it saves
On a ₹1,000 Cr wire plant, metal is 70 to 80% of cost. Small percentages are large rupees.
Metal loss in transit. If the unexplained gap averages 0.3% of inbound weight, that is roughly ₹2 Cr a year at current prices. Target: 1% of raw material spend recovered, agreed in writing against your own last-12-month figures.
Margin by order. Plants that price on average cost usually find 10 to 15% of orders sold below true cost once the agent runs. Target: those orders repriced or declined in the next quarter.
Overdue interest. Interest in the contract and never billed is pure recovery. Target: debit notes issued on every account over 60 days, from month two.
Audit. An exception found tonight costs less than one found next quarter. Target: no open exception older than 7 days.
Before we build, we agree one of these savings in writing with a number against it. If it is not met in 90 days, AgentJi keeps working at no charge for up to 90 more days until it is. The guarantee covers the first agent.
The guarantee
In writing, before we build.
One number for the first agent, how it is measured, and the date. Not met in 90 days from go-live, we keep working at no charge for up to 90 more days until it is.
How the first 30 days go
We visit the plant and the depot weighbridge. We sit with the gate clerk, store keeper, costing accountant and receivables clerk. We take the Excel files and weighbridge slips as they are.
Raw material route agent built: GPS on the first ten trucks, weighbridge photos at both ends, tolerance agreed with you.
Route agent live. First exception on your phone. Costing agent built from the production log, alongside the monthly costing sheet.
Weekly brief starts. Costing agent live on one conductor family. AP/AR agent scoped with your bank.
Questions promoters ask
How does raw material tracking software stop theft between the mine and the factory?
By weighing both ends and watching the road between. Each truck is weighed and photographed at the depot and at your gate, with GPS and a sealed lock in between. The agent computes the difference per trip and per driver and tells you before the truck is unloaded. Theft stops when the driver knows the gap will be seen the same day.
Can costing software for manufacturing give margin per order, not just per month?
Yes, if the production log and store issues are captured per run, which is what the first two weeks are for. After that the costing agent computes yield, scrap and true cost per SKU and per order daily. You see margin by order on your phone at 9 am.
We run entirely on Excel. Do we need a full manufacturing ERP in India first?
No. The agents are built on the Excel and logbooks you already have, and they are live before any ERP decision. The ERP comes when the agents have shown which data matters. Most plants need less ERP than the vendor quoted.
Will the AP/AR agent make payments on its own?
No. It prepares the payables run and the interest debit notes for you or your CFO to approve. Only approved payments go to the bank, through the bank's own file upload or API. Every payment carries the approver's name.
Tell us where the money leaks.
Tell us where the money leaks. A 30-minute call: we ask about the business, you ask about us. If AgentJi is not the right answer we will say so and tell you who is.