Odoo Manufacturing (MRP) Implementation Services

Manufacturing orders and bills of materials are available in both Odoo Community and Enterprise. Several of the features manufacturers ask about most — PLM, Quality, the Shop Floor operator interface and the Master Production Schedule — are part of Odoo Enterprise, so the edition decision usually follows from the scope. Maintenance can be added where equipment uptime is a real constraint.

Most manufacturers start with Manufacturing, Inventory, Purchase and Accounting, then add Quality, Maintenance or PLM once core production is stable. We check each feature against your edition and version before it enters the scope.

• Manufacturing: BoMs, orders, planning
• Shop Floor: operator tablet view
• Quality: control points & alerts
• Maintenance: equipment & requests
• PLM: engineering change orders
• Inventory & Purchase: components

Planning, purchasing, costing and traceability all read from the bill of materials. Odoo supports multi-level BoMs, where sub-assemblies have their own BoMs, as well as kits that explode into components on sale, BoM lines that apply only to certain product variants, and by-products from the same run.

Most problems come from data rather than configuration: wrong units of measure, duplicate components or out-of-date spreadsheet BoMs. We validate BoM data with your engineers before loading it, because fixing it after go-live means correcting live orders and stock.

Work centres represent the machines, lines or teams that do the work. Each has working hours, capacity, time efficiency, setup and clean-up times and an hourly cost. Operations on the BoM describe the steps, their expected durations and the work centre that performs them, which is how Odoo turns a manufacturing order into scheduled work orders and calculates labour and machine cost.

Timing every operation gives accurate cost and capacity data but asks operators to record more, so we match the level of detail to the decisions you'll actually use it for.

In Odoo, products made in-house use a Manufacture route. Reordering rules raise manufacturing orders when stock drops below a minimum, and make-to-order products create a manufacturing order directly from the confirmed sale. The Master Production Schedule, an Enterprise feature, adds a planning grid for forecasting demand and setting production quantities by period.

Manufacturing can run in one, two or three steps — picking components, producing, storing finished goods — depending on your stores and lines. These routes are shared with Odoo Inventory, so we design them together.

Quality control points trigger pass/fail checks, measurements or instructions at chosen steps, and failed checks raise quality alerts. Maintenance records equipment, schedules preventive work and logs corrective requests, so planners see downtime alongside production.

PLM manages engineering change orders: a proposed BoM or routing change passes review and approval stages before a new version takes effect, with a history of what changed and why — useful wherever customers or regulators expect that record.

The main factors are the number of products and BoM levels, how many operations you track, lot or serial tracking, the scope of quality, maintenance and PLM, shop floor hardware, integrations and the state of your product data. Odoo licence costs are separate.