Odoo ERP Solution for Manufacturing Industry
By: Braincrew Apps
Tags: Manufacturing, Odoo Development Services, Odoo Erp, Manufacturing Industry, Odoo

Manufacturing is the process of converting raw materials into finished goods or products. It is the field where every process needs to be implemented in a systematic process. Manufacturing industries contains various processes like purchasing, inventory, Human Resource, CRM, accounting etc. to be automated. To automate all this operations, ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning Software is a great option. But what if we say there is one ERP that can be customized purely according to your needs. Yes you heard it right! Odoo ERP is the answer for this. Odoo ERP is the best solution that is capable of managing entire business operations and processes for manufacturing industries.

Odoo comes with a large number of modules that helps the ERP to be customized according to the needs of the company. Odoo proves beneficial in resolving the complexity that arises in particular process. From production development to inventory management to the actual production the whole process can be streamlined with Odoo and helps in reducing time spent and cost and increases work efficiency.

Features of Odoo Manufacturing

Manage Manufacturing Process

As Odoo ERP helps in centralized management, all the information is available to the manufacturers. The information available is then utilized to monitor the ongoing process in real time.

· Manufacturing Orders: It allows manufacturers to send the raw materials to manual assembly or automatic assembly lines.

· Repair Orders: Undertake the products that are under warranty and needs to be repaired.

· Work Orders: Launch production of items needed in the final assembly of your products.

Schedule & Plan

Odoo helps manufacturers in scheduling their work and then making plans to achieve the production goal. Odoo manufacturing modules helps in proper management of inventory, effective communication among different channels, and efficient demand planning. These then helps in delivering the products on time to the consumers.

· Plan Manufacturing: Obtain a proper glance at your planning and then smoothly plan your manufacturing.

· Manage Bill of Materials: Maintain a record of availability of products in stock and production time.

· Organize work orders: Access all available resources and then plan your future production activities.

· Workcenter Capacity: Using the MRP scheduler feature of Odoo manufacturers can schedule the work at every workcenter as per the capacity.

Quality

Odoo lets manufacturers conduct the quality check for the products purchased. This then helps in reducing the quality issues.

· Control Points: Quality checks are activated automatically for the manufacturing departments.

· Quality Alerts: It allows manufacturers organize the work using kanban view of quality alerts.

· Quality Checks: Deploy your statistical process control easily with checks.

Flexible Master Data

Routing is the important process to be carried out before manufacturing. Routing basically is the process of utilizing the resources mentioned in BOM (Bill of Materials) for the creation of product.

· Create Multi level bills of materials: Set a Bill of Materials within another in order to manufacture components of a product in another Bill of Materials.

· Optional Routing: Create new routings for work orders in order to sequence your production depending on the routing used.

· Version changes: Allow your products to evolve and add configurable options when creating orders.

· Kits: Using the Kit feature, your salesperson will be able to sell products that will be delivered as a set of components to assemble.

Maintenance

Every product at some point of time requires maintenance. Orders for maintenance are sent directly to maintenance team. Odoo automates preventive maintenance with the help of calendar and statistics.

· Preventive Maintenance: Maintenance requests can be generated automatically with the help of KPIs.

· Corrective Maintenance: Corrective Maintenance can be activated directly from the control center panel.

· Calendar: Calendar helps in scheduling tasks related to maintenance.

· Statistics: Statistics helps in receiving all the data computed regarding maintenance.

Workcenter Control Panel

Workcenter refers to place for carrying out manufacturing process. Proper workcenter management will result in delivering efficient results.

· Record Production: Register details regarding production, scan products and serial numbers.

· Tablets: Set tablets on every work center to organize their work efficiently.

· Alerts: “Alerts” is used for showing quality checks or changes

· Misc Operations: From work center various products like scrapping, performance checks and quality testing can be carried out.

· Worksheets: Display worksheets directly on the WorkCentre with instructions for an operator.

Reporting

Reporting features allows manufacturers to have a clear view at the real time insights and helps in evaluating the overall performance.

· Traceability: Get full report regarding the components used in manufacturing process.

· Overall Equipment Effectiveness: Have a brief report regarding analysis of productivity, workloads and overall equipment effectiveness.

· Cost Analysis: Analyze the cost of manufacturing order based on various factors like cost of components and cost incurred for labor and raw materials.

By the above mentioned points you must have been clear why Odoo ERP is the best choice for manufacturing industries. Odoo ERP is popular because of modular approach, easy to implement and the option of customizing the software as per the user’s needs.

Braincrew Apps is a software development company providing Odoo development services. If you are the one looking for implementing Odoo ERP for your manufacturing industry then feel free to contact us.

Email: sales@braincrewapps.com

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