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Odoo ERP for
Manufacturing

From a single production line to a multi-plant operation, we configure Odoo around your routings, work centres, and quality gates so planning, the shop floor, and costing finally read from the same data.

  • Discrete, process, and make-to-order production
  • Multi-level BOMs with operations and standard times
  • Shop-floor tablets and barcode material movement
  • Full lot and serial traceability for audits
Sector challenges

What usually breaks in a plant

The plan on the whiteboard and the reality on the floor rarely match, and the gap only surfaces when a delivery date arrives.

Material Shortages

Production stops because a component was never ordered against the plan.

No Live Progress

Order status is known only when the supervisor walks the floor.

Unmeasured Scrap

Rejections are absorbed into cost without anyone analysing the cause.

Manual Traceability

Batch genealogy is reconstructed from paper registers during an audit.

Costing After the Fact

Actual cost per job is calculated weeks after the goods have shipped.

Idle Capacity

Work centres sit waiting because scheduling happens outside the system.

Our approach

How we configure Odoo for the floor

Engineering & BOM Control

Multi-level bills of material with routings, work centres, standard times, and engineering change tracking.

Planning & MRP

Demand and forecast turned into manufacturing and purchase orders, with shortages flagged before the line starts.

Shop-Floor Execution

Operators start, pause, and complete work orders on a tablet at the work centre, so progress is live.

Quality Gates

Inline and final inspection points inside the routing, with pass, fail, and rework handling.

Maintenance

Preventive schedules and breakdown records against each machine, linked to work centre availability.

Costing & OEE

Actual versus standard cost, scrap analysis, and equipment effectiveness from live production data.

Odoo apps in this build

Manufacturing Inventory Purchase Quality Maintenance PLM Accounting Barcode Employees Sales

Production models we support

Discrete Manufacturing

Assembly operations with deep BOMs, routings, and work centre scheduling.

Process Manufacturing

Batch production with yield variation, by-products, and expiry-controlled inputs.

Make-to-Order Fabrication

Job shops quoting from a BOM and tracking cost against each individual order.

Contract Manufacturing

Subcontracted operations, customer-supplied material, and per-client traceability.

What the plant gets

Live

Order progress by work centre

Full

Lot and serial traceability

Measured

Scrap, OEE, and actual cost

Planned

Shortages caught before the line stops

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Subcontracted operations and fully outsourced manufacturing are both handled, including material issued to the vendor and received back as a finished or semi-finished item.

Yes. Replenishment rules are set per product, so stocked items reorder automatically while engineered items are manufactured against a confirmed sales order.

Material, operation time, and work centre cost per hour roll into the manufacturing order, giving actual against standard cost once the order is closed.

A shared tablet per work centre is enough. The tablet view is designed for gloved hands and barcode scanning rather than keyboard entry.

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