Small and medium enterprise businesses (SME) often have a problem in buying good quality steel from a big manufacturer.
This is for various reasons, such as, the minimum amount of steel which the manufacturer sells is more than the SME requires.
Hence, this leads to maintaining a huge warehouse, adding to the total cost.
This saves the SME from the trouble of buying extra steel or even maintaining an inventory.
Metals Service Center Institute, the organization into which the Steel Service Center Institute merged