12-part guide
Most ERPs sell manufacturers a feature list. Factory managers buy outcomes, on-time delivery, accurate WIP, fewer paper travelers, and a CFO who can close the books. The twelve Odoo MRP...
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Most ERPs sell manufacturers a feature list. Factory managers buy outcomes, on-time delivery, accurate WIP, fewer paper travelers, and a CFO who can close the books. The twelve Odoo MRP features below are the ones that move those numbers for North American mid-market plants. Skip the ones your routing does not need....
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A real BOM is rarely two levels deep. Sub-assemblies, common components, and phantom kits compose into the finished good. Odoo's nested BOMs with phantom (kit) types let you model an assembly without exploding into stocked sub-products, the routing pulls components directly, but reports still show the sub-assembly...
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Time goes on the work order, not on a paper traveler. The Shop Floor module gives operators a tablet UI with start/pause/finish buttons per operation; cycle times feed actual labor cost back into the WIP valuation in real time. Eliminates the "we'll guess at standard hours" reconciliation that costs accounting two...
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The accounting team needs to know how much inventory is mid-process at any moment, valued the same way it will be costed at finished-goods receipt. Odoo's automated inventory valuation tracks WIP movements continuously, components consumed, labor absorbed, overhead applied, under FIFO, AVCO, or standard cost. No more...
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Capacity by work center exposes the bottleneck before it bites. Each work center has a capacity (hours per day, parallel batches) and Odoo computes load against confirmed and forecast orders. A simple Gantt view shows the constraint week. This alone replaces the spreadsheet a plant scheduler used to run by hand every...
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Quality Control Plans attach inspections to specific BOM operations, a failed check blocks the next operation until disposition. First-article inspection, in-process sampling, and final-inspection rules all configure as Quality Points. Non-conformance feeds straight back into Maintenance for root-cause tracking....
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Non-optional for any regulated vertical, food, medical, automotive, aerospace. Odoo tracks lots and serial numbers from receipt to customer shipment, with bidirectional traceability reports (where used / where from) and recall workflows. The configuration is standard; the discipline is operational, every transfer must...
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MPS bridges sales forecast to plant load: enter a forecast by product family by month, MPS calculates required manufacturing and purchase orders, and reorder rules trigger automatically. The standard Odoo MPS handles single-plant. Multi-plant MPS often needs a thin custom layer, but the foundation is solid....
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Most plants outsource at least one operation, heat treatment, plating, coating, machining overflow. Odoo's subcontracting tracks components shipped to the vendor, receives the processed sub-assembly back into stock, and absorbs the subcontract cost into the finished good, without breaking lot traceability. Pattern in...
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Operators are not ERP users. The Shop Floor module gives each work center a touch-friendly tile view of in-flight work orders, with bin lookups, quality checks, and consumption recording at the same screen. No mouse, no nested menus. The single biggest UX win Odoo shipped in v17+. See Shop Floor module.
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The Maintenance module tracks equipment, schedules preventive maintenance against runtime or calendar, and links corrective requests directly to the failing work center. Combined with Quality non-conformance, you get root-cause analysis on production losses without spreadsheets. Detail in Maintenance module.
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Process industries (food, chemical, metals) generate value at every output of a run, not just the main product. Odoo's by-product support records secondary outputs at the right cost basis, so margin reporting reflects reality and tax-grade yield tracking holds up under audit. See by-products and co-products.
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The PLM module versions BOMs and routings: every change is a draft revision, reviewed and approved before becoming the production master. ECOs are tracked end-to-end with reason codes, invaluable when a customer asks why their part number now ships with a different fastener. Walk-through in PLM and ECO management.
Bonus
The features matter; the partner shipping them matters more. Eight checks separate the partners who deliver from the ones who learn on your budget:
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