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.
Discrete manufacturing is one of the two broad ways things get made, and knowing which one describes your operation matters, because it shapes how you plan, cost, and run production. This piece explai...
Read postProduction planning is the part of manufacturing that decides what gets made, when, and with what. Most manufacturers do it on spreadsheets and in the heads of a few experienced people, and most manuf...
Read postMES and ERP are two of the most confused terms in manufacturing software. They are sometimes presented as competitors, as though a manufacturer must pick one. They are not competitors. They do differe...
Read postA manufacturing execution system, almost always shortened to MES, is one of the more misunderstood pieces of software in a factory. It is described as essential by some manufacturers and as unnecessar...
Read postManufacturers tend to live with the same handful of problems, and to assume they are simply the cost of making things. Most of them are not. They are symptoms of running an operation on disconnected t...
Read postERP stands for enterprise resource planning. That expansion explains almost nothing, and the term gets used loosely alongside MRP and MES until none of them is clear. This is a plain explanation of wh...
Read postOnce a manufacturer has chosen a manufacturing ERP, a second decision follows: where it runs. Cloud or on-premise. It is often framed as a cost question, and framed that way it produces a poor answer....
Read postChoosing a manufacturing ERP is a decision a business lives with for a decade. Most selection processes go wrong the same way: they start with software demos and end with whoever demoed best. This is ...
Read post"What is the best ERP software for manufacturing" has no single answer, and any article that gives you one is selling something. The honest version: there are categories of manufacturing ERP, each bui...
Read postIf you run a manufacturing business, you have almost certainly been told you need an ERP. This guide explains what a manufacturing ERP actually is, what it covers on the shop floor and in the back off...
Read postIf a question keeps coming up in your operations, it might be worth a blog post.