A Complete Overview Of Odoo ERP Customisation

Customising Odoo ERP is important to fit your unique business processes and requirements accurately. And here’s the complete overview of Odoo customisation you must know.

With more than 7 million worldwide users, Odoo ERP can be considered the fastest-growing ERP solution among businesses of different sectors. It is a complete suite of business management applications that can be customised as per every unique business needs. Odoo comes with thousands of different modules for every industry needs like sales module, finance module, accounting, eCommerce, manufacturing, eCommerce module, orders, purchase, customer relationship management module, warehouse, inventory, human resource management module, and many more. The ERP is highly scalable, which is again a plus point. Thus, the ERP can also grow with your business expansion. Moreover, the ERP is an all-in-one integrated open-source solution that makes it a cost-effective yet comprehensive software tool for businesses as well.

However, one of the most noteworthy benefits of using this ERP is that it is fully customisable as already mentioned before. Every business comes with a different set of processes and requirements and this is what makes Odoo the perfect ERP solution for every business, right from SME to enterprise and from manufacturing to eCommerce, wholesale, healthcare, etc. This customisability feature of the ERP also ensures a smooth and high performance of the business system, ensuring no integration of unnecessary modules or applications. The customisation also cuts down the cost of ERP implementation as businesses can only integrate the required modules.

Here are the different types of Odoo customisation:

• Changes in the UI or User Interface: Your business can adapt the designs of the screens to personalise the user interface of the ERP based on the user preferences or requirements.

• Functionality extension: Even in an all-inclusive ERP software solution like Odoo your business may need some functionality extensions in order to meet your specific business requirements.

• Documents, Reports, and Forms: You can modify delivery notes, order confirmations, and invoices generated by the ERP as per your business needs. And the changes can be made according to the implementation of the complicated logic in reporting and the basic layout.

Now, take a look at the reasons why Odoo customisation is important.

Identify Adaption:

Odoo customisation enables every business to impose its own unique requirements and identity on the customers and stockholders.

Process extension:

Every organisation follows a different workflow and handles different processes and this makes it important to customise the ERP accordingly to ensure more efficiency in the business system. Also, to boost efficiency, the decision-makers may need to extend the functionalities, which is also possible through proper ERP customisation.

Simplified interface:

A simple, concise, and clear interface ensures to improve productivity and makes it easy to manage the system as well. Businesses need to integrate all the required data and fields into a single unified screen by properly customising the software. This also reduces the efforts of the employees working in the organisation.

Additional features:

With the continuous advancements of technologies, it is necessary for organisations to keep updating their systems and streamline their workflow. To gain optimal usage of ERP software solutions, the organisations also need to include additional features sometimes within the system. And this is what Odoo customisation ensures.

Increases application lifespan:

Applications can be considered as the cornerstone of business processes that offers necessary features and functionalities. Customising the software can enable businesses to enjoy long-term business success, high performance, and an increase in the application lifespan.

Hence, it can be concluded that Odoo customisation is important and helps to meet every distinct business aspect. Odoo customisation helps to achieve the business objectives and goals and ensures high-performance and more efficiency in the workflow as well.

Alex Forsyth is an expert Odoo ERP consultant associated with a reputed Odoo implementation firm in Australia, Envertis Software Solutions. The author has written this article to give you a complete and clear idea about Odoo customisation to fit your business needs and operations.

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.