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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

Project forecasting


For a long-term project, it is recommended that you plan future task for better allocation of key resources. This helps a project manager identify the risks in terms of unavailability of the member and resolve the issue by changing the members for the continuous progress of the project. It is a really challenging task for a manager to utilize the time of key resources for the different projects.

Up to now, we have been working with the Kanban view, which shows us the current status of the project and progress of an individual task. The forecasting feature can be enabled for the project. Using the Gantt view, we can plan resource allocation on the task for a specific duration. The planning can be done by week, month, or year depending on the length of the project.

Forecasting includes the availability of a resource from the leave management application so that when a key resource is on leave, for the critical task, we can replace the resource or the task can be delayed for...