Manage production, materials, inventory, purchasing, quality, maintenance and sales through one integrated Odoo ERP. From MRP and BOMs to work orders and shop-floor operations, Odoo gives manufacturers a clear view of production, material availability and operational progress.
Manufacturers and industrial businesses running Odoo with us
MRP stands for Manufacturing Resource Planning. Odoo MRP is the manufacturing application inside Odoo ERP that plans and runs production — manufacturing orders, bills of materials, work orders, work centers and production scheduling — using the same database as inventory, purchasing, quality, maintenance and sales. Odoo covers MRP II scope: not just material planning, but capacity, routing, costing and shop-floor execution.
Yes, Odoo has MRP. It is included in Odoo Community as the Manufacturing app; PLM, Quality, Maintenance, the Shop Floor interface and the Master Production Schedule are Enterprise.
Odoo connects manufacturing with the business operations that support production. Manage manufacturing orders, BOMs, work orders, work centers, production planning, inventory, procurement, quality, maintenance, traceability and manufacturing costs within one ERP environment.
Each stage works with the information required by the next, helping production, procurement, warehouse, quality and sales teams coordinate operations from material procurement through finished-goods delivery.
Each of these is a project OdooBots delivered. The scope described is what was actually implemented — not a capability list.
Sales, manufacturing, dispatch, invoicing and GST compliance running as a single connected ERP flow, so a confirmed order carries through production to a compliant invoice without re-keying.
Dispatch and invoicing were the handover points where quantities and tax treatment used to drift. Bringing them into the same flow as manufacturing removed that gap.
A customised Odoo ERP and CRM covering RFQ management, quotation tracking, sales forecasting and opportunity management across the parts business.
High RFQ volume with repeat part numbers needs quotation history and forecasting in the same system as stock, or sales commits to quantities production cannot meet.
Technical quotation management, enquiry tracking, quotation revision control and sales analytics consolidated into one integrated platform.
Engineered-to-order equipment quotes go through many revisions. Without revision control the version that reaches the customer and the version costed in production stop matching.
ERP implementation with customisation plus IoT-based automation for AMC and CMC contracts, predictive alerts for machinery degradation, and a workforce and testing-tool allocation model. Apps: Contacts, Employees, Inventory, Purchase, Sales, Service and Accounting.
Service contracts and manufacturing were tracked separately, so breakdowns were discovered after they happened rather than scheduled against machine data.
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The applications that carry a manufacturing business, and what each one owns once it is configured around your operation rather than installed from a template.
Manufacturing orders, production planning, scheduling, work orders and shop-floor operations. The Master Production Schedule supports longer-term planning from forecast demand plus existing manufacturing and purchase orders.
A BOM defines the components and operations required to manufacture a product. Odoo supports multi-level BOMs, product variants, operations and routing configurations.
Work orders divide manufacturing into defined operations; work centers carry scheduling, capacity planning, equipment, costs and efficiency. Work-order dependencies control the sequence operations run in.
Product changes and BOM versions managed through engineering change orders and approval workflows, with version history so teams can track changes to products and manufacturing structures.
Quality control points, checks, instructions and alerts built into manufacturing operations, so quality is part of the production workflow rather than a separate process.
Preventive and corrective maintenance for manufacturing equipment, with requests scheduled and tracked alongside production operations instead of in a separate register.
Manufacturing depends on availability and traceability of raw materials, components, WIP and finished products. Odoo connects manufacturing with inventory and supports lot and serial tracking.
Procurement connects to production requirements so purchasing manages the materials manufacturing needs. Planning considers purchase orders and forecast demand when replenishing.
Sales demand connects with manufacturing and inventory, aligning customer orders with production and fulfilment instead of running sales and production as isolated processes.
Odoo supports three subcontracting flows — basic, with components dropped to the subcontractor, and with resupply — so outsourced operations stay inside the same BOM, costing and traceability chain instead of becoming a purchase you reconcile later.
Operators run work orders from a tablet or barcode scanner: start, pause, record quantities, log work instructions and close the operation. The WIP numbers in the back office then reflect what actually happened on the line.
Scrap removes material to a dedicated scrap location so it leaves stock without disappearing from the ledger. Unbuild orders reverse a finished product back into its components — the correct route for rework, warranty teardown and incorrectly built units.
On most manufacturing rollouts the BOM is not the hard part — keeping the BOM, the routing and the product cost in step after an engineering change is. PLM gives every revision an owner, an approval and a version history, so production and accounting are reading the same structure.
These are the configuration decisions that decide whether a manufacturing rollout holds up after go-live. We walk through each one on the shop floor before a single record is migrated.
One-step posts components and finished goods instantly. Two- and
three-step add pick-components and store-finished transfers, which you need the moment WIP sits on the floor
overnight. Set at Inventory › Configuration › Warehouses and painful to change later.
