Learn Odoo: A beginner's guide to designing, configuring, and customizing business applications with Odoo

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Installing Your First Application

We have learned about the various applications that Odoo has to offer and how you can install Odoo on your own system. Before the release of Odoo 8, most users were focused on ERP and finance-related applications. Now, Odoo 12 has added several important applications that allow companies to use Odoo in much greater scope than ever before. For example, the website builder can be installed to quickly launch a simple website for your business—a task that typically would need to be accomplished with a content management system such as WordPress.

Despite all of the increasing options available in Odoo, the overall process is the same. We begin by looking at the general business requirements and decide on the first set of applications that we wish to implement. After understanding our basic objectives, we will create an Odoo database and configure...

Key benefits

Learn the fundamentals of Odoo, a comprehensive enterprise management platform, without writing a single line of code

Create business operation strategies and analytics by using Odoo

Build customized ERP and CRM solutions for your business

Description

Odoo is management software that contains a set of open source enterprise management applications that help you modernize your business. Completely revised and updated, this comprehensive Odoo guide is a fourth edition of Working with Odoo. This book begins with an introduction to Odoo and helps you set up Odoo Online in your system. You'll learn how to start a new company database in Odoo and the basics of Odoo sales management. You will explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. Moving on, you'll learn how to install the purchasing application, set up suppliers, and begin purchasing and receiving products in Odoo. Next, you'll learn how to use the MRP module to create, process, and schedule the manufacturing and production order. Once you get to grips with the basic applications, you'll uncover how to customize Odoo to meet the specific needs of your business. You'll learn some advanced techniques for searching and finding information, and you'll be taken through business intelligence in Odoo. Towards the end of the book, you'll go in-depth into Odoo's architecture and learn to use Odoo's API to integrate with other applications. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to use Odoo to build enterprise applications and set up the functional requirements for your business.

What you will learn

Configure and customize a customer relationship management system

Set up purchasing and receiving system functionality in your Odoo environment

Understand manufacturing operations and processes with real-world examples

Explore Odoo s financial accounting and reporting features

Use Odoo s featured project management application to sort tasks

Get to grips with the basics of Odoo administration and manage multi-company operations

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