Comprehensive guide for Odoo Manufacturing & Shop Floor

Create the main assembly line work center, define finished products and raw materials, then build the bill of materials and operations linked to it, referencing inventory management topics.

Organize inventory with product categories and subcategories in Udo Inventory, boosting reporting and financial clarity across physical and service items, with methods like standard price, FIFO, and average cost.

Create and manage products in Odoo manufacturing, covering goods, services, and combos, with inventory tracking, pricing, invoicing policies, vendors, and price lists for diverse customers.

Explore how to define item attributes and variants in Odoo, including sizes and colors, display types, and how instantly, dynamically, or never creating variants affects sales orders and stock management.

Enable lot and serial traceability in settings, assign to products, and create or use existing serial numbers during receiving to track items by unique identifiers and monitor on-hand.

Learn how to create a manufacturing order manually in Odoo, select a bill of materials, assign components and work orders, and progress from draft to confirmed to done.

Explore how to manage a manufacturing order from stock checks to purchasing, BOM adjustments, and shop floor execution, including component status, operation timing, and cost tracking.

Explore creating manufacturing orders with one, two, or three steps in Odoo, configuring operation types, handling BOMs, transfers, and stock locations for raw materials and finished products.

Explore manufacturing orders by calculating operation durations with fixed or computed defaults, update bill of materials, include work center setup and cleanup times, and manage allowed employees and time tracking.

Learn how to create a manufacturing order, produce all in one step, and manage component reservations with unreserve and reserve actions, including stock forecasts and on-ground realities.

Explore how to manage manufacturing orders with varying production quantities and consumption. Learn to handle setup time, bill of materials, back orders, and flexible consumption warnings.

Learn how time efficiency at a work center affects the operation duration on manufacturing orders. Use product capacity to customize setup and cleanup times per product version.

Configure by-products in the bill of material to automatically generate secondary products, such as packaging waste, and track their stock and traceability in manufacturing orders.

Explore how manufacturing orders create work orders for each operation, detailing the work center, product, quantity, and timing, and how productivity and blocking reasons affect duration.

Discover how to unbuild a finished product in Odoo by reversing a manufacturing order to decompose it into raw materials, in discrete manufacturing, using completed or unbuild orders.

Learn how to create and validate scrap orders in the manufacturing module, including scrap reasons, source and scrap locations, and optional replenishment or automatic manufacturing orders.

Explore how a kit bill of materials groups components into one item to simplify manufacturing, inventory, and sales by exploding into its parts when needed.

Learn how to implement subcontracting in Odoo manufacturing, covering BOM subcontracting, three outsourcing scenarios, and end-to-end flows from sales orders to dropshipping and delivery.

Implement make-to-order and replenish-to-order in Udo by triggering manufacturing orders from sales orders. Activate and assign route to the motorbike item and align the bill of material for on-demand production.

Configure a BOM for product variants, such as black or blue painted cardboard boxes, using variant-specific components or a single BOM with apply on variants. Orders auto-select the correct ink.

Explore how manufacturing cost in Odoo combines component, operation, and labor costs, with bom definitions and real-time cost tracking through wip and web postings.

Learn capacity planning by time-based work centers and production planning to meet demand. See planning by work center, period views, auto scheduling with alternative work centers and batch orders.

Explore master production scheduling (MPS) in Odoo, learning how to balance on-hand stock and forecasted demand to plan production and materials, with manual versus automatic replenishment and bill of materials.

Explore how reports and dashboards illuminate production performance, from bill of materials and master production schedule to work orders, overall equipment effectiveness, and weekly cost analysis.

Demonstrate an advanced make-to-order scenario by modeling a nested bill of materials for the elegance chair, with multiple work centers and replenishment-to-order triggers that start manufacturing after a sales order.

Explore how Odoo manufacturing links sales orders to manufacturing and purchase orders, automates replenishment via routes, and tracks costs from order to delivery.

Explore how the shop floor application extends the manufacturing app by processing manufacturing orders in real time on the ground, with a tailored interface for work centers, workers, and materials.