Scrap yard software
New Jersey · Eastern Pennsylvania · Delaware
If your inventory goes negative, the number in your software is wrong.
| Grade | On hand (lb) |
|---|---|
| Harness wire, dirty | 212,480 |
| Harness wire, clean | minus38,150 |
| Aluminum wheels, chrome | minus9,320 |
| Prepared steel | minus146,900 |
Numbers illustrative. The pattern isn't.
If your software doesn't know that dirty harness wire and clean harness wire are the same metal, one number climbs forever and the other goes negative. What I'm building follows the metal from one grade to the next.
Does your inventory show negative balances on grades you sell every week?
If it does, you may think it's your staff, or your own record-keeping.
It isn't.
You buy it as one thing and sell it as another.
You buy dirty harness wire. You clean it. You sell clean harness wire. If your software has no idea those are the same metal, the dirty wire piles up as a number that isn't real, and the clean wire goes negative, because as far as the system knows you never bought any.
Same story every time you sort, bale, cut or upgrade:
| Bought as | Sold as | |
|---|---|---|
| Mixed aluminum | ten separate grades | |
| Prepared and unprepared steel | prepared steel | |
| Loose paper | baled paper | |
| Loose wheels | good · broken · chrome · truck |
Every one of those is a hole in your inventory, and nothing in your system closes it.
One pile of harness wire, cleaned.
Say your crew cleans 10,000 lb of dirty harness wire.
| In | ||
|---|---|---|
| Harness wire, dirty | 10,000 lb | |
| Out | ||
| Harness wire, clean | 6,800 lb | |
| Plastic and connectors | 1,700 lb | |
| Trash | 1,100 lb | |
| Lost in cleaning | 400 lb | |
Your inventory should now show 10,000 lb less dirty wire and 6,800 lb more clean wire. If that step is not on record, the dirty wire stays 10,000 lb too high, and every load of clean wire you sell takes the clean balance further below zero.
Numbers illustrative.
Which one is your yard?
If you run on software and the number doesn't add up
If your inventory climbs on grades you buy and goes negative on grades you sell, your system is missing the step where you sort, clean, bale or cut. It is not your staff.
What the first step is ↓You have no software, so you have no number.
When someone asks what's in the yard, somebody goes and looks. What I'm building keeps that count from the first ticket you write in it. If you've tried software before and it didn't stick, tell me what went wrong.
What a right number answers ↓Two questions a correct number answers.
"Do I have a full load yet?"
What I'm building shows you how close each grade is to a full load, and what's left over — so nobody has to walk the yard to find out.
Domestic trailer 44,000 lb · Export container 54,000 lb
Numbers illustrative.
How long does material sit before it ships, and is that your money or the bank's?
"What is this load costing me while it sits?"
Material sitting in your yard is your money, not moving. What I'm building tracks how long each grade has been there and what that time is costing you against your margin.
Days on the ground × your cost of money = the carry
You made the price on the phone. It should be on the ticket.
What I'm building puts the price you agreed on the ticket when that customer is on the scale, whether you pay for the load or charge to take it, and shows you what was missed both ways.
When a price gets missed, you hear about it if you paid too little. Nobody calls when you paid too much.
Where this came from.
Aurichal is new. I started by spending days in a working scrap yard — on the scale, in the baler building, watching tickets get written — and I'm building from what I saw rather than what I assumed.
Where this stands
As of November 12, 2026.
Why start with the inventory number: it sits downstream of every weight, ticket and price. It can't be right unless all of those were.
- Built: the part that follows material from the grade you bought to the grades you sell. It has not yet run on a yard's real numbers.
- Being built: tickets and the scale, made to keep up with the person at the window; price agreements; an iPhone app.
- Not in the first version: a cash kiosk, or links to accounting software.
Your email comes to me.
I read every email myself.
Eddie Faillace
Founder, Aurichal Inc.
I come to the yard.
New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware. Close enough to stand in your scale house, and I do.
Tell me what your inventory says, and what's actually in the yard.
If those two numbers don't match, we should talk. It takes fifteen minutes and I'll tell you straight whether I can help.
No need to send anything; I'll look at it with you.
- An email, then a fifteen-minute call at a time you pick.
- If it's worth a closer look, a visit to your yard.
- Nothing installed. Nothing switched.