Bouke Steemers You can't promise a reliable delivery date (and how to fix order promising) You promise reliable delivery dates by promising against available-to-promise instead of on-hand, with real lead times in the system and one calculation across sales, purchasing and production. The da... Jun 1, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers AI-assisted writing in Odoo: drafts, summaries and replies without losing your voice AI writing in Odoo earns its keep on the routine drafts (descriptions, replies, summaries) as long as you feed it the facts, check what comes back, and edit it into your own voice. The draft is the ti... Jun 1, 2026 Odoo and AI
Bouke Steemers From outside sales to a B2B portal: scaling a wholesaler without scaling the sales desk Your reps spend their day typing orders into the system that customers already know they want. Every new account adds load to the same sales desk, so growth and headcount rise together and your margin... May 29, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers Your team retypes orders between systems: what it costs and how to stop it The way to stop retyping orders is to enter each order once at the source and let it flow to every other system on its own: the ERP as the hub, and an iPaaS sync layer connecting whatever stays outsid... May 26, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers Odoo vs SAP, NetSuite and Exact for mid-market: an honest comparison The short version up front: all four can run a 20 to 200 person company. Odoo usually wins on breadth for the money and joined-up operations, NetSuite on multi-entity finance, SAP on enterprise-grade ... May 22, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers One Odoo across countries: how to run an international rollout without a patchwork An international rollout stays one system when you run a single group standard and tune it per country with Odoo's fiscal localizations, instead of letting each country build its own. Choose the deplo... May 19, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers You don't know your real margin, and month-end takes days You see your real margin when sales, purchasing, stock and accounting live in one system: the cost price updates itself from real movements, every discount and freight cost lands on the order, and mar... May 16, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers Every new order means more admin: how to grow without growing headcount You grow without growing headcount by breaking the link between order volume and admin: capture each order once at the source, let it flow to delivery and invoice without re-entry, and automate the ch... May 13, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers Your business has outgrown spreadsheets: the signs, the cost, and what to do next You have outgrown spreadsheets the moment your numbers need a person to vouch for them. The way out is one connected system where data lives once, entered at the source and read everywhere else, moved... May 10, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers AI lead scoring and sales forecasting in Odoo CRM (and how to use the numbers without trusting them blindly) Odoo's predictive lead scoring ranks your open deals from your own won and lost history, and the forecast follows from those probabilities. The numbers are usable on two conditions: enough clean histo... May 9, 2026 Odoo and AI
Bouke Steemers Why your Odoo is slow (and the practical fixes) A slow Odoo is almost always one of four things: a worker count left at the default, too little RAM for those workers, a missing database index, or custom code doing expensive work on every load. All ... May 6, 2026 Upgrades and customization
Bouke Steemers API, connector or iPaaS: how to connect Odoo to your other systems There are four ways to connect Odoo to another system: the native API, a custom module, a prebuilt connector, or an iPaaS sync layer. They are not better or worse in the abstract. Each fits a differen... May 3, 2026 Integrations and data
