Cladex Industries — Industrial Manufacturing, Engineered for Precision
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, Cladex operates from a modern, high-tech production facility equipped with cutting-edge machinery, including TRUMPF laser cutting, bending and punching systems, KMT waterjet cutting, and FRONIUS welding technologies. The company follows a Make-To-Order (MTO) model, supported by an in-house technical and CAD engineering team that transforms customer designs into optimized, production-ready solutions while meeting strict quality, traceability, and delivery standards for major clients like Schneider.
Despite its advanced manufacturing capabilities, Cladex faced operational challenges after implementing Odoo with a previous vendor. The system did not reflect the complexity of its manufacturing processes, leaving critical operations manual, production control limited, and costing inaccurate. Cladex partnered with Talents Digital Services (TDS) to rescue and redesign the ERP implementation.
How Cladex transformed Odoo into a fully aligned industrial manufacturing platform—enabling accurate costing, stronger production control, and end-to-end operational visibility tailored to real shop-floor 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.
Business value
Cladex moved from “having a system” to owning a true industrial ERP platform.
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.
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