Field notes for teams running Odoo.
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Practical articles for the engineers and operators who work with Odoo and the systems around it.
A printing business produces printed work, varied jobs, almost always made to a customer's order and specification. This piece walks through how a printing business runs on Odoo. Made-to-order, job-st...
Read postA contract manufacturer produces products for other companies, to their specifications, rather than products of its own. This piece walks through how a contract manufacturer runs on Odoo. Producing to...
Read postPLM, product lifecycle management, brings the changing of products under control. This piece is about setting up PLM in Odoo, and the edition it requires. The edition point, first State it plainly at ...
Read postThe engineering change order, the ECO, is the heart of PLM: it is the mechanism that carries a product change through a controlled path. This piece is about the ECO workflow in Odoo. The edition note ...
Read postA product change rarely affects only one isolated thing. It can touch the bill of materials, the routing, and more, and managing change that reaches across them is the real work of engineering change....
Read postA product and its bill of materials are not fixed; they change over their life. Version control is what keeps track of those changes. This piece is about version control for products and BOMs in Odoo....
Read postA product is defined not only by its bill of materials but by drawings, specifications, and other engineering documents. Managing those documents is part of managing the product. This piece is about e...
Read postAn engineering change to a product should not take effect just because someone made it. It should take effect because it was deliberately approved. This piece is about approvals and sign-off for engin...
Read postMany manufacturing plants run in shifts: production happens in defined periods, by defined groups of people, and the plant's working time is structured. Managing that is shift management. This piece i...
Read postDirect labour is the work that goes directly into making a product, and it is part of what the product costs. Tracking it is part of knowing the true cost of production. This piece is about tracking d...
Read postSome manufacturers are not a single company but a group of companies, and production and supply can cross between them. This piece is about intercompany manufacturing in Odoo. What intercompany manufa...
Read postLean manufacturing is a philosophy of eliminating waste. A system like Odoo can support lean practices, but it cannot do lean for you. This piece is about lean manufacturing practices in Odoo, honestl...
Read postIf a question keeps coming up in your operations, it might be worth a blog post.