Our references
Aquasteel Ltd. t/a Aquadam
Aquasteel designs and manufactures steel tanks to the latest engineering codes and practices. Almost every main process is managed on Odoo, from procurement to sales and everything in between. With limited floor space and due to the size of a completed tank, raw materials are only purchased per manufacturing order using MTO route as the trigger from a sales order. Documentation on tank designs are kept for each manufacturing order, quality checks and costs are tracked per custom tank and used in a combination with a margin pricelist to ensure a profit is made with each manufactured tank. Manufacturing / Maintenance
Atlantic Abrasive & Hardware (PTY) Ltd
Distributors of Abrasives, Power Tools and Safety equipment, this business recently migrated from Microsoft Great Plains to Odoo.Des Killassy, Director, says, “We do a lot of buy-outs and Odoo can handle these in a more efficient way. Odoo records where we buy from, the order number, allocating that to an invoice and to the person who opened it, etc. It gives us more control.”
I like the system. I like the simplicity of it. I’m impressed by the way it is running my company at the moment. I’m happy with the reporting the system it comes bolted with. We plan to progress our other company onto Odoo but we’re first checking and once all issues have been ironed out, we’ll do that,” he says. Manufacturing / Maintenance
Central Energy Fund
The Central Energy Fund (CEF) is a strategic state-owned entity driving South Africa’s energy security and sustainability. To support its mandate, CEF required a recruitment system that couldhandle high-volume hiring needs while ensuring efficiency, compliance, and transparency.
Nated Systems developed a customized Recruitment Suite that fully digitizes and automates CEF’s hiring processes. This solution simplifies job posting, candidate screening, selection workflows, and onboarding while ensuring compliance with government employmentregulations.
Key Benefits for CEF:
✅ End-to-end recruitment automation to manage large-scale hiring efficiently
✅ Improved candidate assessment tools to identify top-tier talent
✅ Regulatory compliance features ensuring adherence to public sector hiring policies
✅ Seamless integration with HR platforms and Microsoft 365 for an optimized workflow
With this cutting-edge recruitment solution, CEF can now efficiently attract and retain skilled professionals, supporting its mission to drive South Africa’s energy agenda forward. Manufacturing / Maintenance
Centurion Micro Electronics
CME supplies embedded and industrial PC products to Africa. These are rugged PCs used in industrial settings like mines. The business currently operates from a store and deals with clients via email. They are using Odoo to move onto an E-Commerce platform.Alicea Kelly, CME Marketing says, “The business directors looked at quite a few options when they were choosing a new system. They chose Odoo because it looked like it was the most user-friendly, easy to learn and understand. It was also one of the systems that incorporated everything we wanted. We wanted to add difficult interfaces, things we are used to that we needed to incorporate into the new system. Odoo could do that, where other systems would have struggled.
Odoo links all the different parts of our business together. For example, it links our website with our accounting system, so if you make a change on the accounting system that feeds directly through to the website. Odoo was also the best cost-wise for everything we wanted to do.
We are happy with the system. We only started using it on 1 March (one month ago), so we’re still in the breaking-down and fixing-up stage and we’re not very clever with the system yet. So far though, we are very happy with it. The people at Datasmith are very fast to help us with any issue we need to sort out. We haven’t been in a situation where we’ve thought we should’ve chosen another system yet – we’ve resolved every issue, either in the old way we used too, or in a new way with Datasmith’s help. Manufacturing / Maintenance
Chemvulc
Chemvulc was established in 1977. With four production facilities, Chemvulc manufactures specialized tyre repair materials for repairing tubes, passenger, truck and OTR tyres; as well as its growing range of industrial rubber products. Chemvulc adopted Odoo to modernize their operations and improve inventory management, order processing, and customer service. With Odoo's integrated platform, Chemvulc was able to automate manual tasks, reduce errors, and enhance their overall efficiency. AP Systems www.ap-systems.co.za has supported us through the implementation process and is always available should we have any queries or issues.Manufacturing / Maintenance
