Odoo's Manufacturing app, often called MRP after its underlying module, handles bills of materials, work orders, and production planning, sharing the same database as Odoo's inventory and accounting apps. The planning and recordkeeping side is genuinely solid. What it doesn't solve on its own is getting real-time data from the actual shop floor, machine status, work-order progress, scrap, back into those records as it happens rather than after someone writes it down and types it in later.
A work order moves through Odoo cleanly on the planning side: materials get reserved, a routing gets followed, a finished good gets recorded. The gap is upstream of that, on the floor itself. An operator finishing a step, a machine going down, a batch coming up short, often gets noted on a clipboard or a whiteboard before anyone touches Odoo, which means the system's view of production is only as current as the next time someone updates it by hand.
Older or specialized equipment makes this worse. A business running legacy MES software or machine controllers that predate Odoo entirely usually has no path for that equipment's own data to reach Odoo automatically, so the two systems track production separately instead of one feeding the other.
We connect handheld scanners or fixed stations on the shop floor directly to Odoo's work orders, so a completed step, a scrapped unit, or a material pull shows up in Odoo the moment it happens, instead of at the end of the shift.
If a piece of equipment runs on an older MES or its own controller with no Odoo connector, we build the bridge that pulls status and output data into Odoo's production records automatically, rather than leaving the two systems to drift apart.
Tell us where the paper or whiteboard step happens in your process, and we'll scope out what's realistic to automate.
Tell us what's getting written down before it reaches Odoo, scrap, machine status, step completions, anything. We'll look at what can feed in automatically instead. And if manufacturing isn't the part of your operation that's actually slowing things down, we build automation around whatever is.
Let's talk →Yes, Odoo Manufacturing (also called MRP) handles bills of materials, work orders, routings, and production planning, sharing a database with Odoo's inventory and accounting apps so stock and cost data stay consistent across all three.
They're the same app under two names; MRP is the underlying module name from Odoo's technical naming, Manufacturing is what it's labeled in the apps menu that most users see.
Not natively out of the box in most cases. Odoo's own barcode app covers some scanning workflows directly, but connecting specialized hardware or older equipment usually needs a custom integration built against Odoo's API.
Yes, Odoo supports BOMs with sub-assemblies and multiple levels, which is part of why it handles more involved manufacturing processes reasonably well without needing a separate specialized MES for basic structure.