Creating manufacturing orders
Manufacturing orders define the product you wish to build, the resources required, and when you wish to produce the product. The resources often include raw products or ingredients that are created by a bill of materials. A bill of materials is essentially a list of products and the quantity required to produce the final product.
Producing the product
When it is time to produce the product, you then inform Odoo of each of the products produced, and your manufacturing order changes to a status of Complete
. In a typical workflow, your raw materials are moved out of the inventory, and your finished product is added into your inventory.
Delivering the order
After a product has been produced and has been put into the inventory, it can be packaged and delivered to the customer. Depending on the specific manufacturing environment, a product may not even sit in a physical inventory location at all, and instead may be shipped almost immediately to the customer. Meanwhile...