The problem
A factory running its production on spreadsheets and a general-purpose ERP that did not model how the plant actually worked. Costing in particular was the weak point: what a finished product truly cost, once waste, repacking and conversion were accounted for, was not something the system could answer.
Approach
A full Odoo 16 build shaped around the plant rather than around the software.
- Manufacturing orders carrying the real bill of materials, including by-products.
- Waste tolerance modelled explicitly, so expected loss is planned rather than discovered at month end.
- Conversion cost applied per operation, so cost accumulates along the route.
- Repacking handled as its own flow rather than forced into a standard transfer.
- Cost structure reporting that shows how a finished unit arrived at its cost.
Outcome
Production, inventory and accounting run off the same records, and cost structure is answerable per manufacturing order instead of reconstructed afterwards.