From Legacy SAGE ERP to Future-Ready: How Allied Metals Transformed Operations with Odoo & Bista Solutions
About Allied Metals
As an innovative, future-focused industry leader, Allied Metals holds a strong position in the global marketplace. They specialize in high-purity, low-carbon steel and stainless-steel melt stock, maintaining extensive inventories to serve customers across North America, Europe, and the Far East. This enables them to provide worldwide, one-day shipments of materials prepared and packaged to exact customer specifications.
With over 60 years of industry experience, Allied Metals continues to uphold its reputation for exceptional quality, responsiveness, on-time delivery, consistency, accountability, and a deep inventory offering.
Key Challenges Faced by Allied Metals
Allied Metals had been using SAGE ERP for over 12 years, but as the business grew, the system could no longer keep up with their evolving needs. Customizing and maintaining SAGE became increasingly time-consuming, costly, and inefficient, making it difficult to support their expanding operations.
Allied Metals' Needs & Requirements
- Allied Metal required a powerful Quality Control process and advanced Accounting Reports with different expense sections.
- Allied Metal required a Credit Limit functionality with Sales and QC Process incorporated with Purchases management.
- Allied Metal required a manufacturing process with barcode label generation, separate accounting entries for WorkCentre cost at the end of Production and control for not having negative inventory valuation.
- Allied Metal required a link between MO & PO for Simplified production, facility for having variance in Vendor bills, sections for adding charges during invoice payment & user-friendly Bank reconciliation mechanism.
The Impact On Business After Project Implementation
Following the ERP implementation by Bista Solutions, Allied Metals transitioned to a stable and user-friendly system that seamlessly supports their daily operations. Teams across departments—including Products, Sales Orders, Purchases, Consignment Orders, Shipping, Invoicing, and Payments—now benefit from a well-organized and efficient ERP environment. Users have found the new system significantly easier to navigate, resulting in higher adoption, smoother workflows, and ongoing feedback that continues to enhance the platform to better meet their evolving needs.
What Frank (CFO at Allied Metals) Had to Say:
“Bista has been really excellent to design and deploy our requirements to meet our needs. I can see a very good enhancement in ERP in terms of development, quality and easy to use for our users. We have been live since a month and In past 3 months, contribution and work from Bista Team has been really impressive to make go-live smoother and bug-free.”
Can Bista Do It For You?
Absolutely. Bista Solutions provides wide range of business applications and solutions to companies across various industries. For all inquiries or assistance, email us at sales@bistasolutions.com