Preface

Working with Odoo provides a comprehensive walk-through for installing, configuring, and implementing Odoo in real-world business environments. This book will help you to understand the value of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and the best practices and approaches for getting a system up and running in your organization. For those who are new to ERP systems, this book will serve as an introduction so that you will be better prepared to understand more advanced ERP concepts. If you are already experienced in ERP systems, this book will give you an overview of the primary applications for Odoo and how those applications can be used in a real business environment.

Odoo is a very feature-filled business application framework with literally hundreds of applications and modules available. Silkworm, Inc. is a highly respected custom apparel, promotional products, and graphic design company in the Midwest, United States. Silkworm has been serving its customers, team members, and community for more than 30 years. Silkworm has been kind enough to allow us to include some basic aspects of their business processes as a set of real-world examples on implementing Odoo into a manufacturing operation. While the examples in this book are extremely simplified, using real-life examples will assist in understanding how to utilize Odoo to solve real-world business problems.

Although Silkworm is actively implementing Odoo, Silkworm, Inc. does not directly endorse or recommend Odoo for any specific business solution. Every company must carry out their own research to determine if Odoo is a good fit for their operation.

We have done our best in this book to cover the most essential features of the Odoo applications that you are most likely to use in your business. Unfortunately, there are just not enough pages to cover more advanced topics. In Appendix, Locating Additional Odoo Resources, we have included additional resources that you can look to for more advanced subjects.

After the book is released, be sure to check for online updates in which we can cover more advanced subjects.

Also, Packt Publishing offers other Odoo books that cover more advanced Odoo topics.