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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

The real-world project example


Like in other chapters, we will use a real-world example to demonstrate the functionality of Odoo's Project Management application. In the silkscreen industry, it can be common to have extremely large projects that can span across many types of apparel and print designs. For this example, we are going to create a project to manage creating an entire line of sports jerseys for an organization called Lil League.

When defining our project, it is important to look at the scope of our project and why it will be valuable to use the project manager to organize the various tasks involved. With our Lil League organization, we are dealing with multiple teams with varied logo designs, the number of players, the sizes of the apparel required, and the printing of different players' numbers and names. There are often multiple deadlines to manage and a number of people that might need to approve various phases of the project as they are completed. Using the Project Management...