How does QT9 MRP benefit metals and mining manufacturers?

QT9 MRP centralizes production, inventory, and supplier management, helping companies reduce waste, improve delivery performance, accurately plan production, and gain real-time visibility across multi-site operations.

Does QT9 MRP support multi-location manufacturing?

Yes. QT9 MRP enables metals and mining manufacturers to manage inventory, production, and resources across multiple sites—including mines, mills, and warehouses—from one centralized system.

Is QT9 MRP available in the cloud or on-premise?

QT9 MRP is available in both cloud-based and on-premise formats. Choose Web Subscription for cloud access or Web Purchase for on-premise installation to suit your operational needs.

What type of training and support is included?

QT9 provides unlimited training and support, 24/7 Help Center access, free software updates, and professional services to assist with implementation and ongoing optimization.

Why choose QT9 MRP as your total enterprise solution?

QT9 MRP includes 14+ modules, supports lot and serial tracking, material certification, and integrates with QT9 QMS. It delivers real-time analytics, scalable cloud/mobile access, and full customer support for metals and mining businesses of all sizes.

MRP Software for Metals and Mining

Q: What is MRP software for the metals and mining industry?

MRP software for the metals and mining industry supports raw material planning, production scheduling, inventory tracking, and supply chain management tailored to the needs of heavy industrial environments.

Q: Can QT9 MRP track heat numbers and lot numbers?

Yes. QT9 MRP includes built-in tools to track heat numbers, lot numbers, and material certifications from raw materials through finished goods for full traceability and compliance.

Real-Time Inventory

Automated Scheduling

Multi-Location Management

Production Planning

Volatile Demand

Fluctuations in commodity prices and customer demand require agile planning and real-time data access.

Fragmented Processes

Disparate systems make it difficult to monitor raw materials and finished goods across multiple locations.

Inventory Management

Vast inventory requires space optimization and variable material tracking and traceability.

Optimize metals and mining operations with QT9 MRP

Dynamic demand and supply planning: Adapt quickly to market shifts with accurate forecasting and production scheduling that balances supply with fluctuating demand.
Inventory and location tracking: Gain real-time visibility into all raw materials, WIP and finished goods across multiple sites, with precise location and attribute tracking.
Proactive maintenance scheduling: Optimize equipment uptime with integrated preventative and predictive maintenance capabilities, ensuring spare parts availability and reducing unplanned downtime.
End-to-end material traceability: Track every batch and lot from initial extraction or receipt through all processing stages to the final product, ensuring complete transparency and quality assurance.
Streamlined production workflows: Automate and optimize complex production processes, including smelting, casting, fabrication and refining, for increased efficiency and reduced waste.
Cost control and profitability analyses: Monitor material costs and production expenses, and analyze profitability at every stage to identify areas for optimization and improve your bottom line.

Multi-Level BOM

Accurately track components, alloys and subassemblies with nested bill of materials.

WIP Tracking

Monitor work-in-progress across job sites, warehouses and production floors.

Inventory Forecasting

Predict material needs based on historical trends and production schedules.

Machine Scheduling

Reduce downtime with integrated machine availability and maintenance tracking.

Lot & Heat No. Tracking

Ensure full material traceability from raw materials to finished goods.

Scrap/Waste Reporting

Capture and reduce material losses with waste tracking and reporting.

Production Dashboards

Gain real-time insights into operations, order status and bottlenecks.

Compliance Tools

Support environmental, health and safety compliance across all stages of production.

Multi-Site Support

Coordinate inventory and resources across mines, mills and warehouses.

Modules for any business size

With multiple modules to choose from, there's solutions for nearly anyone.

A solution that scales with you

Whether you are a large corporation or a small start-up you can use as many modules as you want.

Cross-Platform Support

Whether you use Android, iOS or Windows, QT9 works from virtually any web browser.

Cloud-based MRP for global access

QT9 MRP's cloud-based platform offers manufacturers flexibility, scalability and accessibility, transforming how you operate.

Accessibility and flexibility: Empower your teams, from the factory floor to remote sales, with real-time information, driving faster decision-making and improved responsiveness.
Reduced IT overhead: QT9's SaaS MRP for manufacturing handles all the infrastructure and technical complexities, allowing you to reallocate valuable resources to innovation and growth.
Enhanced scalability: Cloud MRP effortlessly scales up or down to meet changing demands, whether you're adding new product lines, expanding facilities or navigating seasonal fluctuations.
Data security & disaster recovery: QT9 leverages industry-leading security protocols, encryption and regular backups in secure data centers to protect your information from cyber threats and unforeseen disasters.

