Manufacturing
with Odoo.
Production companies run on tight margins and complex planning. Odoo connects your BOM, work centers, purchasing, and delivery in one system, visible from quote to finished product.
Yes, Odoo is a strong fit for manufacturers, as long as you want planning, stock and the shop floor in one system instead of an ERP bolted to a pile of spreadsheets. It runs the full production cycle, from bill of materials to work order to delivery, on one database, so the number on the planner’s screen and the number on the floor are the same number.
The pain we usually find
Most manufacturers we meet do not lack software, they have too much of it: a legacy ERP for finance, spreadsheets for planning, paper work orders on the floor, and a separate tool for stock. Every handover between them is a chance for the numbers to drift. The result is familiar: planning that is already out of date by the morning, stock that is right in the system but wrong on the rack, and a shop floor that works from paper because the screen in the office never reaches the line.
Which Odoo modules do the work
The core is Manufacturing (MRP): bills of materials, multi-level products, work orders and capacity planning. Inventory adds lot and serial tracking, so every move from goods-in through production to delivery is traceable. Purchase, Quality and Maintenance slot in around it, and the Subcontracting module extends traceability to third-party production. For most mid-sized manufacturers this standard stack covers how the work is planned and tracked, with no custom code.
Where standard stops, and Updoo starts
The gap is rarely planning, it is the floor itself. The standard work-order screen is built for a desk, too dense for a tablet between two steps with gloves on. That is why we built Updoo Shopfloor: a full-screen, glove-friendly tablet layer that took one 40-person team from paper work orders to zero and lifted on-time completion by 11%. When the standard scheduler is not enough, finite and constraint-based planning sits on top as a focused module, reading the same Odoo data.
Read: AI in this sector
Everyone talks about AI. But what does it actually get you in a manufacturing business? It works best on your own numbers, and you already have them: your orders, stock and work orders, all in Odoo.
On that base, forecasting, predictive maintenance and reading documents stop being pilots and start paying back. And because building is much faster with AI in the loop, things that used to be "nice but too expensive" suddenly fit the budget.
AI in manufacturing: from hours of work to minutes Read articleManufacturing companies that trust us
- The Set Company
- FritsJurgens B.V.
- AgrowTeam B.V.
- Burned Wood BV
- De Vreede Techniek VOF
- Bos Polijstmaterialen B.V.
- Bio Bouw Heusden B.V.
- Mixtuur Orgels B.V.
- AMSTELLAND ELECTRONIC B.V.
- GenKey
- Biorefinery Solutions B.V.
- Wheel-Tec BV
- Alpine Engineering B.V.
- Enveloprint B.V.
- Color Control Group
- RGS Development b.v.
- Invent Design Beheer BV
What we use
- Manufacturing (MRP)
- Inventory
- Purchase
- Sales
- Quality
- Maintenance
- PLM
Custom without custom
Shopfloor screens your operators actually use, and a configurator that turns options into a priced quote in minutes.
Questions about Odoo for this industry.
- What Odoo modules do manufacturing companies typically use?
- The core stack is Manufacturing (MRP), Inventory, Purchase, and Sales. Quality and Maintenance are common additions. MRP handles Bills of Materials, work orders, and capacity planning. Our Shopfloor add-on (part of Updoo) gives operators a touch-friendly shop floor interface without a separate MES licence.
- Can Odoo replace our separate ERP and planning system?
- Yes. Odoo covers the full production cycle in one system: BOM management, work orders, purchasing, stock, quality checks, and delivery. Most Radical Fanatics manufacturing clients migrate from a combination of a legacy ERP plus spreadsheets. Average implementation time is 3–5 months for a 20–80 user company.
- How does Odoo handle traceability for production?
- Odoo supports lot and serial number tracking natively. Every stock move, from purchase receipt through production to customer delivery, is recorded and queryable. The subcontracting module extends this to third-party production with full traceability.
What clients in this industry built with Odoo.
Color Control Group
Color Control already uses Odoo for their business processes, on version 17. For their approval workflows they came to FANATICS specifically for our Advanced Approval module. We developed it on v19 and backported it to their v17 environment.
Read caseAMSTELLAND ELECTRONIC B.V.
Amstelland Electronic produces and distributes electronics from Uithoorn. Their Odoo implementation connects production, inventory, sales and accounting in one database, so an order from intake to invoice lives in the same system.
Read caseDe Vreede Techniek VOF
A technical services firm in Waddinxveen running sales, planning, inventory and projects on Odoo, while accounting stays in Twinfield. The integration forwards invoices automatically, with no double entry.
Read caseRGS Development b.v.
RGS Development supplies parts for the space industry. Their Odoo platform combines production, inventory, purchasing and international collaboration in one database, so every batch and every part stays traceable.
Read caseInvent Design Beheer B.V. (OneEightyOne)
OneEightyOne is an Amsterdam-based company specialising in dynamic and custom light systems for hospitality, architecture and retail. Their Odoo implementation integrates CRM, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, project management, eCommerce and accounting, in a phased roll-out.
Read caseTop Vision Group B.V.
Top Vision Group manufactures in-store visual merchandising products for the retail sector. Their phased Odoo implementation covers sales, purchasing, warehousing, manufacturing and an extensive custom label system with ZPL and PDF labels, UPS integration and automatic manufacturing order planning.
Read caseFritsJurgens B.V.
FritsJurgens makes invisible floor pivot hinges for premium doors worldwide. FANATICS built an Odoo environment that connects production, dealer orders, credit checking via Atradius, and a B2B webshop, all in one integrated platform.
Read caseStil Orthosis B.V.
Stil Orthosis produces an anti-tremor orthosis, a medical device that significantly reduces trembling in neurological conditions. In medical device manufacturing, traceability is not a wish but a requirement. Odoo with the Quality Management module gives Stil the component tracking and quality assurance their sector demands.
Read caseRhea Vendors Groep
Rhea Vendors manufactures professional vending machines and operates across three countries. FANATICS rolled out a phased international Odoo implementation covering the Netherlands, Austria, and Germany, each with local fiscal requirements and dedicated integrations.
Read 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 caseTulppack
Tulppack ran on Brincr, Exact Online and a separate webshop. Odoo replaced all three - with a B2B webshop where customers order themselves (by the metre or by the tea bag, printed with their own logo) and stock that stays correct across tricky units of measure.
Read caseManufacturing + Odoo?
Production companies run on tight margins and complex planning. Odoo connects your BOM, work centers, purchasing, and delivery in one system, visible from quote to finished product.