Field notes for teams running Odoo.
Guides, comparisons, and how-tos on Odoo, ERP, and manufacturing systems.
Practical articles for the engineers and operators who work with Odoo and the systems around it.
When MRP runs, it does not only produce proposed actions; it also flags exceptions, situations where the plan cannot be satisfied as things stand. Those exceptions are valuable. This piece is about re...
Read postA manufacturer running more than one site has a planning problem a single-site manufacturer does not: production has to be planned across the sites, with the sites related to each other. This piece is...
Read postA plan is not only about quantities; it is about timing. And timing depends on lead times. If lead times are wrong, the plan is wrong about when things happen. This piece is about lead time management...
Read postHowever well a manufacturer plans, demand and supply vary. Safety stock is the buffer that absorbs that variation so production does not stop. This piece is about safety stock for manufacturing compon...
Read postEvery manufacturer faces it: an order that has to be done faster than the plan allows, jumping ahead of work already scheduled. This piece is about handling a rush manufacturing order in Odoo without ...
Read postMany manufacturers face demand that is not steady but seasonal: it rises and falls predictably through the year. Planning for that swing is a particular challenge. This piece is about production plann...
Read postOne of the clearest benefits of running sales and manufacturing in one connected system is that a confirmed sale can directly drive production. This piece is about sales-order-driven manufacturing in ...
Read postA manufacturing plant does not produce as much as its fastest resource allows; it produces as much as its tightest constraint allows. Finding that constraint is bottleneck analysis. This piece is abou...
Read postStandard costing is one of the costing methods Odoo supports, and it has a particular character that suits some manufacturers well. This piece explains standard costing for manufactured products in Od...
Read postInventory valuation connects the value of stock to the accounts. Doing it in real time, as movements happen, has particular value for a manufacturer. This piece explains real-time inventory valuation ...
Read postWhen a manufacturer buys a component, the supplier's price is rarely the whole cost of getting that component into the plant. Landed costs capture the rest. This piece explains applying landed costs t...
Read postThe cost of a manufactured product is its components plus the operations that produce it. The operations side of that cost lives in the work orders. This piece is about work order cost analysis in Odo...
Read postIf a question keeps coming up in your operations, it might be worth a blog post.