How Odoo Can Help You Integrate Your Supply Chain

This article sums up the ways an Odoo ERP solution can integrate the different activities of a business’s supply chain and help in streamlining and accelerating the products delivery.

Inefficiencies in the supply chain are inevitable in every manufacturing business. It is due to such inefficiencies that manufacturers or businesses face time lags in the delivery of the products to the end customers. However, eminent business management platforms like Odoo brought powerfully-built tailored ERP solutions to help enterprises consolidate all supply chain activities leading to productive efficiency. Odoo, an all-in-one business management application is powered with extensive supply chain management module that enables the manufacturers to have complete transparency, visibility over their supplies and inventories. This consequently helps them respond to market situations timely.

However, different industries have different processes or operations and so does their supply chain activities. Hence, there is a need for an expert Odoo consultant with rich knowledge of industries to propose the type of ERP solution that caters to your specific supply chain operations.

Here are the probable great results that a business can enjoy with an ERP solution for supply chain management.

Scheduling of supply chain activities

Supply chain planning helps in streamlining the marketing channels, organise or schedule supplies, strategise for promotions and regulate the inventory stocks to ensure supply is as per the market demands. In other words, the ERP also provides a hassle-free way to make changes to the supply chain to keep it in line with the market demand.

Helps in assessing vendor performance

While earlier, businesses have no way to evaluate what the vendors are supplying, i.e. the quantity or quality of the products purchased, now they will be able to do that. Consequently, it helps the purchasing departments to better decide on the next orders, select suppliers or vendors with good products quality or consider a switch to better suppliers.

Results in uniform visibility

There are many agents in the purchasing and sales department but not all the access to the information on supply chain activities. The ERP solution provides them with a single concrete platform to have through and out details of what’s happening in SCM, goods stock in the inventory, and so forth. This evidently allows the businesses to better plan their successive production.

Brings collaboration among vendors and distributors

As one unified database and functional platform, the ERP brings all agents in the supply chain, including distributions and third-party suppliers in closed collaboration. This gives the opportunity to the manufacturers or businesses to remain informed about the progress of the supply operations. They can view when a task starts and is completed, who is handling a operation at a time, whether executives are present for operations in the next stage and so on. All in all, ERP bridges the gaps between the agents in the supply chain.

Prevents delays and risks

Poor business relationship fosters from delayed delivery of products or inappropriate supplies of the products. ERP will help them dealing with both. By integrating all activities and keeping them in collaboration, it ensures that production is in line with the demands will result in on-time delivery across the chain and that too in appropriate quantities.

These will so far help manufacturing businesses understand the importance of implementing ERP solution into their supply chain management. While good businesses foster with great collaboration, ERP will help manufacturers to cement great communication between the suppliers and speed up the delivery system.

Alex Forsyth is an eminent Odoo consultant working at Envertis, a top-rated ERP solutions provider in Australia who has rich industrial insights and suggests businesses on the best ERP solution suiting to their specific needs.

Alex Forsyth is one of the expert app developers in Sydney who is working for Envertis, an earmarked Australian company for mobile app development which has been delivering dynamic and revenue-centric apps to businesses.