Standard, FIFO or AVCO at Inventory ›
Configuration › Product Categories. Standard cost with no periodic revaluation is the single most
common reason a manufacturer’s margin report is wrong.
A kit explodes at delivery and never creates a manufacturing order. Teams that pick “Kit” for a sub-assembly lose all work-order routing and shop-floor visibility beneath it.
Work centers need realistic capacity, time efficiency and OEE targets, otherwise scheduling returns dates nobody on the floor believes and planners go back to spreadsheets.
Tracking every raw material by lot sounds safe and doubles data
entry. We set tracking only where traceability is contractually or legally required, then use
Inventory › Products › Traceability to prove the chain still closes.
Reordering rules suit stable consumption; the Master Production Schedule suits forecast-driven assembly. Running both on the same product generates duplicate purchase orders.
Odoo handles scrap and by-products cleanly, but only if the locations and cost shares are defined up front. Rework flows almost always need a configuration decision rather than custom code.
Shop-floor tablet, supervisor back-office or barcode. This single decision drives training, hardware and whether your WIP numbers are real at 6pm.
Odoo connects the processes that move a product from customer demand and material procurement through production, quality and finished-goods delivery — teams work with shared manufacturing, inventory, procurement and sales information inside one ERP.
Customer demand creates the need for products and establishes production requirements.
Raw materials and components are planned and procured from manufacturing requirements.
Materials are tracked for availability, movement and traceability before and during production.
Required components, quantities and manufacturing operations are defined for each product.
Manufacturing orders are planned and scheduled against demand and available resources.
Production is organised into operations and executed across the appropriate work centers.
Quality checks and production issues are incorporated into the manufacturing process.
Completed products move into inventory, available for delivery and fulfilment.
Odoo supports one-, two- and three-step manufacturing, so the warehouse steps can match how your product physically moves. Lot and serial genealogy then links a finished unit back through its work orders to the raw-material lot and the purchase order it arrived on.
The right configuration depends on your products, production processes, warehouses, procurement model and operational requirements.
Multi-level manufacturing, multi-step manufacturing and multi-stage production, configured to match how your product is actually built.
BOM depth, sub-assemblies and the warehouse steps that sit between each stage of production.
Product variants, routing, operation sequences and continuous improvement through engineering change orders.
Serial-number tracking, lot genealogy and the quality control points that gate each operation.
We would rather tell you this before you buy licences than after. These are the cases where we scope significant development, recommend a bolt-on, or tell you Odoo is the wrong tool for the job.
Odoo schedules against work-center capacity but is not an advanced planning and scheduling engine. Sequence-dependent changeovers and true finite scheduling need an external APS or custom development.
Recipe-based production with variable potency, concentration or yield-by-batch is not native. Chemicals, pharma and food blending usually need custom fields and costing logic.
By-products are supported; splitting cost across multiple co-products by market value or yield is not, and requires development on manufacturing order valuation.
PLC and SCADA data can be pushed into Odoo, but Odoo is not a MES. High-frequency machine telemetry belongs in a MES or historian that feeds Odoo in summary.
Tens of thousands of stock moves per day need infrastructure work, queue jobs and careful module choices — not a default hosting plan.
If the shop floor will not move off its spreadsheets, no ERP succeeds. We raise this during requirement analysis, not after go-live.
If your requirement is on this list, say so on the first call. We will tell you what it costs to build it — or that you should buy something else.
Implementing Odoo for manufacturing requires more than installing the Manufacturing app. Your ERP should reflect how materials, production operations, quality, inventory, purchasing and sales work together across your business.
Understand your products, production processes, BOMs, work centers, inventory flow, procurement requirements and reporting needs.
Map your existing processes and define the Odoo workflows that fit your manufacturing operations.
Configure MRP, BOMs, work orders, inventory, purchase, quality, maintenance and related applications around your requirements.
Extend Odoo where standard functionality does not meet a specific requirement, and integrate it with the systems you already run. See Odoo customization and Odoo integration.
Prepare and migrate relevant products, BOMs, inventory data, vendors, customers and other business records. Moving from an older version? See Odoo migration.
Validate manufacturing workflows, resolve issues and train users before deployment. See Odoo training.
Deploy the configured solution and provide ongoing support and optimisation after launch. See Odoo support & maintenance.
We do not publish one implementation price, because the same app list costs very different amounts depending on the six factors below. We do publish what moves the number — and we fix the price in writing before work starts.
Manufacturing processes differ from one business to another, so a successful Odoo implementation starts with your operational requirements — not a generic module list. OdooBots designs and implements an integrated ERP environment across production, BOMs, work orders, inventory, purchasing, sales, quality, maintenance and reporting.
Every product capability stated on this page is documented by Odoo. The configuration advice and the limitations come from our own implementations.
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