Your buying desk, on shift 24/7 — without hiring a third shift.
Forgelane’s agents continuously scan vendor pricing across copper, cold-rolled steel, aluminum and galvanized wire rod; reconcile on-hand and WIP against your production schedule; and issue, negotiate, and chase purchase orders while your plant is dark — flagging tariff shifts, mill outages, and freight spikes before they stall the drawbench.
The gap we close
Fortune 500 sourcing, priced for the two-person desk.
Pactum, Keelvar and GEP sell autonomous procurement to procurement teams with 200-plus headcount. The 40-300 person wire and metal stamping operation has the same exposure to copper moves, mill outages, tariff news, and freight spikes — but a buyer who also has to drive the forklift on a slow week. Forgelane gives that buyer an always-on agent that watches price, inventory, and risk so they can spend their day on supplier relationships instead of chase-downs.
Watch
Continuous price scan
Sweeps our curated list of 90+ mill, distributor and warehouse sources every 15 minutes across copper, CRS, aluminum, galvanized rod, stainless and brass. No more late-afternoon quote calls.
Reconcile
Inventory & schedule aware
Joins to your ERP feed, on-hand counts, open WIP, and the next four weeks of production — so each PO proposal lands against a real reorder point, not a guess.
Act
Cold-trafficking POs
Drafts, negotiates within your band, and issues purchase orders via your existing email workflows. Follows up at 24h, 72h and on the ack-of-ack.
Warn
Early signal on disruption
Tracks LME moves, mill outage reports, lane-level freight, and Section-232 / AD-CVD rulings so margin compression surfaces in Slack before it surfaces in the P&L.
How it works
Plug into what you already run.
No rip-and-replace. Forgelane sits on top of your ERP and email like a senior buyer who never sleeps — using the same tools your team uses today.
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Connect:
We read your inventory state and bills-of-material out of QuickBooks, E2, Global Shop, or your existing CSV feed. Vendor price lists arrive over email or a shared folder — same as today.
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Tune:
Set your reorder-point rules, preferred-supplier band, and the negotiation envelope Forgelane is allowed to walk within. Review with a 30-minute call, written down in plain English.
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Run:
Forgelane scans sources every 15 minutes, drafts POs, negotiates inside your envelope, sends release emails, and tracks every acknowledgment. You get a Slack ping only when something needs you.
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Audit:
Every agent action lands in a plain-English log you can export to your controller. Same SOX-style audit story as your ERP — no black-box auto-buying.
Materials we cover
Direct raw inputs for wire and metal stamping.
We focus on the direct metals that hit your cost-of-goods in a given week — the ones where a 3% move nudges your selling price, not the ones you can tolerate a slow renewal on.
Cathode, rod, mill-product wire, ETP, OF.
CRS, HRPO, HRC, galvanized, galvannealed.
6061, 5052, 1100 series — sheet, billet, rod.
Galvanized, bright, low-carbon, high-carbon.
304, 316, 430 — sheet, coil, bar stock.
C260, C360, C932 — rod, bar, tube.
A 40 to 300-person US wire or metal stamper buying direct metals.
- Two to six buyers, none of them full-time price-watchers.
- ERP is QuickBooks, E2, Global Shop, JobBOSS or similar.
- Copper, CRS, aluminum, galvanized rod, stainless or brass posture material expenditure.
- You already use email and a vendor portal — no procurement marketplace to train your suppliers on.
An IT-services company selling SaaS dollars.
- No physical direct-metals supply chain.
- Buying office supplies, MRO, or SaaS seats — the CPO market has cheaper answers for that already.
- A Fortune 500 with an in-house procurement platform team — you’ve already got the build budget.
Frequently asked
The questions a working purchasing manager actually asks.
Open the Desk and watch today's alerts.
Open the buyer's desk to see open price moves, reorder-point breaches, and PO drafts ready for review. Forgelane's agents work behind the scenes; the desk is what your buyer sees in the morning.
What lives in the Desk
- As-of timestamps on every price and quantity
- Alerts inbox — ack or deep-link to a draft PO
- Plain-English audit log exportable to your controller
Send us a real PO and an actual production schedule.
We’ll show you a side-by-side of what your buyer built last week and what Forgelane would have proposed — same suppliers, no spin. One short email is enough to start.
Reach the team
forgelane-2@polsia.app
A working purchaser usually hears back inside four hours, Monday through Friday.