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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)

Using unbuild orders or a reverse BoM

Sometimes, you will have a situation in which you purchase products that must be broken down and taken into Inventory as their constituent parts. One example may be a returned product that you then wish to disassemble back into its raw parts. Note that you must have an existing completed manufacturing order to create an Unbuild Order.

Here, we have created an Unbuild Order for a Class of 2017 T-Shirt (Black) manufacturing order:

Once you click the Unbuild button to confirm the order, the white medium T-shirt that was used in the production of the original manufacturing order will be returned to Inventory.

Creating a kit using a BoM

Up until now, our BoM has been used to manufacture products...