The Complete ERP Platform for Robotics & Automation Plants

A welding line for a car plant or a handling system for a heavy-electricals shop is not something you pick off a rate list. It is a project — quoted for months, built to a drawing, and paid in stages against milestones. Trade Node runs the pipeline, the build, the bought-out supply and the billing on one platform.

• Enquiry-to-quote pipeline
• Project cost against budget
• Stage billing with retention

The problems this trade lives with

• The quote is a project of its own: Every enquiry is configured from scratch across bought-out items, fabrication and engineering hours. Versions travel by email and the one the customer accepted is anyone's guess.
• Cost becomes visible only after the job: Panels, drives, robots, structures, freight and site hours land as bills across months. Whether the job made money is known long after it has been handed over.
• Payment hangs on milestones nobody tracks: Advance, on despatch, on commissioning, retention after acceptance. The stage is reached at site and the invoice goes out weeks later because nobody told accounts.
• Bought-out supply drives the schedule: A delayed drive or a stuck import holds up the whole line, and its status lives in one engineer's inbox instead of on the project everyone is watching.

How Trade Node runs it

• Enquiries and quotes on one pipeline: Every enquiry sits on a sales pipeline with an owner, a stage and a value, and quotes are raised and revised against it — so what was offered, and which version was accepted, stays on record.
• The job as a project with a budget: Break the order into work packages with dates and budgets, then watch actual against committed against budget while the job is still running, not after handover.
• Sub-suppliers on proper orders: Fabricators and bought-out suppliers get subcontract or purchase orders with advances and retention tracked, so physical progress and money move together.
• Stage billing tied to the milestone: Raise stage bills as proper GST invoices as milestones are certified, with retention held and released on record instead of being remembered by one person.
• Exports handled as part of the job: Consignments to an overseas plant carry customs milestones, foreign-currency values and trade documents on the same system that costed and billed the project.

Why one platform

• Projects, not products: Order-book software assumes a rate list and a delivery date. A plant order is a budget, a schedule, a set of milestones and a retention — Trade Node treats it that way.
• Engineering, buying and billing on one thread: The pipeline, the work packages, the supplier orders, the site costs and the stage bills all point at the same job, so a status question has exactly one answer.
• Your customer sees progress, not promises: Share a live progress link the buyer can open without a login, so the weekly review stops being a slide deck someone builds the night before.

Modules for this trade

• Work Management: Enquiries on a sales pipeline with owner, stage and value, plus tasks and projects so engineering and buying work against the same job.
• Trade: Quotes built line by line for a configured scope and revised as the customer negotiates, with every version kept against the enquiry.
• Contracts: The order as work packages with budgets and dates, subcontract orders with retention, site costs against budget, and stage billing to the customer.
• ERP: Purchase orders and bills for robots, drives, panels and fabrication, tagged to the job so project cost is real instead of reconstructed at the end.
• Operations: Despatch of assemblies and spares with e-way bills, and export consignments with customs milestones and forex values for overseas plants.
• Finance: Stage invoices with retention tracked and advances adjusted, plus live outstanding per customer across a long project cycle.

Frequently asked questions

Can Trade Node handle project-based orders rather than product sales?

Yes. An order can be broken into work packages with budgets and dates, costs are tagged to the job as they arrive, and billing is raised stage by stage instead of as one invoice at the end.

How is retention money handled?

Retention is tracked on stage bills to the customer and on subcontract orders to your suppliers, so what is held, what is due for release and what has been recovered is on record.

Can we track imported bought-out items on the same job?

Yes. Import consignments carry customs milestones, forex values and document references, and the purchase bills behind them post against the job like any other cost.

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