“The screen says one thing, the warehouse another”
Every movement is tied to a document: receipt, delivery, transfer, count adjustment. When the number is off, you can see where the chain broke.
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ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
Sales, stock, purchasing, production and accounting in one database. A number that changes in one place changes everywhere.
The point of an ERP is to stop you entering the same information twice. An order deducts stock, a product hitting its reorder point raises a purchase request, and a goods receipt matches against the invoice. Odoo does this on a single database, so there are no separate programs to bridge.
What it solves
These three come up more than anything else in a first conversation.
“Nobody knows what actually makes money”
Product cost includes the purchase price, freight and customs. Margin is reported per product and per customer.
“Departments wait on each other”
Sales sees stock and the delivery date while entering the order, so nobody has to phone the warehouse.
How data moves through the company
- 01
Sales
- Quotes and orders
- Price lists
- Customer ledger
- 02
Inventory
- Multiple warehouses
- Lot and serial numbers
- Reorder alerts
- 03
Supply
- Purchase requests
- Vendor comparison
- Goods receipt
- 04
Accounting
- Invoice matching
- Bank reconciliation
- Profit and loss
Odoo modules involved
These are Odoo’s own modules. We write whatever is missing, rather than building a program from scratch.
Inventory
Multiple warehouses, bin locations, barcode counts, lot and serial tracking.
Accounting
Ledgers, bank reconciliation, multi-currency, period reports.
Purchase
Vendor price lists, automatic reordering, receipt control.
Manufacturing
Bills of material, work orders, routings and work centres, production cost.
Project
Task lists, timesheets, income and cost tracked per project.
Quality
Incoming and in-process control points, measurement logs, non-conformity tracking.
Getting it running
We watch the process on site
We spend a day each in the warehouse, in sales and in accounting. The process people describe is rarely the process that runs.
We clean the master data
This is the longest part of the migration. Duplicate product cards, dead stock and unclosed accounts all get sorted out by hand.
We run in parallel
For a month the old system and Odoo run side by side. The old one is not switched off until the numbers agree.
We hand over without walking away
Someone inside the company is trained as system owner. Maintenance and version upgrades stay with us.
Connects to
- Bank statement files
- Barcode terminals
- Online store
- Shipping carriers
- Supplier price lists
- Excel import / export
Why Odoo
One database
The modules are different screens onto the same data. No bridges to build, no data to shuttle between them.
Grows a piece at a time
Start with one module and switch on another six months later. Nothing is rebuilt, the data stays where it is.
The data stays yours
Your own server or the cloud, it makes no difference: you can export the entire database whenever you want.
Frequently asked
Community or Enterprise?
We look at your business and tell you. Community costs no licence fee, but accounting automation, production scheduling and the mobile app stay on the Enterprise side. Manufacturers usually need Enterprise, while straightforward trading runs fine on Community.
Can data come from our current software?
Yes. We import from any system we can get an Excel or database dump out of: products, accounts, open balances and stock counts. Historical transactions usually stay in the old system as an archive.
What if the internet goes down?
If the server is in your office, work continues over the local network. On the cloud, access stops, so for manufacturers who cannot take that risk we put the server on site.
Can modules be added later?
That is precisely why we use Odoo. Start with inventory, switch on manufacturing six months later and maintenance after a year. The data stays where it is and nothing is rebuilt.
Half an hour is enough to know whether it fits.
How many of you there are, what you track today and how. We talk it through and give you a straight answer. If it does not fit, we say so.
Other products
Let the next project be yours.
Tell us what you have in mind; within two working days we come back with scope, timeline and a budget.