Steel service center: quote to cash, with a chemistry gate
- A steel order desk end to end: intake, quoting, allocation off the floor, shipping, invoicing and reconciliation, across four systems.
- A mill test report whose own printed chemistry cannot make the grade it claims. A deterministic gate re-runs the arithmetic against the published ASTM window and blocks the certificate with the element named.
- Latest run 2026-08-05: 35 orders, 19 shipped, 12 escalated to a person, 4 certificates blocked, 1 short pay caught, 0 failed. $1.75 for the run, about five cents an order. Six recorded runs in all, misses published.
- Three of the 35 orders replay on the page, chosen to end on a blocked certificate rather than on three successes.
- 35 orders per run
- 6 recorded runs
- 4 certs blocked
- $0.05 an order
Checking certs by hand today? The guide to reading a mill test report covers the anatomy, the tells and the limits this gate enforces.