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Working with Odoo

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Working with Odoo

Overview of this book

With this practical guide, you will cover the essential modules to get Odoo up and running for your company. After installing Odoo, you will use its sales management application to enter quotes, create sales orders, and invoice customers. You will then learn how to integrate the CRM application to manage your leads and convert them into lucrative opportunities and sales. Next, you will set up your own purchase management system, assigning products to suppliers and tracking orders with the new warehouse management and routing system. Finally, you will learn how to use analytics to track project expenses and keep your accounts simple and easy to maintain and build an Odoo module to extend its functionality and make it work for you. Working with Odoo covers all the core installation and usage functionalities of this popular tool, helping you to fully implement a working ERP system through practical, advanced, real-world examples.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Working with Odoo
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building your bill of materials


A bill of materials, or BOM as it is commonly called, is essentially a list of products that are required to produce another product. You can think of it as the list of ingredients for a recipe. Odoo needs to know what materials are required for us to produce this Class of 2014 T-shirt product.

In complex products, a bill of materials can be nested. For example, it might take many products to make a subproduct and then several subproducts to make a final product.

Tip

Don't let nested BOMs intimidate you. Once you understand how a simple BOM is processed, you will more easily see how you can group parts together. Think about grouping more complex BOMs by assembly and work centers. This makes it easier to see your inventory in real time as BOMs can be processed at each stage of your operations, properly using up materials and creating finished subassemblies.

For our first bill of materials example, we will be keeping the bill of materials simple. We are just going...