Manufacturing consists of the process of turning raw materials into finished goods or products. An organization that handles large volumes of manufacturing commodities needs to track each manufacturing order. To make sure the tracking is efficient and precise, there is a need for a well-set up system that will look after everything. Odoo, an open ERP is power packed with several features to manage the manufacturing industry efficiently. The Odoo manufacturing module is effective in handling the complex procedure of production, tracking orders, and planning manufacturing orders.
The functioning of Odoo manufacturing is quite simple to understand. Odoo manufacturing lets the end-user to create a manufacturing order of a product. Not only that, it allows them to pass different stages in the entire manufacturing process. Odoo manufacturing is capable of customizing manufacturing procedure to match the process of your company.
With Odoo manufacturing module, you can manage your scrap at any given stage of manufacturing. Generally, an organization may offer to assign different level users to look after the entire manufacturing procedure for effective management of the entire process.
Top Features of Odoo Manufacturing Module
Manage
By implementing Odoo manufacturing module, the manufacturers will have access to all the business information in a single click. With this, the lead management official can monitor and manage all the important business activities in actual time.
Manufacturing Order
Managing all your products into manual assembly or assembly lines.
Work Orders
To launch the item production in the final assembly of your products.
Repair Orders
You can also manage all the repairing of items under warranty.
Schedule & Plan
An Odoo manufacturing module offers you with overall control on inventory, streamlining production schedules, and effective coordination of distribution channels. All of these features would improve the delivery time of products, which acts as one of the most important aspect for manufacturers.
If a manufacturer deals with mass production, he/she might have a large amount of inventory coming in and going into production. With an ERP system, manufacturers can track all the inventory accompanying by their number and locations.
Manufacturing Plans
With this, you will get a clear picture of your entire planning process. Besides this, you will be able to reschedule manufacturing too.
Organizing Work Orders
You will have the access to all the resources and could plan for your future production.
Manage Bill of Materials
Tracking the available items in stock and production time.
Deciding Flexible Master Data
Before you start your manufacturing process, it is essential to define the routing needs properly. The term routing refers to the method of creating products with the materials in the BOM. It comprises various stages and multiple work centres.
Producing multi-level BOM
It helps you set a BOM within another one for manufacturing components of a product in another Bill of Materials.
Optional Routing
Creation of new routines for work orders to arrange the production based on the routes used for it.
Change in versions
Let your products evolve. Besides this, you can add configurable options while creating orders.
Phantom of BOM
Make a phantom BOM for manufacturing and selling products in kits. You can also create it for building replacement parts.
Quality
With the help of an Odoo manufacturing module, you can a keep a check on quality checks for purchased materials prior to production. If there arises any problem, the manufacturing ERP’s quality check system will downsize the issue. With this, there will be a huge improvement in product quality and customer satisfaction.
Control Points
Here, you can automatically activate quality checks for the manufacturing department.
Quality Checks
You can place your statistical process control with ease through checks.
Quality Alerts
Here, you can organize your work with Kanban view of quality alerts.
Maintenance
An Odoo manufacturing ERP lets the maintenance order to take place for repairs and other fixes. Such orders will be allocated to the maintenance team. With the help of Odoo, this system can also automate the process of preventive maintenance by calculating statistics such as average time to failure.
Preventive Maintenance
It gives encouragement to maintenance requests automatically based on KPIs.
Corrective Maintenance
It pushes maintenance directly from the control center panel.
Calendar
You can schedule your maintenance operations with a calendar.
Statistics
Here, you will get all your maintenance statistics calculated for you.
Business Intelligence
Odoo manufacturing module also provides a detailed analysis report on your production line. Besides this, it also inspects your work centres and production’s performance. There are certain qualitative measures that Odoo BI engine can suggest to you in the manufacturing module.
Conclusion
To summarize, with an Odoo manufacturing module, you will be able to register productions, manage multiple warehouse & shipping methods, scan products based on their lot and serial numbers. Not only that, your employees will also be able to manage their worksheets and create quality check alerts.
Odoo manufacturing ERP will provide you with detailed reports of your entire manufacturing process. It will help you in maintaining the product quality and improve delivery time.
