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Very simple to use, many options are available to fit your manufacturing process.
Able to use Make to Order, Make to Stock, Bill of Materials, Ship as a kit (consumable products), etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A little confusing to someone not used to using a manufacturing program, the terms and functions are not 100% user friendly, but once you understand the process it is fairly simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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The MRP seamlessly integrates into the other odoo apps that are also a part of Odoo ERP. In version 14 the sales app was updated to allow for configurable items. The MRP system generates the work order according to the rules in the BoM and the customer's selections for a given product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
In version 13 it is sometimes difficult to establish prioritization of materials that you have more than one demand that combined exceeds the on-hand availability, but they have fixed this in version 14. Also in version 13 the sales app was not as easy to use with configurable product, but they have fixed that in version 14 also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The straight forward nature of the software and how it is linked with all of the other modules.
The ability to keep up with serial numbers or lots.
Reservation of inventory to all of the products on the line items.
Being able to link inventory items to the breakdown of components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Cannot do multiple serial numbered items in a range. i.e SN 0001 through 0100.
You have to do them one by one to assign serial numbers correctly.
Would like to have the ability to import a serial number range, or enter a serial number range and assign all the serialized items/lots to the manufactured products.
Also would like to be able to keep track of lot numbers and export a breakdown of what items are in a certain lot number or manufacture date range. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The Master Production Schedule to help the Production manager with the Daily/Weekly Production plan of products.
The system automatically showcases the forecasted stock to be produced & gives a feature to maintain safety stock in your warehouse. On top of that, the Manager has an upper hand to add up the quantities to be produced considering the Market trend & any upcoming event.
The planning screen facilitates the manager to populate the required Manufacturing orders & Procurement orders if there is Raw material shortage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The enhancements can still be made on calculating the Total cost price of manufactured products not from BOM but also by adding the utility charges incurred by the company in manufacturing the products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Out of the box, Odoo works great, and with its inventory and sales integration, products can be manufactured when sold or when stock is needed. This allows for per-product flexibility and can adjust to business needs very well. The manufacturing app allows for complex bill of materials as well as nested bill of materials.
Compared to other manufacturing applications, Odoo excels at providing a solution to complex situations as a very reasonable price. Odoo also allows for customizations, which other software doesn't. Because it's open source, there is a ton of resources out there that instruct how to customize as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lots of configuration is needed, but I'm not sure if that is avoidable due to the complexities of manufacturing in general. It takes a lot of time and effort to get the products and manufacturing steps created but once you have your configurations set and properly tested, then the workflow is fairly seemles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Once all your BOM's are set up, it's incredibly easy to create and manage a series of manufacturing jobs. Being able to set things up in advance and see how it is effecting the overall inventory is really helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The only downside I've experienced is some inflexibility when the results of a manufacturing job are more or less than expected. Updating the quantity produced from an MO then alters the materials used, which may not be necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Uses simple min/max to create orders (which works for us because we have no real seasonality).
BOMs are easy to understand.
Does not require you to create/follow process steps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When the system creates jobs it does not take into account routes. Odoo uses routes to allow you to create paths through your company for individual or groups of items. For us that means that some items are inspected and some are not. When the system creates a job it does not take into account the routes for the item. So, to get routes into the job you have to cancel and recreate. One should not confuse routes with workcenters and flow of a job, they are two different things. A route is the path through the company, think receiving, then inspection, then put away. Jobs can have workcenters and if the job is set up to use them it will always follow that path regardless of whether the system created the job or it was manually created. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The accessibility and ease of customization are unrivaled. Every other solution looks like windows 95 and has a steep learning curve. This is very easy to implement and teach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Literally nothing. Everything I've used it for has been flawless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ease of use. Multiple BOMs per product. Robust IF you take the time to really get to know it. Works great if you take part A and add it to part B, not so great if quantities can vary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Larger learning curve than other Odoo apps. Little flexibility once inside the manufacturing process. For example, think baking a cake: Sometimes the number of cakes is dependent on available ingredients. If I don't have 5 lbs of flour, I can't make my normal amount of cupcakes, but I could make a smaller number. Odoo Manufacturing doesn't allow for that flexibility natively. It can be overridden, but it takes time and effort. The finished amount is also not flexible. For example, back to the cakes: one tray of cupcakes burns. Odoo manufacturing doesn't take kindly to having a different finished quantity. It does allow for you to unbuild or scrap, but you have to do the math about how much of each ingredient needs to be scraped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We do a TON of parts kits which include many of our most popular products. We actually expanded our use of kits to better sell our more obscure products that require the context of the other products in a kit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Unfortunately, there is no simple out-of-the-box way to total up the total weight of a kit. Excel can easily help work around this issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
