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One Odoo ERP and 8 SQL Reports for a Cleaning-Chemicals Firm

A Belgian cleaning-chemicals company consolidated sales, inventory, accounting, eCommerce, and contract servicing into one Odoo system with management reporting written directly in SQL.

8
Custom SQL reports, from product margin to stock rotation
10+
Business areas covered, from CRM to claim management
1
System spanning webshop, warehouse, and accounting
2x
Faster management reporting cycle
Region
Belgium
Duration
12 weeks · delivery
Industry
Chemicals & Cleaning Services
Tech Stack
OdooOdoo SalesOdoo CRMOdoo Inventory & StockOdoo AccountingOdoo eCommerce & Website ThemeEDICustom SQL Reports

The challenge

Indep Consulting runs a demanding mix of businesses: daily and professional cleaning chemicals, cleaning equipment and machines, and ongoing maintenance contracts with service-quality commitments. Each line generated its own data, and management visibility suffered for it.

  • Sales, stock, and accounting information sat in disconnected tools, making questions like product margin or vendor spend slow to answer.
  • Customer-specific pricing and intercompany goods movements were handled manually, inviting errors.
  • Maintenance contracts and customer claims had no systematic tracking tied to the commercial records.
  • Trading partners expected EDI, which the existing setup could not provide.

Our approach

iVentureTeam implemented Odoo as the company's single operating system, configured the commercial specifics, and then went a layer deeper — writing SQL-based reports tuned to the exact questions management asks.

Core ERP and eCommerce implementation

  • Rolled out Sales, CRM, Inventory, Stock, and Accounting as the operational core.
  • Designed the website theme and customized the Odoo eCommerce experience for the product catalog.
  • Set up claim management so complaints and service issues attach to the relevant orders and contracts.

Commercial rules built for a chemicals distributor

  • Configured custom pricelists reflecting the company's segment- and customer-specific pricing.
  • Implemented intercompany transfer rules so stock moving between entities posts correctly without rekeying.
  • Enabled EDI for structured document exchange with trading partners.

Eight SQL-powered management reports

  • Built invoice, order, and sales-activity reports directly on SQL queries for speed and precision.
  • Delivered product margin, vendor summary, stock, and stock rotation reports to expose profitability and slow movers.
  • Added a contract report giving management a live view of maintenance commitments.

Outcomes

Indep Consulting now steers its chemicals, equipment, and contract businesses from one Odoo system — and its managers read the business from reports built on their own definitions, not generic dashboards.

  • Margins, stock rotation, and vendor performance are visible on demand through the 8 custom SQL reports.
  • Pricing and intercompany transfers follow configured rules instead of manual judgment.
  • Claims and maintenance contracts are tracked against the same records as sales and invoicing.
  • The webshop, warehouse, and accounting reconcile automatically in a single database.

The reports we could never get out of Odoo are now one click away. Decisions that used to wait for month-end happen the same day.

Managing Partner · Indep Consulting SPRL

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