Free tools for scrap yards
Practical, no-signup tools used on the scale every day.
Why we give these away
Every tool here answers a question an operator has before they are ready to buy anything. What is this scrap code. What should a scale ticket contain. What is manual ticketing actually costing us. None of them require an email address, because gating a reference table behind a form wastes the visitor's time and ours.
What an ISRI code is
An ISRI code is the trade shorthand for a scrap grade, published by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. “Barley” is clean aluminium radiators, “Birch” is a copper and brass mix. Buyers and sellers use them so a phone quote is unambiguous. They are a naming convention, not a specification: the contract still governs what is actually deliverable.
What a scale ticket has to contain
A defensible scale ticket records gross weight, tare weight, the net weight derived from them, any deduction with a stated reason, the material and grade, the price applied, the amount paid, the method of payment, and the seller's identity. Most disputes trace to a missing deduction reason or an unrecorded seller ID, which is why those two are worth being strict about.
How to work out what manual ticketing costs
Take the minutes spent per manual ticket, multiply by tickets per day and by the loaded hourly cost of the person doing it, then add the value of mispriced tickets: the share priced wrong multiplied by average ticket value. The second number is usually larger than the first, and it is the one operators tend not to have measured. The ROI calculator does this arithmetic with your figures.