Complete the first manufacturing order

The Odoo manufacturing application is fully integrated with sales and inventory applications—like the other stockable products, the manufactured products can be stocked in an inventory, or it can be manufactured on demand. Let's see an example of on-demand manufactured products, where the manufacturing starts as and when we confirm the sales.

Let's manufacture the Computer Desk. To build the desk, we need four lags, a desktop, and some bolts for the fittings; we will build the desk on demand.

Getting ready

It is assumed that you understand the difference between components, finished products, and semi-finished products and that we need to prepare the bill of material for each manufactured product.

How to do it...

1. Unlike the other Odoo main applications such as Sales, Purchase, Accounting, and Inventory, Manufacturing is a major application. The Manufacturing application can be installed from the apps.

2. As soon as the Manufacturing application is installed...