Benefits of Odoo 14 for Manufacturing Businesses

Author: Alex Forsyth

Odoo 14 has come up with more advanced features for businesses of all sectors including the manufacturing industry. And here the benefits of implementing this new version of the ERP in a manufacturing business, shared by an expert consultant of Odoo in Australia.

Manufacturing businesses, no matter small, medium or large scale, need to be run systematically using efficient software to make sure all processes are operated seamlessly and to ensure more productivity. Manufacturing businesses have to deal with operations like reporting, sales, accounting, purchase management, inventory check, human resource management, customer relationship management, managing finances, and more. And all these need the right software system that can ensure to empower the business and run the processes smoothly, and effectively on a single and unified platform.

And here comes the role of an all-in-one integrated ERP like Odoo. Odoo’s latest version that is Odoo 14 has now come up with a pool of improved modules and features for streamlining businesses and for efficiently managing its processes including: -

  • Planning
  • Scheduling
  • Procurement of material
  • Managing Orders
  • Process management
  • Product life cycle management
  • Management of BOM and the other manufacturing business areas
Why Odoo 14 for managing manufacturing businesses?

Odoo simplifies all the manufacturing processes using its modules and applications. With the customised modules of version 14 of the ERP, manufacturing business users can automate the business functionalities within a unified platform. And this version is also available in both the community and enterprise editions, which means you can go for either the licensed edition or the free open-source version of the ERP. However, if you go with the Enterprise Edition of the software, you can get the benefit of using more features in the manufacturing module of the ERP as compared to the community edition.

Manage orders:

With the growth of a manufacturing business, managing huge volumes of orders manually get more difficult. That’s when a manufacturing business should embrace the power of Odoo ERP. In a manufacturing business, you need to manage several processes, one of the most significant ones being order management that includes managing work orders, repair orders, etc. An ERP software like Odoo version 14, helps to manage all orders and products effectively regardless of the volume of the order that needs to be managed. ERP automates the process of order management and makes order management smooth and much more efficient, unlike the manual order management process.

Offers support for planning and scheduling:

Now, you can use Odoo 14 for planning and scheduling all your manufacturing business activities and can make things easier than before.

Product management:

With the expansion of every manufacturing business, the production level also increases and product management becomes more difficult when it is done manually. If done manually, users will have to invest a huge lot of effort and time to list out the semi-finished as well as the finished products. But ERP software automates such processes and makes it easy to manage products, product variants, scraps, and by-products.

Maintenance management:

Being an industry that depends on a wide range of machinery that need regular maintenance services, every manufacturing business must make use of software or tools that can help them with efficient maintenance management of these machines. ERP solutions like Odoo 14 can help in integrating all manufacturing processes with proper maintenance. The ERP can also ensure timely maintenance of all the machines, ensuring proper performance and running of these machines for improved production and manufacturing.

Apart from these, Odoo 14 has many more modules and applications that help with easier reporting, faster production, quicker decision-making, better forecasting, improved supply chain management, giving quality alerts on all work orders, BOM, and more.

Manufacturing ERP software like that of Odoo 14, can act as the complete solution for managing all manufacturing business activities. The ERP automates processes and saves more time and effort, reducing errors at the same time. Overall, a perfect manufacturing ERP like Odoo version 14 ensures to streamline all manufacturing business operations, managing all processes more effectively and seamlessly. Moreover, Odoo 14 proves to be a very cost-effective software solution that allows businesses to invest in a single and unified software to manage all their business tasks.

Alex Forsyth is an experienced consultant for Odoo in Australia, associated with one of the most reliable ERP implementation partners, Envertis Software solutions. The author has written this article to let you know more about what Odoo 14 has come up with for the manufacturing businesses now.