Modern manufacturing faces major challenges: disconnected departments, scattered data, and manual errors lead to delays, defects, and wasted resources. Coordinating between sales, planning, and quality control often costs companies hundreds of hours each year.
Odoo ERP solves these problems by unifying all key departments in a single system, automating workflows, and providing real-time visibility. With custom modules like Solvve’s Mold Management Module, manufacturers can optimize processes, improve product quality, and maintain full control over resources and production efficiency.
Challenges of Traditional Manufacturing
One of the main challenges in traditional manufacturing is the strong disconnection between departments, where each operates in its own systems and documents. This creates data silos: information about orders, resources, and quality is scattered, making process control and coordination difficult. As a result, manual errors increase — inaccuracies in orders, production planning, and quality control can lead to defects, delays, and additional costs.
Another issue is the waste of time and resources due to excessive communication, repeated work, and unnecessary approvals. According to statistics, companies can spend hundreds of hours per year just coordinating between departments, significantly reducing overall manufacturing efficiency and increasing costs.
Real-Life Facts
Costs due to departmental misalignment
Research shows that misalignment between departments can cost companies over $1 trillion annually. This includes lost productivity, inefficient use of marketing budgets, and unrealized sales potential. For B2B companies, such misalignment can result in the loss of more than 10% of annual revenue.
Impact on labor productivity
According to OECD data, in 2024, labor productivity in 40 countries increased by only 0.4%, significantly below pre-pandemic levels. A similar trend is observed in Europe and Asia, highlighting the need to improve internal alignment and efficiency.
Negative impact on quality
Lack of collaboration between departments leads to poor communication, which can cause errors, reduce product quality, and lower employee morale.
Time costs due to inefficiency
PwC analysis shows that inefficiencies caused by organizational silos cost companies an astonishing 350 hours per year, equivalent to one working day per week.
How Odoo Integrates Key Departments
Odoo creates a unified platform to manage all key stages of the manufacturing process, integrating sales, planning, and quality control departments. This helps companies eliminate data silos and minimize manual errors.
Sales Department
The sales department is responsible for customer interactions, receiving orders, and creating production plans based on market demand.
How it works in Odoo: The system automatically transfers order information to the manufacturing process, storing all customer details, product quantities, and delivery timelines. Sales managers can track production status in real time.
Benefits for manufacturing:
- Minimizes manual data entry and reduces errors.
- Ensures process transparency for managers and production teams.
- Allows faster response to changes in orders and deadlines.
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Manufacturing Planning
Planning determines how to effectively use resources, equipment, and personnel to fulfill production orders.
How it works in Odoo: The system allows tasks to be allocated in real time, production schedules to be created, material availability to be monitored, and downtime to be prevented.
Benefits for manufacturing:
- Optimizes resource and personnel utilization.
- Prevents downtime and scheduling conflicts.
- Enables quick rescheduling when orders or deadlines change.
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Quality Control
Responsible for checking products against standards and preventing defects.
How it works in Odoo: Built-in checklists and control points are applied at each production stage. The system automatically tracks defects and deviations.
Benefits for manufacturing:
- Detects problems at early stages.
- Reduces costs from rework and defective products.
- Improves final product quality and customer satisfaction.
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Single Database
A central platform where all information about orders, production, resources, and quality is stored.
How it works in Odoo: All data is stored in one place and accessible to all departments in real time. This ensures integrated operations and reduces the need for manual data exchange.
Benefits for manufacturing:
- Eliminates data silos between departments.
- Provides transparency for managers and employees.
- Speeds up decision-making and enables faster responses to changes.
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Custom Module Extensions for Specific Business Needs
Odoo manufacturing modules are built on best business management practices. The system’s logic makes production processes simple, transparent, and easy to manage. Thanks to its modular architecture, Odoo can be implemented quickly — allowing companies to launch a fully functional business management system in a short time.
At the same time, every manufacturing company has its own unique processes that require additional flexibility. Odoo supports custom module development, enabling businesses to extend standard functionality and adapt the system to their specific operational needs.
