This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing iron and steel forgings from purchased iron and steel by hammering mill shapes. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Manufacturing schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.
| Primitive | Part | Layer | Description | Parameters | Coverage |
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Markets and product lines market_positioning | Demand: winning customers | Decisions | The products made, the markets they are sold into and why buyers choose them. | 0 | — |
Lead generation lead_generation | Demand: winning customers | Process | How demand finds the company. | 0 | — |
Coverage: the share of the 0 companies mapped in public on Iron and Steel Forging and below that have the primitive mapped. Primitives are matched by key, so companies on earlier versions count.
| Demand: winning customers |
| People |
| Direct sales, reps and distributors who place the product. |
| 0 |
| — |
Price lists and margin rulesPremium pricing | Demand: winning customers | Decisions | Included for Members | Members | Members |
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Quotes and bid responses quoting | Demand: winning customers | Process | Priced responses to customer requests, including custom parts. | 2 | — |
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Purchase orders and supply agreements contracts | Demand: winning customers | Decisions | Customer orders, blanket agreements and their terms. | 0 | — |
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Product engineering offer_design | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Designing products and making them manufacturable. | 0 | — |
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Demand and supply planning planning | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | The monthly balance of forecast demand against materials and capacity. | 0 | — |
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Purchasing procurement | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Buying materials and components at the right price and time. | 1 | — |
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Supplier base suppliers | Supply: making or delivering the offer | People | The suppliers of materials, components and outside processing. | 0 | — |
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Production delivery | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Making the product on the shop floor. | 0 | — |
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Inspection quality | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Checks at receipt, in process and before shipping. | 0 | — |
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Raw, work-in-progress and finished goods inventory | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Data | Stock at every stage and where it sits. | 2 | — |
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Shipping logistics | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Packing and shipping orders to customers. | 1 | — |
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Bill of materials bill_of_materials | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Data | The parts, quantities and steps that make each product, kept accurate as designs change. | 2 | — |
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Engineering changes engineering_changes | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | How a design change is requested, approved and rolled into production without scrapping stock. | 1 | — |
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Production schedulingPremium production_planning | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Included for Members | Members | Members |
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Work orders work_orders | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | The instruction to make a quantity of an item, tracked from release to completion. | 2 | — |
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Machine capacityPremium machine_capacity | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Data | Included for Members | Members | Members |
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Maintenance maintenance | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Planned and breakdown maintenance of machines and tooling. | 2 | — |
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Supplier qualityPremium supplier_quality | Supply: making or delivering the offer | Process | Included for Members | Members | Members |
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Customer onboarding customer_onboarding | Customers: keeping them | Process | From signed to served. | 0 | — |
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Customer service and returns support | Customers: keeping them | People | Order status, complaints and returned goods. | 0 | — |
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Account management account_management | Customers: keeping them | People | Who owns the relationship after the sale. | 0 | — |
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Customer data customer_data | Customers: keeping them | Data | What is known about each customer. | 0 | — |
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Retention and renewal retention | Customers: keeping them | Process | How customers come back. | 0 | — |
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Billing and invoicing billing | Money: getting paid and paying | Process | Turning delivered work into claims. | 0 | — |
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Collections and receivables collections | Money: getting paid and paying | Process | Turning claims into cash. | 0 | — |
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Payments and payables payables | Money: getting paid and paying | Process | Paying suppliers and partners. | 0 | — |
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Payroll payroll | Money: getting paid and paying | Process | Paying people. | 0 | — |
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Cost accounting and close accounting | Money: getting paid and paying | Software | The ledger, inventory valuation and month-end. | 0 | — |
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Budgeting and forecasting budgeting | Money: getting paid and paying | Decisions | What the company expects. | 0 | — |
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Cash and treasury treasury | Money: getting paid and paying | Data | What the company has and owes. | 0 | — |
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Standard costs and variancesPremium standard_costing | Money: getting paid and paying | Data | Included for Members | Members | Members |
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Org structure org_structure | People: who does the work | People | Teams, roles and reporting lines. | 0 | — |
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Hiring hiring | People: who does the work | Process | How people join. | 0 | — |
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Onboarding and training training | People: who does the work | Process | How people become productive. | 0 | — |
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Performance and pay performance_pay | People: who does the work | Decisions | How people are reviewed and rewarded. | 0 | — |
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Scheduling and capacity capacity | People: who does the work | Process | Who is available when. | 0 | — |
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Policies and culture people_policies | People: who does the work | Decisions | The rules people work under. | 0 | — |
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Planning and resource system system_of_record | Systems: tools and data | Software | The system that holds items, orders, stock and costs. | 0 | — |
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Communication tools communication | Systems: tools and data | Software | How people talk. | 0 | — |
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Integrations integrations | Systems: tools and data | Software | Which tools exchange data without re-keying. | 0 | — |
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Reporting and dashboards reporting | Systems: tools and data | Data | What leaders see, how often. | 0 | — |
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Data management data_management | Systems: tools and data | Data | Where records live and who owns them. | 0 | — |
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Security and access security | Systems: tools and data | Decisions | Who may see and change what. | 0 | — |
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Licences and registrations licensing | Control: rules the company runs under | Decisions | What the company must hold to operate. | 0 | — |
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Regulatory compliance compliance | Control: rules the company runs under | Decisions | The rules it must follow and how it proves it. | 0 | — |
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Insurance and risk insurance | Control: rules the company runs under | Decisions | What is covered and what is not. | 0 | — |
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Legal and contracts administration legal_admin | Control: rules the company runs under | Data | Where agreements and obligations live. | 0 | — |
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