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Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

By : Mantavya Gajjar
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Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

By: Mantavya Gajjar

Overview of this book

Odoo is a Python-based ERP system and is completely open source. Odoo is a comprehensive suite of business applications offering a wealth of functionalities that can be deployed to meet your business needs. This book will help you manage the different functionalities of your business and optimize it. You will learn in detail about the various facets of the business process such as sales, accounting, purchases, manufacturing, and inventory. We will cover each of these topics in detail and learn how Odoo handles all these tasks with much ease. With its modular approach, you will be able to build customized solutions, take advantage of the Odoo 10 system in your organization, and master basic administration. We will cover modules and applications in Odoo that will help optimize quality checks. You will also be able to customize major reporting functions for your teams and set up forms and documents for sales, purchase, inventory, and so on. By the end of the book, you will be able to use the major functionalities of Odoo 10 and fully implement them into your business.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Multiple units of measures


It is normal in business to deal with the multiple units of measure, purchase in different units, preservation in a different unit in warehouse, and sale in a different unit of measure. Odoo has a feature to manage multiple units of measure for sales, purchase, and inventory efficiently.

There are many business cases where the purchase is done in bulk to get the price benefits and the same product sale in different unit of measure, that is, purchase in pack of 1000 and sale in the pack of 6 or pack of 12, but the stored quantities in warehouse can be identified as a unit only.

Let's see how to activate the multiple units of measure feature in Odoo, purchase in big packs, stored it as a unit, and sell in small packs.

How to do it...

  1. The multiple units of measure can be activated by going to Configuration | Settings under the Purchase application. Search for Unit of Measure and select Some products may be sold/puchased in different units of measure (advanced) option...