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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)

Creating a work center

In our previous simplified manufacturing order, we specified the raw product that's required in a BoM, and then turned that into a finished product. Now, we will expand this example to specify the human labor that goes into printing our Class of 2017 T-Shirt. In Odoo, we define parameters in a work center.

For our example, we will create a work center called Printing that is responsible for taking the blank T-shirt and applying the design to create the final product. We will begin by going to the Manufacturing application, and, under the Master Data menu, choosing the Work Centers option:

Like always, Odoo provides helpful instructions on creating a new work center. Click Create to set up a new work center record:

In our example, we have named the work center Printing. In a full implementation, it would be common to have different work centers based...