Metals

Explain profit through every tonne, process route and grade.

Optifi connects material blend, recovery, energy, asset time, conversion and logistics to show the fully absorbed economics of each product and customer commitment.

Management signalProcess and grade cost per tonne
01The management question
What distorts margin

Which material, recovery and route choices are determining realised profit?

Metals businesses carry volatility through a chain of furnaces, mills, finishing operations and distribution. Raw-material movement, recovery, energy, alloy mix, co-products and route constraints can alter margin long before the final sales variance appears.

01Material blend, scrap and alloy
02Recovery, yield and co-products
03Energy, consumables and emissions cost
04Asset time, throughput and downtime
05Finishing, freight and customer specification
Connected in OptifiTrue profitability
02What matters to leadership
The economics management must see

Focus the model on the decisions that determine profit.

01

Material and recovery

What matters

Purchase price is only the starting point. Blend, chemistry, melt loss, scrap generation and saleable recovery determine actual cost per tonne.

How Optifi helps

Optifi follows material through each conversion stage and separates price, usage, mix and recovery effects on grade cost.

02

Energy and conversion

What matters

Power, gas, electrodes, refractories and process consumables move with operating conditions, routes and equipment performance.

How Optifi helps

Optifi calculates process-specific unit rates and allocates utilities and conversion resources to the grades and tonnes that consumed them.

03

Asset and route economics

What matters

Bottlenecks, downtime and alternate routings change throughput and the fixed cost absorbed by each product.

How Optifi helps

Optifi models work-centre capacity, machine time and route alternatives to explain under-recovery and test production scenarios.

04

Grade and customer profit

What matters

Specifications, small runs, finishing, testing, freight and contract terms can turn similar tonnes into very different margins.

How Optifi helps

Optifi extends cost through finishing and service to show net profit by grade, order, contract and customer.

03Automated profitability process
One governed model

Build the profit bridge from input material to sold tonne.

Stratic configures Optifi to automate production, quality, energy, maintenance, procurement and finance data. Cost is accumulated through each process stage, with direct, conversion and shared cost traced to tonnes, grades, products and customers.

01Extract

ERP + operational systems

02Reconcile

Finance + operational controls

03Allocate

Direct + indirect cost

04Report

Dashboards + review packs

05Act

Decisions + accountability

04Reporting rhythm
Insight without the reporting delay

Management reporting at the cadence your business requires.

Give plant, procurement, commercial and finance teams one view of tonnes, recovery, unit rates and realised margin.

DailyEmerging varianceOperating exceptions while action is still possible.
WeeklyPerformance trendAccountability, movement and corrective action.
MonthlyProfitability reviewReconciled cost, allocation and profit performance.
Close + 1 dayManagement packAvailable one day after month-end close.
05Where management acts
Decision-ready profitability

Make cost per tonne operationally explainable and commercially useful.

Connect material price, recovery, energy, throughput, route, mix and freight directly to profit.

01
Process and grade cost per tonneTraceable to approved data, drivers and allocation rules.
02
Plant, product and customer profitabilityTraceable to approved data, drivers and allocation rules.
03
Recovery and energy accountabilityTraceable to approved data, drivers and allocation rules.
04
Explainable price-volume-mix varianceTraceable to approved data, drivers and allocation rules.
06Where to start
Begin with one material question

Start with one process route, mill or grade family.

Discuss your use case
01Production and recovery review
02Grade and route costing
03Energy and maintenance performance
04Contract and customer profitability
Metals

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