Inaccurate bills of materials
Recipes and assemblies exist only in engineers' files or operators' heads, with quantities and scrap allowances that don't match reality.
Odoo ERP · Manufacturing (MRP)
Odoo manufacturing implementation for planned, traceable production
We turn your recipes, assemblies and shop-floor steps into bills of materials and routings, so Odoo can plan components, schedule work and cost each order.
What is Odoo Manufacturing?
Odoo manufacturing implementation is the setup of Odoo's Manufacturing (MRP) app to plan, execute and cost production. It covers bills of materials, work centers, operations and routings, manufacturing orders and work orders, component replenishment, by-products, subcontracting and the costing that flows into inventory valuation. With MRP connected to Inventory, Purchase and Sales, demand from orders and stock rules drives what gets made and what gets bought.
Many manufacturers plan production on whiteboards and spreadsheets that only the planner fully understands. Components run out mid-batch, finished-goods costs are estimated once a year, and nobody can say quickly which raw material lot went into which shipment. Odoo MRP can fix this, but production data is demanding: inaccurate bills of materials or unrealistic work-center capacities produce plans the shop floor ignores.
Where production planning breaks
Component shortages
Production starts before anyone checks whether every component is in stock, leading to stopped lines and rush purchases.
Unknown production cost
Material, labor and machine time aren't captured per order, so pricing decisions rely on old estimates.
No lot genealogy
When a quality issue appears, tracing affected raw material lots to finished products takes days of searching paperwork.
Our Odoo Manufacturing service
Bill of materials modelling
Multi-level BoMs, kits, phantom assemblies, by-products, variant-specific components and scrap factors, validated with your production team.
Work centers and routings
Work centers with capacity, working hours and costs per hour, and operations with expected durations so work orders can be scheduled realistically.
Planning and replenishment
Make-to-order and make-to-stock strategies, reordering rules for components, and the Master Production Schedule (Enterprise) where forecast-driven planning is needed.
Shop floor execution
Work orders, operator instructions, component consumption and output recording, using Odoo's shop floor interface where your edition and version provide it.
Subcontracting and outsourcing
Subcontracting BoMs that send components to a subcontractor and receive finished goods back, with costs captured correctly.
Costing and traceability
Production cost from components and operations flowing into inventory valuation, and lot or serial tracking from raw material to finished product.
Included capabilities
- Multi-level bills of materials
- Kits and phantom BoMs
- By-products and scrap tracking
- Work centers with capacity and cost
- Operations and routings with durations
- Manufacturing and work orders
- Component availability checks
- Subcontracting
- Unbuild orders
- Lot and serial genealogy
What Odoo Manufacturing changes for your business
Fewer stopped lines
Component availability is checked before orders are released, and shortages generate purchase proposals.
Real production cost
Material and operation costs per order show what each product actually costs to make.
Traceability on demand
Lot genealogy answers which inputs went into which outputs in minutes.
One plan for everyone
Sales, purchasing and production read from the same orders and stock levels.
Where it makes the biggest difference
Discrete assembly
Furniture, electrical goods and equipment with multi-level BoMs, work orders and serial tracking.
Process and batch production
Food, chemicals and cosmetics produced in batches with lot tracking, by-products and expiry dates.
Make-to-order workshops
Each sales order triggers its own manufacturing order and component purchases.
Outsourced production steps
Printing, plating or packing handled by subcontractors while stock and cost remain visible.
From the production floor to a working MRP
Bills of materials are verified against real consumption before go-live.
Production walkthrough
We follow a product from raw material receipt to finished-goods storage, by video walkthrough or on site by arrangement, noting every step and decision.
Collect and verify BoMs
Bills of materials and routings gathered from engineering and checked against actual consumption.
Design planning
Replenishment strategy, work-center capacities and the level of shop-floor detail agreed.
Configure MRP
BoMs, work centers, operations, routes and costing set up on staging.
Pilot production
A few real manufacturing orders run end to end, comparing Odoo's consumption and cost with reality.
Train operators and planners
Short, role-based sessions for operators at their work-center screens, and planning sessions for supervisors.
Go live and refine
Live production with support, followed by a review of BoM accuracy and capacity settings.
What it connects to
Odoo Manufacturing
- Odoo Inventory and Purchase
- Odoo Quality checks
- Odoo Maintenance for work centers
- Shop-floor tablets and barcode scanners
- Label printers for lots and packaging
- Weighing scales
- Machine or IoT data via custom integration
Built with
Security, quality and scale
Role-based access
Operators record work orders, planners schedule, and only engineers change bills of materials.
BoM change control
BoM edits are logged, and Odoo PLM (Enterprise) can manage formal engineering change orders.
Consumption controls
Settings that warn or block when consumption differs from the BoM.
Traceable records
Each manufacturing order keeps its components, lots, operators and timestamps.
What working with us looks like
Shop floor first
We design MRP around what operators can realistically record, so data comes in reliably.
Manufacturing as a connected system
We configure MRP alongside Inventory, Purchase, Quality and Maintenance rather than as a standalone app.
Costing agreed with finance
Production costing and stock valuation are set up so manufacturing figures reconcile with the ledger.
Development when the floor needs it
Custom work-order screens, machine integrations or reports can be built by the same team.
What it costs
Fixed-price packages with the scope written down, paid stage by stage. Your project goes live once it's fully paid.
Related services, technologies and industries
Sources and further reading
Official documentation and guidance if you want to read more about this topic.
Odoo Manufacturing: questions we hear most
Is Odoo Manufacturing available in Community edition?
Yes, the core Manufacturing app with bills of materials, work centers and manufacturing orders is available in Community. Features such as the Master Production Schedule, PLM, Quality and some shop-floor tools are Enterprise-only.
Can Odoo handle multi-level bills of materials?
Yes. A BoM can contain sub-assemblies that have their own BoMs, and Odoo can create the related manufacturing orders for each level automatically or treat simple sub-assemblies as kits.
How does Odoo calculate production cost?
Odoo combines component costs with operation costs based on work-center rates and time spent, and passes the result into inventory valuation for the finished product. How detailed this is depends on whether you record work orders and time.
Does Odoo support subcontracting?
Yes. Subcontracting BoMs let you send components to a vendor, receive finished goods, and record the subcontractor's charge as part of the product cost.
How is Odoo Manufacturing related to Quality and Maintenance?
Odoo Quality adds inspection points to manufacturing operations, and Odoo Maintenance links equipment to work centers so downtime and preventive maintenance are visible in planning. Both share data with MRP; Quality requires Enterprise, while the Maintenance app is available in Community and Enterprise.
Can you integrate machines with Odoo MRP?
Yes, through custom integration. Machine counters or sensors can send data to Odoo via its API or an IoT setup, which we scope based on the equipment and protocols you have.
Next step
Plan your production in Odoo
Share a sample bill of materials and describe your production steps. We'll outline how Odoo Manufacturing would model them.