Odoo app guide · Supply Chain
Odoo Manufacturing: what it does, and what’s new in 20
Odoo Manufacturing runs MRP end to end: multi-level BoMs, routings and work centres, scheduled against material availability and capacity, with actual costs accumulated per manufacturing order.
Paired with Quality, Maintenance, PLM and the Shop Floor tablet view it covers what mid-market plants actually need — our manufacturing industry page walks the full mechanics.
24 documented changes in Odoo 20Verified against the release notes · 2026-09
The mechanics that matter in Odoo Manufacturing
- Multi-level BoMs with phantoms, variants, alternates and engineering versions (PLM)
- Routings with work-centre capacity, setup times and OEE tracking
- MRP scheduling that nets demand against stock, open POs and WIP
- Work-order costing: actual material, labour and overhead vs. estimate
- Subcontracting flows with material tracked at the vendor
What changed in Odoo 20 Manufacturing
Enhancement 18New feature 5Removal 1
- Backorder planningEnhancement
- Bill of materialsEnhancement
- Component replacementEnhancement
- Continuous productionNew feature
- Draft versus confirmed manufacturing ordersNew feature
- Flexible consumptionRemoval
- Generate lots and serials when closing manufacturing ordersEnhancement
- Lot/serial number transfersEnhancement
- Manufacturing order Kanban viewEnhancement
- Manufacturing orders planned ASAPEnhancement
- MO costEnhancement
- Produce buttonEnhancement
- Put in pack from MONew feature
- Reset MO to draftNew feature
- Shop Floor demo sheetEnhancement
- Split manufacturing ordersEnhancement
- Subcontracting reception valuationEnhancement
- To Replenish filterEnhancement
- Traceability report expiration datesEnhancement
- Visualize and confirm work ordersEnhancement
- Work and manufacturing order reportingEnhancement
- Work order viewsNew feature
- Work center overviewEnhancement
- Work orders in blocked work centersEnhancement
Each link opens the detailed entry — plain-words explanation, screenshots from a live Odoo 20 database, and the source-code check behind it.
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