Odoo Inventory: Complete Guide from Basics to Advanced

Explore warehouses, locations, and operation types in Odoo inventory: define warehouses and mandatory locations, configure shipments, and learn one, two, or three steps of receiving and delivery, plus automatic replenishment.

Understand Odoo inventory locations across warehouses and types, including view, internal, vendor, customer, production, and transit locations, and how source and destination drive transactions.

Explore how Odoo inventory automatically manages four operation types—receipt, delivery, internal transfer, and manufacturing—grouped by warehouse, with sequence numbers, return types, and serial or lot controls.

Configure storage categories and putaway rules to automate item placement in warehouses, enforcing weight and quantity capacities and using rules to direct receipts to the correct racks.

Explore routes and rules in Odoo inventory by understanding auto-generated routes, rules, push/pull actions, and multi-step receiving and delivery workflows across warehouses.

Organize products into hierarchical categories and subcategories to improve reporting and identify profitable categories. Configure category-level accounting and removal rules, and apply standard price, FIFO, or average cost valuations.

Explore product attributes in Odoo Inventory, including sizes and colors, how to create and assign attributes, and how instant, dynamic, and never variant creation affect variants and sales orders.

Define and relate units of measure in Odoo inventory, including kilograms and grams, for accurate conversions. Configure package types like palettes with dimensions and weight limits to organize items.

Create products from scratch, selecting type and enabling inventory tracking. Set on-hand quantity, serial/lot tracking, pricing, vendors, and invoicing policies (ordered vs delivered) with price lists and packaging.

Enable the lot and serial numbers feature in settings. Assign serial numbers to products and track inventory by unique identifiers using either create new during receiving or use existing ones.

Bundle items into packages to move as one unit between locations, from vendor receipts to deliveries; create packages before or during transactions and use them in purchases, transfers, and deliveries.

Explore practical inventory operations in Odoo ERP by processing receipts, deliveries, and internal transfers, linking purchase orders, managing back orders, and handling returns and delivery orders.

Understand how to process deliveries in Odoo inventory by creating delivery orders from sales orders or directly from inventory, and manage picking, stock locations, schedules, and back orders.

Explore internal transfers in Odoo inventory by creating transfer orders, selecting operation type transfer, specifying source and destination locations, and validating moves between warehouses.

Enable and use batch and wave transfers to group and process multiple receipts and transfers, track by operation type, and manage items within transfers for large inventories.

Explore how physical inventory adjustments in Odoo track actual counts against system on-hand quantities, use virtual inventory adjustments, and update item quantities across locations.

Learn to create a scrap adjustment by selecting an item and quantity, adding a scrap reason such as defects, and optionally enable replenish quantities to auto‑generate a replenishment order.

Define landed costs as service-type charges, such as transportation and customs, in purchases. Allocate these costs across items via equal, by quantity, by cost, or by weight/volume, with valuation adjustments.

Explore replenishment in stock management using minimum and maximum reorder points and forecasted quantities to trigger procurement. Learn to create RFQs automatically, snooze options, and interpret forecast versus on-hand stock.

Explore inventory reporting, including stock, locations, moves history, and valuation, to read on hand, free to use, and forecasted quantities. Analyze the overview dashboard to manage receipts.