Enlight Metals Brings India’s First AI-Enabled 24-Hour Metal Procurement Model to Manufacturers
NEW DELHI : Enlight Metals, India’s first company to introduce AI-enabled 24-hour metal procurement and delivery, is transforming industrial metal sourcing by enabling manufacturers to procure ready-stock steel within 24 hours. Powered by artificial intelligence, the platform enables faster sourcing decisions, improves supply chain visibility, and helps manufacturers build more efficient, resilient, and intelligent procurement operations.
Despite rapid digital transformation across manufacturing, procurement continues to witness various challenges such as fragmented communication, manual coordination, and lengthy approval cycles, which often results in production delays and operational inefficiencies. Enlight Metals addresses these gaps by using AI to analyse supplier availability, inventory levels, pricing, logistics readiness, and regional demand in real time, enabling manufacturers to make faster and more informed procurement decisions. This intelligent approach has helped the company reduce end-to-end transaction processing time by 75%, increase daily order handling capacity by 10x without expanding administrative headcount, and consistently maintain its 24-hour delivery commitment for ready-stock steel.
The platform has also delivered significant operational efficiencies across the procurement ecosystem. AI-driven demand forecasting and supplier matching have reduced inventory carrying costs by over 30%, lowered manual administrative effort by more than 60%, and accelerated supplier discovery and price matching by 80%. Additionally, Enlight Metals has achieved a 98.5% success rate in meeting its 24-hour delivery commitments while improving order processing accuracy to 99.4%, enabling manufacturers to minimise downtime and maintain uninterrupted production.
Commenting on the development, Mr. Dhananjay Goel, Managing Director, Enlight Metals, said, “Manufacturing has embraced AI on the factory floor, but procurement has largely remained dependent on manual processes and delayed decision-making. At Enlight Metals, we believe procurement should be just as intelligent as production. Our AI-enabled 24-hour delivery model enables manufacturers to move from reactive sourcing to predictive procurement, helping them reduce delays, optimise working capital, and build more resilient supply chains. As India advances towards becoming a global manufacturing hub, intelligent procurement will play a defining role in strengthening industrial competitiveness.”
The AI-enabled procurement model is already supporting manufacturers across automotive, renewable energy, engineering, infrastructure, industrial equipment, and electrical sectors where uninterrupted material availability is critical. Looking ahead, Enlight Metals aims to further strengthen its AI capabilities through predictive sourcing and deeper enterprise integration, enabling manufacturers to anticipate demand, automate replenishment, and build smarter, more resilient supply chains.
