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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)

Understanding the overall purchasing process

Let's begin by taking a bird's eye view of the purchasing process. Putting together a purchasing system requires several steps, and initially, it can be confusing for people who are new to ERP systems. But when you break the steps down and look at them individually, the process becomes much easier to understand.

Setting up a vendor

When you set up a vendor, you are determining the individuals or companies that are providing you with products. Sometimes, vendors are also referred to as suppliers. In Odoo, it is completely possible to create a product and sell it without implementing a purchasing system. However, to begin using your system for purchasing, you will need...