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
