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Odoo for manufacturing
Warehouse, production, purchasing, sales, quality assurance, and finance in one platform, for manufacturers who want a grip on their entire production process.
The energy sector is growing faster than the systems that support it. Anyone who doubles in five years doesn't get stuck on technology but on processes that were designed for the organization of back then.
Whether you build machines, produce components, deliver projects, or make series: the challenge looks similar. Long lead times, capital-intensive products, strict quality requirements, and a market growing faster than your administration can keep up with.
What we find in this sector almost every time is a landscape of separate systems. One package for finance, another for production or projects, a warehouse system that stands apart, and quality records in spreadsheets. Each system was chosen for a reason at some point. Together they form the brake.
What makes this sector different
Four characteristics that determine how your system should be set up.
What you make lasts for years
Products in manufacturing often have a lifespan that far outlasts most software systems. Recording what was delivered where and which components it contains is therefore not an administrative choice but the basis for maintenance, warranty, and liability over the entire lifespan.
Long lead times and volatile purchasing
Components with lead times of months, prices that fluctuate, and suppliers that are scarce. Purchasing is therefore not an executional function but a planning question that needs to look ahead, and needs visibility into what's coming commercially.
Quality and certification are requirements
Not being able to show that something was checked is the same, in this sector, as not having checked it. Standards, inspections, and documentation requirements are part of the product, not an afterthought.
Project-based and series-based at the same time
Many organizations in this sector make standard components and deliver custom projects. Those are two different ways of planning, calculating, and invoicing that have to fit into the same system at the same time.
Six domains in one platform
This is the core of what we set up in this sector. Not because it's a standard package, but because these six constantly touch each other.
Warehouse management
Components, semi-finished products, and finished goods across multiple locations, with reservations per order and visibility into what's in transit. For physically large parts, where something is located matters too, not just that it's there.
Production
Bills of materials with multiple levels, operations with their own lead time, and visibility into the progress of what's in production. Including the variation that arises when every order is slightly different.
Purchasing
From need to order to receipt, tied to what's been invoiced. For items with long lead times, linked to expected demand, so you order based on the pipeline rather than on what's run out.
Sales and CRM
The commercial pipeline, from first contact to signed order, translated into what needs to be made and purchased. Especially with long lead times, that translation is the difference between delivering on time and improvising afterward.
Quality assurance
Checks done where the work happens, with records tied to the relevant component. Deviations get a status and a follow-up, instead of a report that stays sitting somewhere.
Finance
An administration that connects to everything above. No monthly reconciliation exercise between systems, and no discussion about which number is correct.
Why the connection between them is what really counts
Each of these six is available separately. The payoff lies in what sits between them.
From order to purchasing without an in-between step
A signed order that flows directly into production planning and purchasing needs. Where that happens manually, delays arise exactly for the components you don't have time to spare on.
From quality finding to resolution
A deviation that's recorded at the component where it occurred, and that gets a follow-up process you can track. That only works if quality sits in the same system as production.
From delivery to service
Knowing which components are in which delivered installation is what makes maintenance and warranty handling possible years later. That information gets created during production, or it never gets created at all.
Growing with you without starting over
The sector is growing hard. Your system needs to be able to keep pace with that growth without you facing the same choice again in three years.
More users without a brake on costs
Growth means more people in the system: technicians, planners, buyers, quality staff. We also implement on Odoo Community, where the number of users doesn't drive up your costs. Relevant as soon as large groups of employees make light use of the system.
Extensible where your process differs
What can be standard, we do as standard. Where your process genuinely differs, we build on top: as separate modules alongside the core, so that the next Odoo version doesn't mean a rebuild.
Management that keeps pace
An environment that carries your operation needs maintenance that moves with it: new locations, changed processes, annual versions. We take care of that management, so your own people can focus on the energy transition instead of their ERP.
What this looks like in practice
We brought these six domains together for an international wind turbine manufacturer, replacing multiple existing systems with one platform, within the agreed timeline and the agreed budget.
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If you recognize your own situation in this, we're happy to take a look with you at what a similar step would mean for you.
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