Faster deployment: Unlike lengthy on-premise implementations, cloud MRP can be deployed much faster, getting your team up and running and realizing the benefits of cloud MRP sooner.

Non-conformance and CAPA management

Nonconforming product records and corrective actions can be created in QT9 QMS right from event-driven actions in QT9 MRP. These include PO receiving, inspection and history, as well as from the Jobs/Manufacturing and customer sales and service areas. By giving users the ability to create non-conformance and CAPA records from the MRP, there is full data transfer and permanent linking to your QMS records in QT9 MRP, saving time and maintaining historical data about quality actions in your MRP.

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Supplier and vendor management

QT9 MRP maintains supplier records, while QT9 QMS tracks supplier quality performance and audits. Supplier-related nonconformances, engineering changes, audits and other quality processes in QT9 QMS sync with vendor records in QT9 MRP to ensure compliance.

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Document control and revision management

QT9 QMS document control links with QT9 MRP to ensure only approved, up-to-date documents (e.g., SOPs, work instructions) are accessible for production, engineering and quality teams.

QT9 QMS documents can be approved as part of QT9 MRP Bill of Materials and enable seamless passthrough to the Shop Floor Manager. This gives production-floor employees access to the latest approved work instructions and other controlled documents.

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Production & purchasing inspections

Work orders and production processes in QT9 MRP can create quality inspections in QT9 QMS, transferring the proper manufacturing data to the inspection record.

PO receiving can generate the proper QT9 QMS inspection record for your supplier and material-specific inspections.

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Customer complaints and returns (RMA process)

Customer returns in QT9 MRP have the ability to generate customer complaints and feedback records in QT9 QMS, creating a seamless customer service and quality experience.

Root cause analysis in QT9 QMS feeds into QT9 MRP adjustments for inventory, production and supplier performance.

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FAQ: MRP software for metals and mining

MRP (Material Requirements Planning) software for metals and mining helps companies manage raw material planning, production scheduling, inventory tracking, and supply chain operations. It’s designed to meet the complex demands of heavy industrial manufacturing environments.

QT9 MRP centralizes production, inventory, and supplier management into one system. It helps metals and mining companies reduce waste, improve on-time delivery, plan more accurately, and manage multi-site operations with real-time visibility.

Yes. QT9 MRP offers built-in traceability tools to track heat numbers, lot numbers, and material certifications from raw materials to finished goods—critical for compliance and quality assurance in metals processing.

Absolutely. QT9 MRP is built for multi-location operations, allowing metals and mining businesses to manage inventory, production, and resources across multiple mines, mills, and warehouses from a centralized platform.

Both! QT9 MRP offers both on-premise and cloud-based solutions. Customers can choose the platform that works best for them from three options:

Web Purchase: Our on-premise solution, where QT9 MRP is installed locally on the client’s web server.
Web Subscription: Cloud-based MRP subscription hosted on QT9’s servers and access via the internet and a web browser.

QT9 offers award-winning support services, including:

Unlimited training, from onboarding to refreshers
Unlimited support, including implementation and software optimization
QT9 MRP Help Center, self-service support available 24/7
Fully validated platform
Free software updates
Professional services for accounting and operations

QT9 MRP is a comprehensive system that can work for any size company, improving efficiency and accuracy through integrated data and automated operations.

QT9 MRP provides more than 14 modules as part of its standard offering, as well as easy access to data and analytics to help businesses make the best decisions for moving forward.

With QT9 ERP you get:

14+ modules
Customer, compliance, supplier and physical inventory web portals
Lot and serial number tracking and inventory control
eDHR/eDHF and eBR/eMBR
Tailored customer support
Real-time reporting with mobile accessibility
Seamless integration with QT9 QMS quality and compliance software

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MRP Software for Metals and Mining Operations

Why metals & mining manufacturers need smarter resource planning

Volatile Demand

Fragmented Processes

Inventory Management

Optimize metals and mining operations with QT9 MRP

Purpose-built MRP features for metals and mining

Multi-Level BOM

WIP Tracking

Inventory Forecasting

Machine Scheduling

Lot & Heat No. Tracking

Scrap/Waste Reporting

Production Dashboards

Compliance Tools

Multi-Site Support

QT9™ QMS is flexible for your business.

Modules for any business size

A solution that scales with you

Cross-Platform Support

Cloud-based MRP for global access

QT9 MRP seamlessly integrates with QT9's QMS suite

Non-conformance and CAPA management

Supplier and vendor management

Document control and revision management

Production & purchasing inspections

Customer complaints and returns (RMA process)

FAQ: MRP software for metals and mining

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