Odoo MRP: manufacturing software for industrial SMEs, without spreadsheets
Odoo Manufacturing (MRP) organizes all the production in your plant in a single system: bills of materials, manufacturing orders, work orders, work centers, planning and actual costs. Every operation is recorded and connected to the warehouse, purchasing and accounting, without duplicating data across programs.
It is the application Anubía specializes in: we have been an Odoo Silver Partner since 2012, we have completed more than 150 Odoo implementations, many of them in industrial companies (for example, in the automotive supplier sector), and our team includes industrial engineers who speak the language of the plant.
What you can manage with Odoo Manufacturing
Everything a factory needs to plan, produce and control, integrated with the rest of Odoo.
Bills of Materials (BoM)
Multi-level product structures, variants, kits and operations, with the cost calculated from components and times.
Manufacturing and work orders
Launch orders from sales or from the scheduler, split the work by operation and record production step by step.
Planning and capacity
Automatic replenishment, order calendar and capacity per work center. The Gantt view for drag-and-drop rescheduling is part of Odoo Enterprise.
Lot and serial number traceability
Know which component went into each finished product and generate the traceability report in one click.
Subcontracting
Send components to a vendor who manufactures for you and receive the finished product with its cost.
Quality, PLM and maintenance
Control points on the line, engineering changes to bills of materials and machinery maintenance connected to production (Odoo Enterprise features).
Production schedule and work orders: from the office to the shop floor
The Odoo scheduler calculates what to manufacture and when based on sales orders, available stock and replenishment rules. Work orders are distributed by work center and you can view them in a calendar; with Odoo Enterprise, also in a Gantt view that you can reschedule by dragging.
On the shop floor, operators start and stop operations, record quantities, declare scrap and consume lots directly from the work order. With Odoo Enterprise they do it on the Shop Floor screen, designed for touch tablets, and with the barcode app.
What Odoo MRP covers: from the bill of materials to the actual cost
This is what Odoo Manufacturing includes in version 18:
Three types of bills of materials. Manufacture (consumes components and generates stock of the product), kit (broken down into its components when sold or delivered, without a manufacturing order) and subcontracting (a vendor manufactures with your components). With multiple levels, variants and by-products.
Operations and work centers. Each operation has its work center, standard time and instructions; each work center has its schedule, capacity, cost per hour and OEE indicator (productive time versus blocked time).
Manufacturing and work orders. The manufacturing order reserves components and records what is produced; work orders split the process by operation and record actual times.
Planning. Replenishment rules and the "Manufacture" route, including make-to-order, generate orders based on sales and stock. The Master Production Schedule (MPS), for planning with weekly or monthly forecasts, is part of Odoo Enterprise.
Subcontracting. Shipping of components to the subcontractor and receipt of the finished product with the cost of the service included.
Traceability. Lots and serial numbers from raw material to customer, with scrap and unbuilds recorded.
Production costs. BoM structure and cost report and a summary of each order with expected versus actual cost. With automated inventory valuation, each order generates its journal entries in Accounting.
How manufacturing fits with Inventory, Purchase, Quality and Maintenance
Inventory and Purchase
Components leave the warehouse in one, two or three steps (pick components, manufacture and store the finished product). Whatever is missing becomes purchase requests in Odoo Purchase through replenishment rules or the make-to-order route.
Quality
Control points at receipt, at a specific operation or when the order is finished belong to Odoo Quality, which is an Enterprise app. Without it, you can only leave instructions on each operation.
Maintenance
Odoo Maintenance manages equipment, preventive and corrective maintenance. For a breakdown to block the work center and be reflected in production planning, you need the Manufacturing-Maintenance integration, which is part of Enterprise.
Odoo Community or Enterprise for manufacturing
What Community includes
Bills of materials (manufacture, kit and subcontracting), operations, work centers with OEE, manufacturing and work orders, automatic replenishment, traceability, scrap, unbuilds and cost reports.
What Enterprise adds
Gantt planning, Master Production Schedule (MPS), shop floor screen for operators, PLM with engineering change orders, Quality with worksheets, integration with Maintenance and barcode app.
