Bos Cleaning & Finishing has been producing consumables for cleaning and finishing for decades: cutting and gluing based on bills of materials, three quarters make-to-order. Exact Online fell short in several areas; the company compared seriously, also looked at SAP Business One, and chose Odoo.
The challenge
A warehouse with 1,800 locations only works if pickers do not have to search. Manufacturing runs on customer orders, so sales order, bill of materials, work order and inventory have to line up. And work order planning happened outside the ERP, in vPlan, which had to stay.
The approach
The kickstart method: fit-gap first, then Sales, Inventory, Manufacturing, Shipping and Accounting. For the warehouse, a strategy with fixed pick locations and overstock locations, with automatic replenishment rules in between and barcode scanning on the floor. vPlan is connected to Odoo via webhooks, so work orders stay in sync in both systems. Smart additions such as order digitisation with OCR and automatic lot and serial numbers make the daily work lighter.
The result
One system from sales order to packing slip, with a warehouse that replenishes itself and a planning that moves seamlessly with the shop floor. The price lists with volume tiers came along from Exact, the double entry stayed behind.
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