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Learn Odoo

By : Greg Moss
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Learn Odoo

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

Odoo is management software that contains a set of open source enterprise management applications that help you modernize your business. Completely revised and updated, this comprehensive Odoo guide is a fourth edition of Working with Odoo. This book begins with an introduction to Odoo and helps you set up Odoo Online in your system. You'll learn how to start a new company database in Odoo and the basics of Odoo sales management. You will explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. Moving on, you'll learn how to install the purchasing application, set up suppliers, and begin purchasing and receiving products in Odoo. Next, you'll learn how to use the MRP module to create, process, and schedule the manufacturing and production order. Once you get to grips with the basic applications, you'll uncover how to customize Odoo to meet the specific needs of your business. You'll learn some advanced techniques for searching and finding information, and you'll be taken through business intelligence in Odoo. Towards the end of the book, you'll go in-depth into Odoo's architecture and learn to use Odoo's API to integrate with other applications. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to use Odoo to build enterprise applications and set up the functional requirements for your business.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Purchasing with Odoo

In this chapter, we start getting into what could be considered the core functionality of most Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. We will begin by setting up a vendor and then purchasing raw-material components. After the products arrive, we will receive the products in our inventory and pay the invoice in order to complete the purchasing cycle.

The topics we will cover in this chapter include the following:

  • Examining a typical purchasing process for a business
  • Setting up your vendors and warehouse locations
  • Entering a quote and turning it into a purchase order
  • Receiving products from your vendors
  • Paying invoices
  • Understanding units of measure for placing bulk orders