Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook by Mantavya Gajjar

Key FeaturesReduce implementation costs and improve major benchmarks relating to storage space and speed.Implement the approval hierarchy and user and access rights, configure the company and language, and so on.Cover all platforms such as mobile, web, content management, and e-commerce.Book DescriptionOdoo is a Python-based ERP system and is completely open source. Odoo is a comprehensive suite of business applications offering a wealth of functionalities that can be deployed to meet your business needs.This book will help you manage the different functionalities of your business and optimize it. You will learn in detail about the various facets of the business process such as sales, accounting, purchases, manufacturing, and inventory. We will cover each of these topics in detail and learn how Odoo handles all these tasks with much ease. With its modular approach, you will be able to build customized solutions, take advantage of the Odoo 10 system in your organization, and master basic administration. We will cover modules and applications in Odoo that will help optimize quality checks. You will also be able to customize major reporting functions for your teams and set up forms and documents for sales, purchase, inventory, and so on.By the end of the book, you will be able to use the major functionalities of Odoo 10 and fully implement them into your business.What you will learnLearn the modern way of doing sales and managing sales contracts.Create and configure your products and manage your sales quotationsSet up an online shop and start selling online with Odoo eCommerceManage multi-currency transactions and create a deferred revenue plan and link it with productsAdminister vendors and products and request quotations, confirm orders, and get them deliveredManage quality control in the warehouse and manual and real-time inventory stock valuations.Manage projects and project forecasting via grid and Gantt viewsImplement Human Resource apps and manage the employee appraisal processManage Workcenters and the product lifecycleTrack worker activity with tablets and launch new changes in productionAbout the AuthorMantavya Gajjar has 10+ years of experience in Odoo, starting from TinyERP and OpenERP. He started his career as a developer and has developed many features in TinyERP, OpenERP, and Odoo. He initiated a mobile application project at the Indian office. He has a graduate and postgraduate degrees in computer science from Gujarat Vidyapith. He completed his studies in May 2006. On 1st June 2006, he started working for Axelor and TinyERP at Ahmedabad.He was the first international employee, appointed to establish a branch of Tiny ERP in India (Ahmedabad, Gujarat). He has done everything, from registering a legal company to setting up the physical office and recruitment. He has interviewed more than 8,000 candidates in the past 10 years, selecting 300 candidates and training them for the Indian branch. Most professionals working on Odoo in India are trained by him. As a result, today India (Ahmedabad, Gujarat) is called the Hub of Odoo Developers. Today, there are over 1,000 Odoo developers in Gujarat alone.Mantavya is actively engaged with many universities to prepare and review the syllabus for computer applications and computer science courses. As a reviewer, he has reviewed thousands of academic student projects. Being an alumnus of the Gujarat Vidyapith Computer Science Alumni Association, he contributes his free time to various social activities. He also plays the role of a trustee member and treasurer at Gujarat Vidyapith Computer Science Alumni Association. He has been a reviewer for the book, Working with OpenERP, by Packt.In his spare time, he likes to play cricket with friends and drives to new destinations by road with his wife and daughter.Table of ContentsGetting started with Odoo 10Implementation MethodologyTraceability - Marketing Campaign to Order and CashModern way of doing sales and manage sale contractsTime tracking and InvoicingStart selling online with Odoo eCommerceSetup Financial Management with OdooScale your businessPurchase ManagementWarehouse & Inventory managementAdvance Warehouse managementSet Up Manufacturing UnitManage Workcenters, Assembly line and Maintenance PlansImplement Project ManagementImplement Human resource appsAppendix A: Installation of Odoo on Ubuntu