/odoo-erp/manufacturing
Odoo Manufacturing — what it does, and where teams get it wrong.
BOMs, work orders, work centres and scheduling. Most of the difficulty isn't the module — it's that the BOM in the system has never matched the BOM on the floor.
/what-it-covers
What it covers
- Multi-level bills of material, with variants and phantom BOMs
- Work orders against work centres, with capacity and time tracking
- Routings — the operation sequence a product passes through
- Backwards and forwards scheduling from a demand date
- Component consumption posted as it happens, not at close
- By-products and scrap, with their own valuation treatment
- Subcontracting, including the material you supply
- Quality checkpoints tied to operations *(Enterprise)*
/who-its-for
Who it's for
Discrete manufacturers
assembling from components where the BOM is the operational document everything else depends on.
Process manufacturers
where output is measured rather than counted, and by-products and yield variance are normal rather than exceptional.
/what-it-connects-to
What it connects to inside Odoo
/customisations
Customisations we're asked for
usually not
Bespoke scheduling logic
It's the most expensive mistake available here. Odoo's scheduling is configurable further than most teams explore, and a custom scheduler is a permanent maintenance obligation that has to survive every upgrade.
frequently justified
Custom yield and variance reporting
In process manufacturing, where the standard variance model assumes discrete output.
almost always worth it
BOM import tooling
For anything above a few hundred BOMs. It's a one-off script rather than a module, and it saves a data entry exercise that otherwise runs for weeks.
/proof
Proof
A multi-site electrical cable manufacturer where production planning had lived in one spreadsheet for six years. Routings implemented at the second site only, once the first had demonstrated the floor would record operations.
Sector. Manufacturing · Scale Two plants · Ref ref /MF-02
Link. Read the case study →
/next
Bring us a BOM and last month's production plan.
Thirty minutes, no slides. We will tell you straight if Odoo is not the answer.