How we decide it with you
If you make to order with few operations and recording is done by the technical office, Community may be enough. If operators need to record on the shop floor, or you need capacity planning or quality control, Enterprise pays off. Check the licenses on the official Odoo page.
Odoo Manufacturing implementation with Anubía
We start with your processes, not with the screens: we analyze how you manufacture today, define realistic bills of materials and routings, and configure the warehouse so that production and inventory work together. Then we train the technical office and the shop floor separately, because they use Odoo differently.
If you want to see how we do it, read the case study of Texas Controls, a manufacturing company that replaced its custom ERP with Odoo, or the guides on our blog about types of bills of materials, manufacturing orders y three-step manufacturing.
We serve companies throughout Spain, on-site in Galicia and remotely in the rest of the country, with ongoing support once the factory is up and running.
Our method for implementing manufacturing, step by step
Beyond the general method for Odoo implementation, manufacturing involves decisions that are best made early because they affect everything else:
Process map. What you make to stock and what you make to order, where the bottlenecks are and who records each piece of data today.
Bill of materials modeling. How many levels, which semi-finished product has its own stock and which is a kit, variants or separate references, units of measure and waste. This is the decision that weighs most on the outcome.
Master data. Products, vendors and work centers with realistic costs and times. If you are coming from another system, we plan the data migration and clean up the data before importing.
Pilot with one product family. Real orders, comparing consumption, times and costs with what was expected, before rolling it out to the rest.
Training and go-live. Separate Training for the technical office, planning and the shop floor, support during go-live and ongoing support afterwards.
Common mistakes when implementing manufacturing in Odoo
Copying product structures without reviewing them
Moving the bills of materials from the previous system as they are drags along obsolete components and incorrect waste figures: stock doesn't add up from day one.
Made-up standard times
If operation times don't resemble reality, neither will the cost and capacity Odoo calculates. Better a few work centers with measured times.
Wanting every detail at go-live
Activating work orders, lots, quality and three-step manufacturing all at once overwhelms the shop floor. First a stable basic flow, then the detail.
Real case study and manufacturing guides with Odoo
Texas Controls, an industrial company with 100 users, replaced its custom ERP with Odoo with Anubía, implementing 19 areas at once. If you want to dig deeper into how the MRP works, these are our practical guides:
- Types of bills of materials in Odoo
- Bills of materials to manufacture
- Kit-type bills of materials
- Bill of materials with operations
- Manufacturing orders in Odoo
- Subcontracting bills of materials
- Manufacturing orders and work orders
- Three-step manufacturing
- Quality control points in inventory and manufacturing
Frequently asked questions about Odoo Manufacturing
Is Odoo Manufacturing suitable for an SME with few product references?
Yes. You can start with simple bills of materials and one-step manufacturing orders, and activate operations, work centers or quality later on, without changing systems.
Does it integrate with the warehouse and purchasing?
It's the same database: when you confirm a manufacturing order, the available components are reserved, replenishment rules or the make-to-order route generate any missing purchases, and the finished product enters stock with its cost.
Do I need the Enterprise edition?
Bills of materials, manufacturing and work orders, work centers and subcontracting are in Community. Gantt planning, the Master Production Schedule (MPS), PLM, Quality and the shop floor screen are Enterprise features. We help you choose based on your process.
Are Odoo MRP and Odoo Manufacturing the same thing?
Yes. MRP (Material Requirements Planning) is the technical name of Odoo's Manufacturing app, and in practice it covers the whole cycle: bills of materials, orders, planning, costs and traceability.
What is the difference between a manufacturing order and a work order?
The manufacturing order states which product, how much and with which components. Work orders are its operations (cutting, welding, assembly…) at each work center, with their time. If you don't need to track times per operation, you can work with manufacturing orders only.
How much does it cost to implement Odoo Manufacturing?
It depends on the number of references and levels in your bills of materials, whether you track operations and times, your starting data and the edition. Odoo publishes license prices on its official pricing page; for the implementation, ask us for a quote based on your case.
Do you manufacture and want to control your production with Odoo?
Tell us what you manufacture and how you do it today. We'll prepare a demo with your own products.