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Manufacturing

Bills of materials, work orders, serial and batch traceability, booking finished goods, subcontracting.

Subcontracting in Odoo: outsource a production step without losing stock control

Subcontracting in Odoo: outsource a production step without losing stock control

Outsourcing a production step without losing stock control takes one specific setup in Odoo: a Subcontracting bill of materials, the subcontractor as vendor, and resupply routes on the components. The...

Apr 20, 2026

How to book finished goods from production into stock in Odoo (and keep valuation right)

How to book finished goods from production into stock in Odoo (and keep valuation right)

Finished goods land in stock the moment you mark the manufacturing order as done, and not a second earlier. That one action consumes the components, books the product into stock and rolls the componen...

Mar 29, 2026

How to trace which components went into which finished product in Odoo manufacturing

How to trace which components went into which finished product in Odoo manufacturing

Component traceability in Odoo rests on three settings: lot and serial tracking enabled on the products, lots captured when components arrive, and component lots assigned on every manufacturing order....

Mar 9, 2026