Steel, Run as One System

Executive Summary

Steel is a business of weight, yield and volatility: raw material bought by the tonne, converted through processes where every percentage point of yield is margin, and sold into a dealer channel whose prices move with the market.

With TEKROI as implementation partner, Hulas Steel runs that chain on SAP Business One — raw material through production to finished steel products, weight-based inventory that reconciles, dealer sales under credit discipline, and finance reading it all live.

About Hulas Steel

Hulas Steel is a Nepal-based steel products manufacturer and trader serving the construction and fabrication market through a dealer network.

The Challenge: Steel Manufacturing Operations in Nepal

Steel operations punish imprecision — in weight, yield and credit:

• Yield in the dark — conversion losses and scrap between input tonnage and finished product were known only through periodic reconciliation.
• Weight-based inventory drift — stock tracked in units and tonnes across yard, plant and depots rarely agreed with itself.
• Price volatility — input and market prices moved faster than costing and pricing processes could follow.
• Dealer credit exposure — channel sales ran ahead of the receivables picture.
• Plant-to-finance lag — production, dispatch and books met only at month-end.

The Solution: SAP Business One for Steel Manufacturing

TEKROI implemented SAP Business One across Hulas Steel’s plant-to-market chain:

Production & Yield

• Production orders tracking input consumption to output declaration — yield and scrap visible per run, not per quarter.

Weight-Based Inventory

• Tonnage-true stock across yard, plant and depots, reconciling units and weight in one inventory.

Dealer Sales & Credit

• Dealer-wise pricing and credit limits enforced at order entry across the channel.

Finance

• Costing that follows input prices, and books consolidated on live data.

Implementation Journey

TEKROI’s fixed-scope methodology took the project from assessment to go-live through eight stages: assessment, blueprint, configuration, customization, data migration, training, go-live and ongoing support.

Results

• Yield you can manage — conversion and scrap are production facts in the system, surfaced while they can still be acted on.
• Inventory that agrees with the weighbridge — one weight-true stock position across locations.
• Pricing on current cost — volatile inputs flow into costing instead of eroding margins silently.
• Credit enforced, not discovered — dealer exposure is a gate at order entry.
• One live picture — plant, dispatch, sales and finance on the same clock.

TEKAI on Live Steel Data

TEKAI, TEKROI’s AI layer for SAP Business One, sits on top of the same live data this implementation created — so steel leadership can ask in plain language and get answers computed from the system of record:

• “Which production runs show yield variance beyond tolerance this month?”
• “Which stock positions disagree with the weighbridge?”
• “Which dealers are close to or over their credit limits?”
• “Where are margins eroding as input prices move?”

Why This Story Matters

Steel margins live in decimals — of yield, weight and price. Hulas Steel shows SAP Business One holding those decimals in a manufacturing-and-trading business, the reference for steel and metals companies across the region.

Hulas is also part of the depth of TEKROI’s in-country delivery in Nepal. Kathmandu businesses from Him Electronics and Maruti Cement to Jagdamba Motors and Hansraj Hulaschand run SAP Business One implemented by TEKROI — the same team and the same fixed-scope methodology, delivered on the ground in the same market.