July 27, 2019 ERP

Technologies That Streamlined Manufacturing Supply Chain

By Fida-E Zaheer, Read 6 mins

Why require a software to streamline your manufacturing supply chain?

In order to sustain in the stiff competitive market, manufacturing companies invest a lot of time managing their diverse business functions rather focusing on core business.

This eventually leads to less productivity and profitability in the business sector.

A manufacturing management software comes with an ample number of features that helps in streamlining business operations, effectively transacting information across all business sectors, ultimately focusing on enhancing the business workflows.

Odoo manufacturing software is a modern solution to this age old problem. It comes with several versatile features that helps streamline your manufacturing supply chain.

No more time clocking as accurate planning could be done directly based on real manufacturing times measures.

Its all-in-one feature has MRP, Quality, Maintenance and PLM fully integrated. It allows real time communication through display worksheets, and quality alerts to workers during operations.

Its amazing shop floor automation allows you to capture data in real-time from your equipment using the API. Odoo Manufacturing has all the features you need in a single software.

Odoo Manufacturing MRP Software Features

Optimize your inventory level

Odoo manufacturing allows you to optimize your inventory level through accurate fulfillment propositions.

You can use make-to-order rules, minimum stock rules or the master production schedule to automate procurement.

You can also let the scheduler compute everything for you or use routes, constraints and lead time to optimize inventory level and avoid shortages.

Work-Center Control Panel

Odoo’s work-center control panel allows you to track time, display worksheets, register production, integrate quality checks, in process alerts, and record serial/lot number.

Barcodes, out-of-the-box

Whether you use lots, serial numbers or unidentified products, you can use barcodes to speed up operations at every step: reception control, picking, packing, work orders, and more!

Great Reporting & KPIs

All the data you need will be at your fingertips with this versatile feature. You can control your productivity with real-time Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) reports and monitor the 6 big losses of TPM.

Track maintenance KPIs like MTTR and MTBF. Create customized dashboards to monitor performance in real time.

Dynamic reports on everything from costing to traceability, performance analysis, OEE, and more help you make smarter decisions about your business.

What is Odoo PLM?

Odoo Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a solution for modern companies.

It manages engineering changes with real-time communication, has integrated document management for drawings, worksheets, and quality documents, allows smart versioning with efficient diff and merge and is fully integrated with other Odoo apps. Odoo PLM is powerful and easy to use.

Odoo PLM Features

Manage engineering changes

Managing engineering changes efficiently is all about communication. Odoo PLM harnesses the power of an enterprise social network to help you communicate more efficiently across multiple departments.

Everyone follows only what they need, approvals are simple, and discussions on documents are centralized and in real time.

Integrated Document Management

Integrated document system allows you to pass information to manufacturing with triggered alerts on worksheets or work center control panels.

Attach your documents directly to BoMs, routings or anywhere else. It can easily manage multiple versions of your documents.

Smart versioning

Forget about syncing EBoM and MBoM.

Odoo aligns every department on the same documents so you can track changes efficiently across multiple versions.

With Odoo PLM, you can work on several versions of the same BoM in parallel and apply only the differences to manage multiple changes.

Odoo Maintenance Software

Odoo maintenance software is a redesigned solution for the manufacturers. It has automate preventive maintenance to keep your line running.

It can organize your maintenance requests with great kanban and calendar views.

Increase overall equipment effectiveness with efficient maintenance. And has dashboard & statistics to optimize your performance.

Its also fully integrated with other Odoo software.

Odoo Maintenance Features

Automate preventive maintenance

Odoo computes standard statistics to help you plan preventive maintenance, including mean time between failure (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), and expected next failure date, and lets you automate metrology and preventive maintenance scheduling.

Organize your maintenance requests

Easily track the progress of maintenance requests using the kanban view. Use the maintenance calendar to organize and plan activities.

Your team will love using the fast and easy drag-and-drop interface to organize maintenance requests.

Increase overall equipment effectiveness

The manufacturing department can trigger maintenance requests directly from their work center control panel.

When your maintenance team acts, the right people will be updated in real time. Better communication reduces downtime and makes your manufacturing more efficient.

Dashboard & Statistics

Use automatically computed statistics including MTBF and MTBR to fine tune your preventive maintenance rules and reduce the risk of equipment failure.

Track performance using the dashboard, or use it to create custom KPIs in just a few clicks.

Odoo Quality Management

Odoo quality management comes with a set of efficient and versatile features:

Quality Control Points

Define quality control plans to trigger quality checks at specific inventory operations (receiving and final inspection) or manufacturing operations (in-process inspection).

Set up in-process, final, and receiving inspections based on a quality control plan.

Define quality control plans to trigger in-process, final, and receiving inspections.

Manage and track production part approval process (PPAP) submissions. Configure your statistical process control (SPC). Attach process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA) documents to routings.

Manage Quality Alerts with a great user interface

You will love organizing your quality alerts in Odoo’s clean kanban interface. Drag and drop alerts to report progress and use visual indicators to focus on critical alerts.

Use tags to categorize quality alerts and create rules to automate alerts or actions. Categorize by addressee (design, supplier, process), by requestor (customer, main line, sub line), and more.

Total Productive Maintenance to improve quality

The manufacturing department can trigger quality alerts directly from their workcenter control panel.

Once you update a requests, the right people get the information in real time. A better communication will lower your manufacturing down times and improve your team efficiency.

Who Are We?

Syncoria is a digital transformation solution based in Canada. We have been providing business solutions all over the world for over 14 years.

Odoo is one of our ready partners who specialize in integrated business solutions.

Odoo Manufacturing system is one of Odoo’s specialties. Odoo has over 3 million happy business owners all over the world.

Your inventory, CRM, accounting, HR and every other need is Odoo’s priority. Feel free to consult Odoo for any business related questions and estimates.

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