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Raw Material Price Volatility & Supply Disruption Mitigation in Steel Fabrication
A heavy industrial equipment manufacturer consuming over 100,000 tons of structural steel plate and alloy tubing annually across four fabrication facilities.
Runs onPurti- gross margin preserved across steel-intensive customer contracts
- $1.8Mgross margin preserved across steel-intensive customer contracts
How the work runs
The pressure that made this worth automating, the steps the system runs, and what came out the other side.
Pressure & Trigger Points
- Sudden trade tariff announcements and raw material refinery outages triggered a 30% spike in steel spot prices and 6-week delivery delays.
- Procurement teams awarded purchase orders based on legacy static lead times, causing unexpected raw material shortages.
- Fixed-price customer equipment contracts suffered severe gross margin erosion due to unbudgeted material price spikes.
The run · 5 operational steps
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Commodity & Supply Risk Intelligence
Purti monitors global steel mill capacity, trade policy updates, scrap metal spot prices, and energy cost signals.
Input Signal:
Real-time operational telemetry & queue
Reasoning Pattern:
MCP grounded vector inference
Governance Gate:
Policy constrained with audit write-back
Verified Business Outcomes
- $1.8M in gross margin preserved across steel-intensive customer contracts.
- Avoided a 6-week factory shutdown by re-allocating raw material inventory between internal plants.
- Procurement team gained a 14-day jump on competitor buying before spot price surges took effect.
Capabilities this relies on
- forecasting
- system connectors
- scenario simulation
- alert routing
- risk scoring
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