The cylinders that stop your arc are leased, so they never enter your ERP as inventory at all. The tips, cups and tungsten that stop it just as often are too cheap for anyone to log. Arda puts a scannable card on both, and on the filler metal and weld-on parts that are on the print, so one scan fires the reorder and the arc keeps burning.
Your first 10 cards are free. Works alongside your ERP, no rip and replace.
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A stockout is a reorder that fired too late, or never fired at all. Count-based systems leave that trigger to a person, and people are busy. Arda makes the trigger physical: the card on the bin is the reorder, sized to your supplier's lead time, so replenishment starts the moment stock runs low and the shelf refills before the second bin runs dry. That works the same on a cylinder of shielding gas, a bin of contact tips, or a spool of MIG wire.
Scanning the empty bin is the fastest way to get more, so the reorder fires on its own, every time.
Reorder point and safety stock are set to your real burn rate and lead time, so the second bin always covers the wait.
When a job changes what you burn, you resize the card once. Nobody recalculates a min/max by hand.
The shelf did not fail. The signal did.
A welding shop's shelf is bimodal. At one end sits a cylinder you do not own, do not receive and cannot read from ten feet away. At the other sits a box of 0.035 contact tips too cheap for anyone to log. Both of them stop the arc, and the arc is the whole product.
Empties and fulls chain up in the same rack against the same wall, and from ten feet they are identical. So the shortage gets found by a welder mid-bead, when the shielding cuts out and the last four inches go porous. By then the gas house has already run its route.
A leased cylinder never enters your ERP as inventory because you do not own it. A box of 0.035 contact tips is too cheap for anyone to log. The two items most likely to stop the arc are the two nothing is watching, for opposite reasons.
Industry-average operating factor is about 20 percent, roughly 12 minutes of arc per labour hour. Five minutes hunting a full bottle or a fresh box of tips is not an inconvenience. It is the product.
Arda's inventory replenishment software for welding shops puts a scannable card on the cylinder rack and on every bin at the bench, so the scan fires the reorder on its own. No purchase order to type, no ERP rollout, and nothing new for the welder to do beyond the thing that already gets them more gas. It is the same card-and-scan loop Arda runs across every trade, set out in full on the inventory replenishment software hub.
The loudest pain is off-BOM: the gas and the gun parts that never reach a bill of materials, so nothing is watching them. The same card works on the filler metal, weld studs and backing rings that are on the print. One motion for everything the shop holds.
Every stocked item gets a durable card with a QR code, from the cylinder rack to a bin of contact tips to a spool of ER70S-6. A welder scans it with the phone already in their pocket. No extra hardware, no login friction.
The scan hits Arda's backend, which places the reorder at the right quantity from the right supplier. No purchase order to type.
Purchasing and the owner watch which cards are pulled, on order, or restocked across parts and locations, without walking the floor.
Your gas house already owns the cylinders, bills the rental, keeps its own cylinder balances and hydrotest records, and drives a fixed route. That is a vendor-managed arrangement in everything but the name, and the cards run inside it rather than beside it: the supplier keeps the asset records, Arda fires the request from the rack.
Each card encodes a proven loop sized to your real consumption: reorder point, the two-bin system, min/max levels, and safety stock. The math lives on the card, not in someone's head.
Card it today, scan it tomorrow, and see the reorder fire without anyone counting. Expand across the bench and the rack when it has proven itself.
Count-everything tools fail because they add a task. Arda removes one. That is what holds compliance past week one.
The card is the replenishment signal, on every item you stock. Nobody tallies stock or runs a cycle count to make the numbers real.
The simplest way to do the job is to scan the card, so compliance sticks where badge-in ERP screens lose the floor on day one.
No scanner gun, no new login, no training day. A welder scans with the phone already in their pocket, so nothing new stands between them and the reorder.
Reorder point, min/max, and safety stock are baked into the card at the point of use, not buried in a back-office sheet that drifts the moment demand shifts.
One scan when a bin runs low, and the refill is already moving. Same motion for every item on the floor. No software to learn.
Orders fire at the right quantity with no stack of manual POs, and every card's status is in one place.
Hands off reordering for good and gets the hours back for quoting, with real consumption data across the whole shelf instead of gut feel.
Shops whose output is measured in arc-on time, that put a card on the gas, the filler metal and the gun parts, and got the bench back.
Heavy-industry fabricator of custom trucks and metalwork, which is weld-led work in everything but the name. Weekly stockouts gone, and the floor went from four builds at a time to eight in six months, without a bigger shop or a bigger team.
Read the Assembly Industrial case study →Overland vehicle builder with heavy in-house fabrication and welding. Cards went on 100% of supplies inside a year, and holdings on critical components fell from 25+ to 5 while output went up 6x.
Read the Rossmonster case study →For the items that actually stop a job, here is how the three common approaches stack up on the floor.
| Arda | ERP / MRP | Spreadsheet / memory | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal to reorder | Scan a card, order fires automatically | Manual entry, then a planning run | Someone remembers to look |
| Covers every stocked item | Yes, on-BOM and off, same card | On-BOM only, misses the rest | Only if updated by hand |
| Shop-floor compliance | High, scanning is the easy path | Low, floor skips data entry | Low, depends on one person |
| Setup time | Start with one part in a day | Months of implementation | Fast, but breaks as it grows |
| Works with your existing ERP | Yes, splices in, no rip and replace | It is the ERP | Disconnected from it |
| Cost to get started | $0 for your first 10 cards | High license and rollout cost | Free, until a stockout costs a day |
Weighing specific tools rather than whole approaches? The Arda Comparison Hub has side-by-side breakdowns against eTurns, Fishbowl, Katana, Cin7, Fastenal, Odoo, Sortly, and more.
No implementation project. Card a single item and the loop is running.
Free plan, no card required to try it. Paid plans add a 7-day trial.
Splices in alongside QuickBooks, NetSuite, Odoo, Xero and more. No rip and replace.
Priced per card, not per seat, so the whole floor can scan from day one.
Fat Fender carded the parts it stocks after two failed ERP implementations, killed its stockouts and cut a 365-day backlog to 20. Start on the cylinder rack, on us, and let the bench reorder itself.
Free plan, unlimited users, no ERP rollout.
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