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Success story

One plant-floor truth, costed in real time.

How a national manufacturer went from costing that arrived weeks late to a governed Odoo core where every work order carries its true cost — live.

Manufacturing[Client name — pending approval]Egypt · multi-plantOdoo 18 · MRP, Accounting, Inventory
The challenge

Costing arrived weeks after the decisions it should have informed.

Costing weeks behind the decisions

Product cost was assembled manually at month end. By the time management saw margins, the quotes based on them had already shipped.

Three disconnected systems

Production ran on a legacy planning tool, purchasing on spreadsheets, and accounting in a separate system — no shared truth between them.

Stock nobody could trust

Counts disagreed between the plant and finance, and nobody could say which number was right.

What we did

Mapped first. Then one governed core.

01

Discovery sprint on the plant floor

Documented as-is processes and a fit-gap report — before any commitment was made.

02

One governed Odoo core

Odoo MRP, Inventory and Accounting implemented as one core: BoMs rebuilt from real routings, work-center costs captured at the operation level.

03

Governed purchasing and costing

An approvals matrix so purchasing and costing changes carry an audit trail — who approved what, and why.

04

Staged migration, Arabic training, on-date launch

Data migrated in validated batches, every role trained in Arabic, and the system launched on the committed date.

The results

Margins visible while they can still be defended.

01

Quote from live costs

Management now quotes from live costs instead of last month's reconstruction.

02

Month-end became routine

Month-end close shrank from a project to a routine.

03

Argue decisions, not data

The plant and finance now argue about decisions instead of about which number is right.

04

Governed across upgrades

The system has stayed governed through two Odoo version upgrades.

Your operation could read like this.

It starts with the same discovery sprint — free, documented, no commitment.