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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)

Installing the Purchase application

Odoo is a modular set of applications for which you only install the applications you need. Therefore, we must install the Purchase application in order to continue. By this point, you should be familiar with the process of installing a new application in Odoo. The following is a screenshot of the Purchase application as it appears in the Apps list:

When you install the Purchase application, you will get a new purchasing menu in your toolbar.

It is possible that these menus may already exist, or that purchasing may already be installed if you have installed another module, such as eCommerce, that requires Purchase Management as a dependency.

The Purchase menu is where you can create quotations and purchase orders for the products you purchase from your vendors.

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