Steel and rebar
The schedule arrives on your yard's WhatsApp with weight, diameter and grade on the same line. Tablia reads it item by item, finds each piece in your catalogue and returns the quote for the salesperson to check.
The builder sends the same schedule to three yards and buys from whoever answers first. How many are left waiting because the salesperson is still typing the previous one?
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Good afternoon! I need the steel for the second-floor slab.
Good afternoon! Send the schedule right here — photo, PDF or spreadsheet, however it is.
400 kg rebar 10.0 500MPa 250 kg rebar 8.0 500MPa 120 kg rebar 12.5 500MPa 30 bars 5.0 600MPa 15 lattice girder 8 L 6 welded mesh 2.45x6 20 kg annealed wire 18
Got it. That is 7 items — I am checking them against the yard's stock now.
Quote #F7A2 is ready. 6 of the 7 items available; I marked the 8 L lattice girder as missing.
📄 quote-F7A2.pdf
Can the 12.5 come pre-bent to the stirrup shape?
It can — we bend it here. Here is version 2 of #F7A2; the previous one is now superseded.
📄 quote-F7A2-v2.pdf
Illustrative conversation. Yard, items and codes are examples.
Notice that the weight is the only clear thing on each line — and that it is exactly the one that does not match what your yard sells.
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Good afternoon! I need the steel for the second-floor slab, here is the schedule:
400 kg rebar 10.0 500MPa
250 kg rebar 8.0 500MPa
120 kg rebar 12.5 500MPa
30 bars 5.0 600MPa
15 lattice girder 8 L
6 welded mesh 2.45x6
20 kg annealed wire 18
07:12
What Tablia read
6 of 7 items found. Whatever is missing goes to the salesperson with the customer's original wording — nothing disappears from the quote quietly.
Illustrative example. The schedule and the catalogue names are fictional.
In a steel yard what decides the match is what comes after the quantity — and that is where exact-text search goes wrong.
Search by identical text finds “rebar” and delivers the wrong diameter. The 10.0 separates one piece from another, the grade separates one steel from another, and the kg is not the unit you sell in. None of the three can be lost along the way.
Weight is not a piece
The schedule asks in kilos and your sale goes out in 12-metre bars. The sum between the two depends on what the yard cuts and bends — and it stays with the salesperson.
Two ways to write the same diameter
An older site writes 3/8, a newer one writes 10.0. Both turn up on the same schedule, sent by the same customer.
500 and 600 MPa do not substitute for each other
Same diameter, different steel. Swapping one for the other changes the structure, not the price — and the error only shows up at the cage.
The schedule is read line by line, and the number that is a quantity is kept apart from the numbers that are not.
The 10.0 and the 500 MPa stay part of the rebar's name. Neither becomes a quantity, and neither is lost along the way.
Kilo, piece, bar or coil: the schedule's unit is preserved as it is. When a line carries none, it is inferred from the item and from the other lines.
“rebar 10.0 500MPa” finds the REBAR 500MPA 10.0MM 12M BAR in your catalogue. Alternative names for the same product are searched too.
A girder your yard does not carry goes to the salesperson with the customer's original wording, instead of vanishing from the schedule.
The list can arrive as
Handwriting is the only one that does not go in — returning a wrong diameter that looks right is worse than refusing the file.
What you upload
The stock file the yard already uses, in CSV, XLS or XLSX. Tablia recognises the code, description and price columns with the help of artificial intelligence, and you check the mapping before it takes effect. A diameter written with a comma, a point or in inches does not block the search.
What it does with what it could not find
The piece appears to the salesperson with the schedule's original wording, flagged as not found. It does not pick a similar diameter in its place and does not delete the line. The decision is your team's: add the item, offer an equivalent, adjust the quantity or say the yard does not carry it.
Nothing is sent to the customer automatically. The salesperson reviews item by item, adjusts quantities, swaps products, sets the price and decides when to send.
Tablia is a copilot: it takes on the typing and the searching, and hands the decision back to whoever knows the customer and the job.
Tablia takes on
You decide
Yes. In “400 kg rebar 10.0 500MPa” it separates what is a quantity from what is specification: the 400 becomes the quantity, the kg becomes the unit, and the 10.0 and the 500 MPa stay part of the item name. The search then looks for that rebar in your catalogue by meaning, not by identical text.
There is no conversion rule inside it, and it is better to say so now. The kilos the customer wrote reach the salesperson as the customer wrote them. How many bars come out of that weight depends on the diameter, on what the yard cuts and on the offcuts — that sum stays with whoever sells.
It reads 3/8 as the customer wrote it and keeps that in the item name. There is no rule inside Tablia that turns inches into millimetres. What helps is search by meaning: if your catalogue holds the older name as an alternative name for the 10.0 mm, the item is found — and the salesperson confirms before the quote goes out.
The grade goes into the item's specification, alongside the diameter. A request for 500 MPa is not met by a 600 MPa in your catalogue: a diverging specification discards the candidate, the same way a diverging brand does. What it does not do is decide for you — a piece with no exact match reaches the salesperson flagged.
No. You upload the stock file the yard already uses, in CSV, XLS or XLSX, and Tablia recognises the code, description and price columns with the help of artificial intelligence — you check the mapping before it takes effect. Abbreviated descriptions and old codes do not block the search.
It appears to the salesperson flagged as not found, with the schedule's original wording beside it. Tablia does not pick a similar diameter in its place and does not delete the line. The decision is yours: add the item, offer an equivalent, or say the yard does not carry it.
PDF, a photo in JPG or PNG, a spreadsheet in XLSX or XLS, a document in DOCX, CSV or typed text. The only one that does not go in is a handwritten list: Tablia does not accept handwriting, so it never returns a wrong diameter that looks right.
Never. Nothing is sent without the salesperson. They review item by item, adjust quantities, swap products, set the price and decide when to send. Tablia takes on the typing and the searching; the decision stays with whoever knows the customer and the job.
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In the demo we use a schedule your yard received this week, against your own catalogue. It is the fastest way to find out whether Tablia can handle what you sell.
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