Tracking Manufacturing Operations in ERP

Modern manufacturing often involves multiple stages of transformation — from milling and drilling to polishing, coating, and assembly. Each stage consumes resources, labor, and materials. Without a proper system, it becomes difficult to track costs, link inventory consumption, and maintain full visibility over the production lifecycle.

A manufacturing client approached OS-Mena with exactly this challenge. Their production processes required many sequential steps: milling, welding, grinding, coating, and final assembly.

Until recently, operations were tracked manually:

• Raw material usage wasn’t tied directly to each production order.
• Intermediate steps weren’t visible in the system.
• Costs were approximated rather than calculated precisely.

The result was inefficiency, lost visibility, and frequent disputes over production costs.

The absence of integrated production tracking created serious issues:

• Disconnected stages: Each step (milling, finishing, coating) was tracked separately, if at all.
• Inventory blind spots: Raw materials were issued manually, and semi-finished products weren’t tracked in real time.
• Unclear cost structure: Without linking operations to inventory and labor, true production costs were hidden.
• Waste and rework: Quality issues were only discovered late in the process, increasing scrap and rework.
• Delayed reporting: Management lacked timely insight into production efficiency and bottlenecks.

OS-MENA implemented a fully integrated Odoo Manufacturing ERP solution, designed to connect every stage of production with inventory and financials.

The solution included:

• Odoo Manufacturing (MRP): End-to-end management of production orders, bills of materials (BoM), and product routings.
• Work Centers & Routings: Each production stage (milling, coating, assembly) defined as a separate operation with resource allocation and cycle times.
• Odoo Inventory: Automatic consumption of raw materials and creation of semi-finished products as each step was completed.
• Odoo Quality: Real-time quality checks at critical stages to reduce rework and defects.
• Odoo Costing & Accounting: Direct link between operations, material usage, and labor costs for transparent cost structures.
• Odoo Dashboards: Live monitoring of work orders, efficiency, and production bottlenecks.

By creating a connected workflow, OS-MENA ensured that every piece of material, every operation, and every cost was captured accurately.

With OS-MENA’s implementation of Odoo ERP, the client gained:

• Accurate tracking: Full visibility from raw material issuance to finished product delivery.
• Cost transparency: Reliable costing for each order, reducing hidden expenses.
• Lower waste and defects: Quality checks integrated into workflows improved product reliability.
• Improved efficiency: Management could identify and address bottlenecks in real time.
• Data-driven decisions: Leadership could analyze margins and efficiency per product line.

At OS-MENA, we help manufacturers move from fragmented, manual tracking to integrated ERP platforms. With Odoo, every production step — from raw materials to finished products — becomes transparent, efficient, and cost-effective.