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Territory 04 · Bearings × Industrial Motion seam

Territory · Substrate signal

04Two product lines. One customer. One conversation.

Your words: "we used to be a barring company, but then we acquired a lot of industrial motion business... 50/50 types." The acquisitions came in with their own systems, sourcing networks, distribution. The cross-product orchestration layer — when one customer buys both — is the day-2 question. We stitch microservices around your specific shape; we don't pretend it's standard.

In the flow you already run.

Bearings flow · acquired Industrial Motion flows (multiple)
CADDIE · cross-product order ingest · unified customer view · stitched microservices
Bearings ERP / TMS instance
Industrial Motion ERP instances (legacy from acquisitions)
Shared customer (one purchase order, two product lines)
Distribution network overlap

Acquired entities each came in with their own systems. The customer doesn't want to track two POs, two delivery promises, two settlements. Caddie stitches the cross-product flow without forcing system unification.

The substrate.

Your conversation

"We used to be a barring company, but then we acquired a lot of industrial motion business over a period of time. So we are heavily into industrial motion to almost like 50/50 types."

Srini Sarangapani · Director Supply Chain (India + ASEAN)

How we approach unique problems

Naveen on the call: "They take these problem areas which are not standard solutions, right? And say, we have the concept defined, we have the basic fundamentals already there. Now, how do we apply these to other problem areas?" The same optimization core powers warehouse-labor at NX, service-engineer scheduling at Siemens Healthcare, BPO resource optimization at DHL.

Stitch-microservices-for-unique-problems pattern

Where we've shipped this shape

Mahindra: three different flows on one platform — inbound milk-runs from suppliers, spare-parts distribution, and FG outbound with automatic load planning. Same engine; three different operational shapes. Cross-flow orchestration in production.

Mahindra · three-flow deployment · in production

Three surfaces · here.

Cross-product order ingest

When a single customer PO carries both bearings and industrial motion line items, Caddie reads both, normalizes, and presents one unified planning view — even if the underlying ERPs are separate.

Unified customer view

One delivery promise, one settlement, one audit trail per customer — even if the inventory ships from two different DCs running on two different systems.

90-day stitched POC

Bring us the specific shape. We map our existing modules (read · plan · execute · audit) to your problem. Three-month free POC, then MSA. We don't pretend the solution is off-the-shelf.

Where we have shipped this shape.

3 flows

In production at Mahindra · inbound + spare-parts + FG outbound on one platform

90 days

Free POC pattern · stitched microservices for the specific problem

1 customer

Wedge: one shared bearings + IM customer or distribution lane

Questions, fence, timeline.

  1. Which of your top customers today buys both bearings and industrial motion products — and tracks two separate delivery promises against you?
  2. Of the acquired industrial motion entities, which one's system landscape today is most painful to bridge to the bearings side?
  3. Where would a 90-day proof land — one shared customer's end-to-end view, or one shared distribution lane that today carries both product families?

We would touch

  • Cross-product order ingest + unified planning view
  • Customer-facing one-promise-per-PO surface
  • Stitched microservices around your specific shape
  • Cross-flow audit trail

We would not

  • Force ERP / system unification across acquired entities
  • Replace working systems on either side
  • Touch the global ABP
  • Run physical product-handling operations
12 weeks · one shared customer or lane

Stitched POC: one customer or one distribution lane that today moves through two separate workflows · we bring our existing modules, you bring your shape · three-month free POC, then MSA.

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