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.
Manufacturing businesses rarely decide on a single day that they have outgrown their system. It happens gradually, and it shows up not as one event but as a set of recurring symptoms that the team slo...
Read postManufacturing ERP implementations fail often enough that the fear of failure shapes the whole decision. But they do not fail randomly or mysteriously. They fail in a small number of recognisable ways,...
Read postManufacturing ERP is usually sold in the language of management: visibility, cost control, faster month-end, better planning. Those are real. But a manufacturer's leadership should also ask a differen...
Read postFor a great many manufacturers, month-end is an ordeal. Closing the books takes a week, two weeks, sometimes longer, it consumes the finance team and pulls in people from operations, and at the end of...
Read postMany manufacturers run production and inventory as separate systems, or as separate spreadsheets, without thinking of it as a problem. It is just how things grew. But the disconnection between product...
Read postIt is one of the most familiar frustrations in manufacturing. A production plan is made, carefully, by someone capable. Within a day, often within hours, it is wrong. The floor is running something ot...
Read postA great many manufacturers run their business on QuickBooks, and for a long time it serves them well. QuickBooks is capable, widely used accounting software. The question is not whether it is good. It...
Read postWhen a manufacturing owner evaluates an ERP, the question that comes first is almost always "what does it cost", and the number they reach for is the licence price. That instinct leads to poor decisio...
Read postWalk any factory floor and you will find them: the side spreadsheet, the whiteboard the official system does not know about, the printout someone annotates by hand, the WhatsApp group where the real c...
Read postInventory is one of the core applications in Odoo, and for most businesses it is one of the first they rely on. This guide explains what the Odoo Inventory application does: how it models warehouses a...
Read postKnowing what the Odoo Inventory application contains is one thing; understanding how inventory management actually works in practice is another. This piece explains the practical discipline of managin...
Read postInventory valuation is the part of inventory that connects stock to the accounts: it answers the question "what is our stock worth". It is less visible than receipts and deliveries, but it matters, be...
Read postIf a question keeps coming up in your operations, it might be worth a blog post.