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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)

Creating a new employee

First, let's go ahead and see how we can add a new employee to our system.

Click the Create button to bring up the form for you to begin entering a new employee into Odoo:

The only required field in the employee form is the name. All the other fields are optional. Odoo will set the default working address to the company address. While most fields are self-explanatory, we will go over several of the more important fields in order to take them into consideration.

Department

The employee department is a common way for a company to organize employees. While we currently have Tina assigned to the sales department, we can move her to another department. In our example, we are going to create a production...