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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By : Greg Moss
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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

Odoo is an all-in-one management software that offers an array of business applications, forming a complete suite of enterprise management applications. Odoo 11 comes with advances on usability, speed, and design. Working with Odoo 11 starts with how to set up Odoo, both online and on your own server. You’ll then configure the basic company settings required to quickly get your first Odoo system up and running. Later, you’ll explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. You'll then dive into purchasing applications with Odoo, learn some of the primary functionalities of ERP systems for manufacturing operations, and use analytic accounting to provide better reporting. After that, you'll learn how to work with Odoo for mobile, and finally, you will walk through the recent Odoo 11 features with respect to the community and enterprise edition, giving you a complete understanding of what Odoo can do for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Installing the purchasing application

Odoo is a modular set of applications in which you only install the applications you need. Therefore, we must install the Purchase Management application to continue. By this point, you should be familiar with the process of installing a new application to Odoo. The following is a screenshot of the Purchase Management application in the Apps list:

When you install the purchasing application, you will get two new menus:

  • Purchases
  • Inventory
It is possible that these menus may already exist, or that purchasing may already be installed if you have installed another module, such as eCommerce, that requires Purchase Management as a dependency.

The Purchases menu is where you can create quotations and purchase orders for the products you purchase from your vendors. In the Inventory menu, you can manage physical inventories. If you take a few moments...