How to Use Odoo17 to Manage Variant Production in Various Work Centers

ADHICHAND
August 1, 2024
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Based on the relatively smooth work center flow and its ideal to produce a variety of a particular product in a different work center. here are some examples. Suppose a customer requires a table and wants to have all the variants of this article; the quantity of this article on hand is zero. For this reason, the company requires the production of the product with a view of satisfying the customer. so let’s explore how to use Odoo17 to manage variant production in various work centers

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How to Use Odoo17 to Manage Variant Production

From the above figure, there are four types of tables which are rectangular wooden tables, rectangular glass tables, round wooden tables, and round glass tables. for shapes, the company’s beverages and products will produced from the different work centers as soon as a customer places an order, instant manufacture begins. In other words, the round table originates from one work center while the rectangular table originates from another work center.

How to Evaluate the Complete Manufacturing process

locate to the Odoo17 manufacturing application. and automatically Generate an element” ‘Table’ from the Manufacturing application. In the Products menu go down to the sub-Products menu by selecting New from the options to set a new storable product table whereby the on hand quantity should be nil.

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Then move to the next step of the inventory tab. of the appeared new form of the product and put the routes Replenish on order (MTO) and Manufacture.

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Analyzing the captured screenshot

it can observed that four distinct variants have been set for the product Table. The round table will fabricated in Work Center 1 while the rectangular table is produced in Work Center 2. Therefore, the subsequent step is to create two work centres. The primary step to take in order to configure a work center is to access the configuration of the manufacturing application and choose work center configuration.

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Under the operation section, check the work orders working and save changes. Navigate to the Configuration menu and go to the Work Center sub-menu. Then we will get the option to create a new work center, also we can proceed to have a work center for every process of our product. To do this, you need to click the New button situated on the screen in order to set some basic settings of the new work center. To illustrate, let ‘work center 1’ and let ‘work center 2’ work centers have needs defined here.

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The subsequent procedure is to develop Bills of Materials for the various versions of the product. A Bill of Material is a description of every individual part and its consumption that is required in building a product.

How to Create a Bill of Material

the detail can be initiated by clicking on the Bill of Materials smart tab in the product form. Otherwise, if there is no data change, click on the Products menu and then hover over the Bill of Material. Then, click on the New button and create the new bill of materials for the product Table with its four variants in the tree hierarchy.

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Work Centre Tab & Operation tab in Odoo17

Next go to the Bill of Materials form and there is the Option of providing work center on the Operation tab of the form. If one opts to click add a line from the Operation tab, a new window will open to indicate the operation that is being done and the work center.

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Contained in the popup window, there is an ‘Apply on variants’ field. Ensure that you give the name of the variant when offering the information that corresponds to that operation.

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This can we deduced from the above snapshot of the simulation whereby the ‘Round cutting’ is being conducted in the ‘work center 1’ while the ‘rectangular cutting’ in the ‘work center 2’. During the ‘Apply on variant field’, we have specified the rectangle variant of the product to which this operation is applicable.

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And there is a second operation that labeled ‘round cutting’ which is done from the ‘workcenter 1,’ and this is specifically about the round version of the product.

Thus, in this case, here we are carrying out two processes, that are round cutting and rectangular cutting. The round cutting will carried from the ‘work center 1’ and rectangular and the cutting will performed from the ‘work center 2’. This is ‘Work Center 1’ mainly for manufacturing round tables made of wood and glass and the other one is ‘Work Center 2’ for the manufacturing of rectangular tables made of wood and glass.

How to Create a Sale Order for Products in Odoo17

let us go to the sales application. Move the pointer to the Orders menu and then select Quotation under the sub-menu to set up a quotation for the sale order. New quotation and select one of the variants of the product from the list. The variant for the selection will highlighted thru a link and a popup window. Here one can view all three kinds of the product, and one can set variant characteristics to the product.

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After that to make sure about the configured product variant for the given quote enter another three variants of the product in the similar quote and confirming the order.

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Manufacturing Smart Tab in Odoo17

When the order is placed, the ‘Delivery’ and ‘Manufacture’ options will appear on the smart tab. None the less, in the Manufacturing smart tab, there will be four manufacturing orders developed to produce four kinds of variants. Then we click on the Manufacturing smart tab and there, and we have the four manufacturing orders.

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Select all of the manufacturing orders and then press the ‘Produce all’ button to manufacture the product.

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Work Orders from Manufacturing Order

As for the above screen shot the product manufactured is a rectangular wooden table and since the shape of the table is rectangular. For this, we have made arrangements to manufacture the product from ‘Work Center 2’ Now, go to ‘Work Orders from Manufacturing Order’ in the menu bar on the top of the page.

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The Work Centers

Here, it is also ascertain that work center utilized in the case is ‘work center 2’ Likewise, if we search in the manufacturing order of the round wooden table, we can identify that from the work center 1

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Since the round cutting operation is in work-center 1 or the ID of the work center that does round tables manufacture is ‘Work Center 1’

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Here, the work center for the round table set is ‘Workcenter 1’ as we allocated work center 1 for the round-cutting operation.

By this, we can finish the manufacturing of the other 2 variants. Thus, it is possible to validate the delivery order after the production of all the manufacturing orders.

Odoo17 for Optimizing the Manufacturing Orders

Here a customer makes an order of a table that has four different versions or types. It should also noted that our company has two work centers for the production of the variations of the product. As to the structure and relationships between the work centers, here it is necessary to state that the manufacture of different product varieties is performed in different work centers. This feature is useful for a firm because it enhances workflow in the organization.

This accelerates the production chain since it routes every variant through the appropriate work center. It also enhances the organization of production because it reduces the time spent on production halt and Eliminates unnecessary movement of material and equipment. Due to the nature of work centers where each must correlate to a specific type of product, setting up does not take much time because less equipment and processes need to be changed. This makes it possible to achieve faster change of product and production flow.

Thus, it is possible to state that production of variants in different work centers in Odoo17 contributes to the optimization of manufacturing orders with the purpose for the increase of efficiency and productivity in the company. if you have any thoughts on how to use Odoo17 to manage variant production, feel free to contact us

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