Odoo always has a solution ready for you. The Manufacturing applications include MRP, PLM, Maintenance and Quality are all fully integrated, you only need one system to manage the different departments where the information flows between them seamlessly preventing production delays.

Odoo covers every software need of your manufacturing organisation with a set of user-friendly and creative interface. The supply chain is kept in contact and aware of what is happening at all times.

All the departments involved in the process are immediately updated, quickly solving issues to continue production as soon as possible. With all this information in one place, it is easy sorting through it - metrics can be filtered, grouped and displayed in a histogram or pivot table.

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Routing can be added to multiple BoMs (a BoM can only have one Routing, however), by selecting a routing option - or creating one right there - in Settings, located in Configuration. They can also be created on Routings, under the Master Data menu. To be added to a BoM, a routing needs to be selected when creating the BoM or edit an existing one.

On the Settings page, tick all the options you need to properly set up your manufacturing. For instance, by-products are anything produced in addition to the primary products, and in a BoM, they can be included in the Byproducts tab.

A multi-level BoM is used when to create a product, sub-assemblies are required. Everytime manufacturing orders of the main product are issued, the manufacturing orders for the sub-assemblies are created as well. To do this, make a BoM for each sub-assembly and another for the main product, there, in the Components tab, include all the sub-assemblies.

The sub-assemblies are configured on the Products page, under Master Data. Select the product form, click Edit and tick the Manufacture and Make To Order Routes.

Companies can have more than one place to produce their products, so Odoo has work centers to help with their management. Work centers are the places where the manufacturing takes place and the work orders are performed. Under the Master Data menu select Work centers.

Click create and fill out the fields with information. Don’t forget the General Information and the Equipment tabs at the bottom for more accurate reporting. The top tabs inform you of the work center’s OEE, lost hours, performance and loads.

The work centers are listed on that page and displayed on the Dashboard, where you can see the manufacture orders in progress, perform actions or reporting and block the work center.

Click on the Work Orders button and choose one of the orders to Pause, Mark as Done or other actions by clicking on the top left menu next to the Pause button.

Odoo has two ways of managing manufacturing, one only uses one document - a manufacturing order - and the second uses multiple documents which allow for a more accurate control over the process.

The first way is the default behavior in Odoo. It’s rather simple if you don’t need a higher level of control of work orders or routings, if all of your products are produced in one place, in one step. There are two steps of planning: create the manufacturing order and record production.

On the Operations main menu, click Manufacturing Orders and create one in the new window. Your orders will be listed on that page and viewed on the Planning menu by selecting the options Planning by Production or Planning by Workcenter in a Gantt chart.

After the order is created, a new menu will appear where you can choose new actions to take. To record Production, simply hit Produce, set the quantity and click the Record Production button.

Here, make Quality Alerts and Checks (Pass or Fail the product), scrap orders, request Maintenance or mark the order as done.

The second way to manage manufacturing resides in configuring the application - tick Work Orders and Quality on the Settings page as previously explained.

This will enable additional options when creating Manufacturing Orders, such as Routings from the BoMs and workcenters. These new options will grant scheduling of work orders, access reports on costs and efficiency and access to time and capacity planning.

Under the Operations main menu, you can also access and create Unbuild Orders and Scrap Orders.

Click on Set Target on the last table line to define the number of units and the table will automatically fill the cells. Edit the Demand Forecast and To Revive/To Supply/Produce cells by selecting them.

Every time a number is added or edited Odoo updates the table immediately. By selecting the Launch Green Cells button, you will trigger production and purchase orders of all the green cells at the same time.

This feature is helpful to preview forecasts of demand and to prepare accordingly, the MPS calculates the figures using the timeline as a base.

During production, it is imperative to check on the products to make sure they’re made as they should - no defects or imperfections that compromise the usability or aesthetics of the product.

The Quality application allows you to define quality control points, check inventory after and during production. A quality control plan can be defined and be set up to be triggered in-process, final and receiving inspections. The quality department is able to manage and track PPAP submissions, configure SPC and attach PFMEA documents to routings.

In Configuration, set up your quality teams. Now in the Dashboard you can see them, their quality alerts and checks in progress. Create Quality Points under the Quality Control menu.

A new window will open, complete the fields required - to which product and step the point is needed, assign a quality team or control type. In the same menu, the Quality Checks shows the requests made during production to verify the quality of a product. Select one and Pass or Fail (or other options of the test) the product.

Maintenance is an important part to keep the business going. If something goes wrong with the equipment, it needs to be fixed as fast as possible, and have regular maintenance of the equipment as a prevention method.

Odoo developed the Maintenance application, where maintenance requests are received in real-time and preventive maintenance is automated.

The Dashboard presents your teams, indicating how many requests they have, scheduled activities, top priorities and other options for an immediate update without sorting through other menus.

The Equipment menu gives access to Work Centers (create and edit them) and Machines and Tools - create new equipment, schedule preventive maintenance (Maintenance tab), assign a team, a technician and a work center to it. In the Machines and Tools page, maintenance requests on a piece of equipment can be seen in red.

Click on the clock icon to schedule an activity.

See all the maintenance requests in the Maintenance menu. They are sorted by date (oldest in the bottom), the star icons represent the priority and the round icons assign a status to the requests.

You can easily track and get an overview of the progress of the requests and advance stages by dragging and dropping. The Maintenance Calendar allows you to schedule maintenances and see the ones already planned.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an application created for engineering management. With this app, the engineering department has access to all the products and BoMs in the Master Data menu.

Users can add new products or BoMs, as well as edit them.