Role of functional consultants in end-to-end Odoo ERP implementation

Consulting or hiring an Odoo functional consultant can help in rapid business growth. Here’s what an Odoo consultant does for a business to help it grow.

Right from evaluating Odoo projects to transforming business processes into algorithmic business models, an Odoo functional consultant helps you will all. Such professionals help businesses in different aspects including customisation of processes at optimum levels to make sure Odoo ERP works correctly according to the business flow. These functional consultants also prepare a guideline or documentation to help you understand the pros and cons of different departments of your business. In simple words, you may need an Odoo consultant until the completion of a project throughout the live stages. Want to know the role of Odoo Functional consultants in businesses?

Here’s what they do to grow a business.

• Help with understanding the business processes:

Odoo consultants have knowledge about different business areas including the business design and development processes. Such professionals help you to understand these processes well along with making you understand manufacturing, trading, ERP implementation, and about the entire business flow. These are the main reasons why most of the businesses prefer to work with experienced Odoo consultants now.

These professionals sit with different departments of a business and create documentations after understanding their working procedure, workflow, etc. This is what they are hired for.

• Understand the company needs and work accordingly:

Such functional consultants understand the company's needs concerning ERP implementation and then offer Odoo ERP solutions to enhance the business processes after evaluating clients’ demands.

• Perform configurations with business needs:

Functional consultants also take the responsibility of making the software respond and react exactly like the way the client wants. These professionals always coordinate with the technical team when it comes to mapping of different business activities in a new system.

On completion of the development process, Odoo functional consultants deliver the documentation for a smooth and quick start of the software. The experts also help in understanding the other requirements that need to be implemented in different other phases of a business.

Along with these, they offer end-user training and also ensure a smooth and seamless transition to the clients. In addition to these, the consultants prepare a progress report on the workflow and do regular follow-ups to improve the business website.

However, the consultants must possess certain skills to manage everything well.

• The professional must be able to understand the logical aspects of the business and should be able to solve problems accordingly.
• Odoo consultants should possess decision-making skills to meet client requirements.
• These professionals must have strong communication skills as well. They must have good and proficient speaking and understanding capabilities and must be able to interact well with different types of people involved in the business development.
• Should have in-depth knowledge about Odoo’s security configurations.
• Must be an expert in configuring workflows
• Should have years of working experience with the Odoo software. Must be able to handle at least the past three versions of the ERP software.
• Must ensure completion of every task on time.
• Should have knowledge about different Odoo tools and to ensure efficient and smooth workflow.

With all these skills, a consultant can be able to stand up to the expectations of clients, meet the business requirements, and ensure its growth with ease.

Alex Forsyth is an experienced Odoo Functional Consultant associated with a leading software development company in Australia, Envertis Software Solutions. The author has written this article to highlight the roles and responsibilities of the Odoo consultants and reasons why every business should hire them for increased ROI and business growth.

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.