For example, our team at Solvve developed a Mold Management Module — a custom solution designed to track mold usage, maintenance, and lifecycle stages in real time. The module provides insights into equipment wear, automates maintenance notifications, and ensures full control over mold availability and efficiency.
Such extensions integrate seamlessly with the core Odoo applications, helping companies go beyond standard features — optimizing their workflows, enhancing production visibility, and achieving true process automation tailored to their business.
Mold Manager for Odoo MRP: A Comprehensive Solution for Manufacturing
The Mold Management Module by Solvve is a specialized extension for Odoo MRP that enables efficient management of molds and tools in the manufacturing process. The module provides flexible tracking of mold usage across different machines, accurate recording of operation cycles, automated maintenance scheduling, and integration with other Odoo modules for comprehensive production management. This helps reduce maintenance costs, increase resource utilization efficiency, and ensure a high level of product quality.
You can learn more about the module’s features and benefits in our article:
Practical Case Studies
With over 10 years of experience implementing and optimizing Odoo for manufacturing companies, our team has helped businesses streamline operations, reduce errors, and increase efficiency. We specialize in tailoring Odoo solutions to meet the unique needs of each production environment, ensuring seamless integration between departments and maximum visibility across all processes.
Explore how our expertise translates into real-world results - and see how Odoo can transform your manufacturing operations today.
Exxentric – Optimizing Manufacturing Processes
Exxentric implemented Odoo ERP to automate manufacturing and operational processes across its international offices. The system allowed the company to standardize department workflows, reduce manual tasks, and integrate data on orders, materials, and production tasks into a single platform.
As a result, production became more transparent and controllable: downtime and errors were reduced, resource planning and order management efficiency improved, and the company could execute production tasks faster while ensuring consistent product quality for customers in multiple countries.
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LedPax – Optimizing Manufacturing Processes
Canadian LED lighting manufacturer and distributor LedPax faced challenges with an outdated ERP system that no longer met modern business needs. Lack of integrated inventory management and reliance on Excel for tracking orders led to inefficiencies and communication errors between departments.
Solvve migrated the company to Odoo 14, developing and integrating customized modules for inventory management and handling “dynamic” orders. This centralized data, reduced manual work, and improved collaboration between sales, engineering, and suppliers.
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Droplet – Optimizing Customer Interaction and Sales Efficiency
Droplet, a company specializing in custom apparel and branded products, faced challenges due to the lack of a centralized system for managing customer interactions. This led to lost opportunities and inefficiencies in the sales process.
Solvve implemented Odoo CRM, customizing sales stages according to Droplet’s business processes, automating reminders, and using the “Discuss” module to enhance team communication. This allowed the company to centralize all customer interactions, reduce the risk of missed opportunities, and access real-time analytics for informed decision-making.
🔗 Learn more: Droplet Case Study
Benefits for Business
Implementing Odoo in manufacturing processes brings a range of important benefits:
Reduced manual errors and duplicated work: Automation of data transfer between departments lowers the risk of inaccuracies in orders, planning, and quality control.
Real-time process transparency: Managers and employees have access to up-to-date information on production status, resources, and deadlines, enabling faster responses to changes.
Time and resource savings: Minimizing manual work, optimizing schedules, and planning help reduce downtime and costs associated with rework.
Improved interdepartmental communication: A shared database and integrated processes prevent misunderstandings, speed up decision-making, and reduce time spent in internal meetings.
Enhanced product quality: Quality control at every stage of production helps detect defects early and prevent the occurrence of defective products.
Odoo – The Key to Transparent and Controlled Manufacturing
Odoo ERP enables manufacturing optimization, process standardization, and improved collaboration between departments, directly impacting business efficiency and profitability. Implementing Odoo in manufacturing processes allows companies to unify sales, planning, and quality control departments into a single system, eliminating data silos and minimizing manual errors. Process automation, real-time transparency, and efficient resource planning help reduce downtime, improve product quality, and save time and resources.
Odoo integration is not just automation; it is a strategic step toward transparent, controlled, and efficient manufacturing that is ready for growth and new market challenges.
Ready to take your manufacturing operations to the next level? Contact our team today! to see how Odoo can transform your production workflow.