Toll processing paperwork, from the coil on your dock to the toll invoice, drafted for a person to release.

A toll job starts when the owner's metal reaches your dock with the mill's tags and a bill of lading, and the owner's release says what to make: slit widths and mults, sheet lengths, blanks, packaging and where it ships. Your shop runs it and records what came off the line. Then someone in the office turns tags, run sheets and scale tickets into the receipt, the yield report and the invoice the owner will check against its own records.

For the test, AI reads copies of those records and drafts each document: the receipt coil by coil, a yield and scrap accounting that balances weight in against weight out, and the toll invoice with every charge tied to its line on the release. Anything that won't balance, or has no rule in your records, goes to a person with the reason. Nothing is sent to a customer.

The receipt is the owner's count of its own metal. Each coil arrives under the mill's coil number, heat and tag weight, often booked before it lands: Invera lists receiving customer-owned material in transit from the mill by vessel, truck or barge among the toll cases INVEX handles. Scale and tag may not agree to the pound; Cleveland-Cliffs' terms of sale accept a small variation between its scale weight and the buyer's. The receipt also shows whether a coil fits the line the release names. One large processor's tolling line card takes coils up to 80,000 pounds into its slitter on 24 or 32-inch IDs, and up to 60,000 pounds into cut to length. The draft records tag and scale weights, ID, OD and width, and marks any coil your own line limits rule out.

The release is the work order, and terms ride on it. It names coils, finished sizes, packaging, ship-to and sometimes the paperwork that travels with the load; some processors offer to pack toll slitting with the customer's own paperwork and blind ship it. One processor's published conditions of slitting put the processing price in its own order acknowledgment, have the customer warrant it is entitled as principal to place the order, and allow storage charges when no delivery instructions arrive within thirty days of a ready notice. The draft carries each release instruction onto the packing list and lists finished coils held past your storage rule.

Yield is a weight balance. Every pound received lands somewhere: finished mults, sheets or blanks, edge trim, head and tail ends, the skeleton left by blanking, rejects, or a coil returned unrun. Who owns the scrap is a contract question. One processor's toll processing terms make scrap and metal residue the processor's property unless agreed otherwise, and hold the toll price on material its own wrong processing ruins until cause and responsibility are settled. Other arrangements return scrap to the owner or credit it. The draft applies the rule your success criteria name for each customer, shows the arithmetic coil by coil, and leaves every yield and scrap credit decision to a person.

A defect found on your line is the owner's claim. Cleveland-Cliffs' light flat-rolled claims policy, dated January 2026, asks that suspect material be contained and processing stopped at the earliest detection, wants claims for accumulated scrap within 180 days of processing, and won't pay for sorting, storage or extra processing it did not approve first. Invera lists a non-conformance function for complaints and claims among its toll cases. The draft writes up each recorded defect against the owner's coil number and heat, with weights and where your shop record says the run stopped, kept apart from ordinary scrap so your reviewer decides how it is billed.

The invoice prices the work, never the metal. It carries a charge per operation on the weight or count your contract names, plus packaging, storage and freight, and no value for the metal. Processors' terms leave the metal's risk with its owner too: one set of slitting conditions limits damages to the price payable for the processing and expects the customer to insure goods in its custody. The draft builds each charge from your rate sheet or the owner's contract and marks any line where entry and exit weight would give different answers. Your reviewer, often the toll coordinator, checks receipts, the weight balance, scrap handling, defect write-ups and every charge.

With a yes from your reviewer against the success criteria, the same job drafts receipts, yield reports and toll invoices on new work for about 30 days.

A person releases every document, and every yield figure, scrap credit and defect charge is still decided by your team. Nothing reaches a customer until someone sends it.

A next job is a separate decision with a price of its own.