Overview
Cladex Industries is a leading industrial manufacturer specializing in advanced sheet metal fabrication and precision engineering, serving large enterprise clients across sectors such as air conditioning, automotive, cabinets and enclosures, metal furniture, and media solutions. Operating in a modern, high-tech production environment, Cladex uses advanced machinery including TRUMPF laser cutting, bending and punching systems, KMT waterjet cutting, and FRONIUS welding. The company follows a Make-To-Order (MTO) model, with an in-house technical and CAD engineering team that converts client designs into optimized, production-ready solutions while meeting strict quality, traceability, and delivery requirements for major enterprise customers like Schneider.
Before partnering with Talents Digital Services (TDS), Cladex had implemented Odoo with a previous vendor, but the system failed to support the complexity of its manufacturing operations. Key processes remained manual, production control was weak, and costing lacked accuracy. TDS was brought in to rescue and redesign the ERP setup, transforming Odoo into a robust industrial manufacturing platform fully aligned with Cladex’s real operational needs.
Overview
Cladex Industries is a leading industrial manufacturer specializing in advanced sheet metal fabrication and precision engineering, serving large enterprise clients across sectors such as air conditioning, automotive, cabinets and enclosures, metal furniture, and media solutions. Operating in a modern, high-tech production environment, Cladex uses advanced machinery including TRUMPF laser cutting, bending and punching systems, KMT waterjet cutting, and FRONIUS welding. The company follows a Make-To-Order (MTO) model, with an in-house technical and CAD engineering team that converts client designs into optimized, production-ready solutions while meeting strict quality, traceability, and delivery requirements for major enterprise customers like Schneider.
Before partnering with Talents Digital Services (TDS), Cladex had implemented Odoo with a previous vendor, but the system failed to support the complexity of its manufacturing operations. Key processes remained manual, production control was weak, and costing lacked accuracy. TDS was brought in to rescue and redesign the ERP setup, transforming Odoo into a robust industrial manufacturing platform fully aligned with Cladex’s real operational needs.
The Challenge
- Highly complex manufacturing environment with dynamic product dimensions (Width, Length, Thickness, Material Type).
- Continuously growing and non-static product tree.
- Make-To-Order operations—no production without confirmed sales orders.
- A single steel sheet could:
- Be split across multiple manufacturing orders
- Serve different customers
- Raw materials are purchased in bulk and used over long periods, creating a gap between the purchase date and the actual manufacturing date.
- Inability to allocate raw material cost fairly across multiple orders, calculate real production cost per job, and control WIP accurately.
- Previous Odoo implementation failed to handle manufacturing complexity, cost allocation, and production traceability.
The Challenge
- Highly complex manufacturing environment with dynamic product dimensions (Width, Length, Thickness, Material Type).
- Continuously growing and non-static product tree.
- Make-To-Order operations—no production without confirmed sales orders.
- A single steel sheet could:
- Be split across multiple manufacturing orders
- Serve different customers
- Raw materials are purchased in bulk and used over long periods, creating a gap between the purchase date and the actual manufacturing date.
- Inability to allocate raw material cost fairly across multiple orders, calculate real production cost per job, and control WIP accurately.
- Previous Odoo implementation failed to handle manufacturing complexity, cost allocation, and production traceability.
The Solution
TDS redesigned Cladex’s ERP architecture around Advanced Manufacturing principles—turning Odoo from a generic system into a true industrial manufacturing engine.
Key Innovations Delivered by TDS
- Advanced manufacturing model supporting dynamic product dimensions, non-fixed BOM structures, and Make-To-Order flows.
- Custom material allocation logic to split one raw sheet across multiple manufacturing orders with proportional cost allocation.
- Cost Share Mechanism, where raw materials purchased earlier are revalued at manufacturing time to ensure fair and accurate job costing.
- End-to-end flow: Sales Order → Manufacturing Order → Raw Material Demand → Purchase → Receipt → Production → Delivery → Accounting.
- Real-time visibility into WIP, material consumption, order-level profitability, and production efficiency.
- Full integration across Manufacturing, Inventory, Purchasing, Accounting, and HR (labour tracking).
Odoo became a manufacturing command centre, not just an accounting tool.
The Solution
TDS redesigned Cladex’s ERP architecture around Advanced Manufacturing principles—turning Odoo from a generic system into a true industrial manufacturing engine.
Key Innovations Delivered by TDS
- Advanced manufacturing model supporting dynamic product dimensions, non-fixed BOM structures, and Make-To-Order flows.
- Custom material allocation logic to split one raw sheet across multiple manufacturing orders with proportional cost allocation.
- Cost Share Mechanism, where raw materials purchased earlier are revalued at manufacturing time to ensure fair and accurate job costing.
- End-to-end flow: Sales Order → Manufacturing Order → Raw Material Demand → Purchase → Receipt → Production → Delivery → Accounting.
- Real-time visibility into WIP, material consumption, order-level profitability, and production efficiency.
- Full integration across Manufacturing, Inventory, Purchasing, Accounting, and HR (labour tracking).
Odoo became a manufacturing command centre, not just an accounting tool.
The Impact
- Full control over complex manufacturing operations.
- Accurate job-level and order-level costing.
- Fair distribution of raw material cost across multiple orders.
- Real-time visibility of WIP, production stages, material usage, and profitability per order.
- Successful replacement of the failed legacy implementation.
- Reliable integration across Sales, Manufacturing, Inventory, Finance, and HR.
- Operational readiness to meet Schneider’s high-volume supply demands.
Cladex moved from “having a system” to owning a true industrial ERP platform.
- Full control over complex manufacturing operations.
- Accurate job-level and order-level costing.
- Fair distribution of raw material cost across multiple orders.
- Real-time visibility of WIP, production stages, material usage, and profitability per order.
- Successful replacement of the failed legacy implementation.
- Reliable integration across Sales, Manufacturing, Inventory, Finance, and HR.
- Operational readiness to meet Schneider’s high-volume supply demands.
Cladex moved from “having a system” to owning a true industrial ERP platform.
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