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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By : Greg Moss
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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

Odoo is an all-in-one management software that offers an array of business applications, forming a complete suite of enterprise management applications. Odoo 11 comes with advances on usability, speed, and design. Working with Odoo 11 starts with how to set up Odoo, both online and on your own server. You’ll then configure the basic company settings required to quickly get your first Odoo system up and running. Later, you’ll explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. You'll then dive into purchasing applications with Odoo, learn some of the primary functionalities of ERP systems for manufacturing operations, and use analytic accounting to provide better reporting. After that, you'll learn how to work with Odoo for mobile, and finally, you will walk through the recent Odoo 11 features with respect to the community and enterprise edition, giving you a complete understanding of what Odoo can do for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

A real-world project example for a customer

As 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 span many different 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.

In 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 have multiple teams that can vary in terms of the logo design for the team, the number of players, the sizes of the apparel required, and the printing of different players' numbers and even players' names. There...