Construction & prefab
with Odoo.
Construction is moving from the building site into the factory. Walls, modules and elements are made indoors and assembled on site. That takes bills of materials, work orders and purchasing that add up, per project and per legal entity. Odoo brings it together in one system.
Yes, Odoo fits construction companies, especially builders who make part of the work in a factory. Prefab walls, modules and elements are products with a bill of materials, so the same system that writes the quote also plans production, buys the materials and books the costs per project and per legal entity.
The pain we usually find
Calculation lives in a spreadsheet, purchasing in the inbox, planning on a whiteboard and the books in a separate package per entity. Every project gets copied between them by hand. The result: materials ordered twice or too late, a factory that does not know what is next, and margins you only see once the project is long finished.
How Odoo handles it
A wall element or module gets a bill of materials. A confirmed sales order starts the manufacturing order, work orders move through the work centres in the right sequence, and the team in the factory sees on a shop floor tablet what needs to be done today. Stock components are replenished with min/max rules, one-off parts are bought per order. Multiple legal entities run side by side in one database, each with its own accounting and branding.
How we approach it
We start with the foundation: accounting and purchasing that are right, for every entity. Then a fit-gap per process, and only then the factory. That way you never redo work, and you switch on the next step when your organisation is ready for it.
See also: Software for construction companies
Builders who trust us
- Prefabio Modulair B.V.
- Bio Bouw Heusden B.V.
- Burned Wood BV
What we use
- Manufacturing
- Shop Floor
- Inventory
- Purchase
- Sales
- Accounting
Questions about Odoo for this industry.
- Can Odoo handle prefab and modular construction?
- Yes. In Odoo a wall element or module is a product with a bill of materials. A sales order starts the manufacturing order, work orders move through the work centres and the shop floor tablet shows the factory team what needs to be done. Components you keep in stock are replenished with min/max rules; one-off parts are bought per order.
- Does Odoo work with multiple legal entities?
- Yes. Odoo runs multiple companies in one database. Each entity has its own accounting, its own bank accounts and its own branding on quotes and invoices. You switch with one click and see the consolidated picture.
- Can a construction company start small with Odoo?
- Yes. Many builders start with accounting and purchasing, then switch on manufacturing, planning and projects. You pay per user and grow from there. What matters is that the foundation is right from day one, so you never redo work later.
What clients in this industry built with Odoo.
Prefabio Modulair B.V.
Prefabio builds bio-based and modular from Barneveld. Founder Jaco Kuiper started on Odoo Online himself and hit its limits. We moved his database to Odoo.sh in a single day, put accounting and inventory in order for eight companies, and are now setting up the factory.
Read customer caseGroene Bouwmaterialen
Bio Bouw Heusden sells ecological building materials through groenebouwmaterialen.nl. The outdated Odoo 15 was replaced by a fresh environment with webshop, multi-warehouse, Sendcloud and Direct Print - plus a custom import module that loads thousands of products with webshop copy from Excel.
Read customer caseBurned Wood B.V.
Burned Wood sells and produces architectural charred wood for construction and interior projects. Their Odoo implementation covers CRM, sales, purchase, inventory and accounting, with custom modules for variant pricing, price per m², multilingual quotes and a web form integration.
Read customer caseConstruction & prefab + Odoo?
Construction is moving from the building site into the factory. Walls, modules and elements are made indoors and assembled on site. That takes bills of materials, work orders and purchasing that add up, per project and per legal entity. Odoo brings it together in one system.