By business function · Production and planning team
Transform your production team every day
Give your production and planning team a single, reliable ERP for manufacturing that replaces spreadsheets, whiteboards and last-minute firefighting with controlled, data-driven flow from order to shipment. With Captivea and Odoo Manufacturing, planners, supervisors and operators work from the same real-time view of orders, inventory, capacity and quality so you can stabilise schedules, cut lead times and improve customer satisfaction.
Context
An Odoo Gold Partner dedicated to manufacturing production teams
Captivea supports manufacturing SMBs, mid-market groups and industrial enterprises in modernising their ERP for production, planning and shop floor control with Odoo. Organised by industry vertical and present across several regions, we combine proximity to your plants with the strength of an international Odoo Gold Partner.
From strategic scoping to post go-live support, our consultants, business analysts and developers cover the full project lifecycle for your production team: manufacturing ERP, inventory and supply chain, web portals for customers and suppliers, plus Business Intelligence and artificial intelligence built on trustworthy shop floor data.
Before / After
From friction to flow
Before
- Daily production plans live in fragile spreadsheets and whiteboards that only a few people understand.
- Planners constantly reshuffle schedules to deal with shortages, rush orders and machine downtime, without a clear view of constraints.
- Supervisors and operators work with paper work orders, outdated information and disconnected quality or maintenance tools.
After
- Production plans are managed on an integrated Odoo Manufacturing board that reflects real capacity, materials and priorities in real time.
- Planners, supervisors and operators share the same digital work orders, dashboards and alerts, reducing chaos and missed due dates.
- Inventory, quality, maintenance and finance are connected to production, turning month-end and audits into simple checks instead of emergencies.
Your daily irritants
What slows down your production and planning team
Unclear rules for planning, priorities and responsibilities leave your production team reacting to crises instead of following a shared, realistic plan.
Clarifying production governance and planning rules
We work with production, supply chain and finance teams to define clear planning horizons, frozen periods, escalation paths and decision rights so everyone understands how and when the plan can change, reducing noise and conflicts.
Your ERP feels like a constraint instead of a support, forcing planners back to Excel for production scheduling and inventory checks.
ERP tuned to real-life production processes
We configure Odoo Manufacturing, Inventory and Purchase to follow your actual routing, batch, subcontracting and replenishment logic so planners can rely on the system for capacity, materials and cost visibility instead of bypassing it.
Customers and internal stakeholders lack self-service visibility on orders, leading to constant calls and emails to the production team for updates.
Web portals connected to your shop floor
We design customer and partner portals on Odoo that expose accurate lead times, order statuses and documentation directly from your ERP, easing pressure on planners while improving communication and trust.
Your team relies on gut feel to anticipate bottlenecks, breakdowns or quality drifts, reacting only once disruption hits the schedule.
AI-assisted predictions for production and supply chain
We help you use historical ERP data to predict machine failures, anticipate demand peaks and detect anomalies in quality or cycle times, so your production plan can adapt proactively instead of absorbing constant shocks.
Managers struggle to get a clear, shared picture of capacity, OEE, scrap and order profitability across lines, plants or product families.
BI dashboards for end-to-end production performance
We build role-based dashboards on top of Odoo data that show planners, supervisors and executives the same key indicators—from work centre loads to on-time delivery and margins—supporting fact-based decisions.
The concrete gains
What you gain
Your company
Reliable, realistic planning
Your company gains a production plan that aligns capacity, materials and customer priorities instead of changing hourly. Planners work in a single environment with real-time feedback, reducing premium freight, overtime and last-minute schedule changes.
Connected supply chain and production
Purchasing, warehouse, production and sales share one version of demand and supply, cutting stockouts and excess stock. This improves on-time delivery and reduces the number of urgent escalations that disrupt your shop floor.
Better shop floor visibility and performance
Supervisors and managers can see which orders are late, which work centres are overloaded and where scrap or downtime is rising, enabling targeted actions that increase throughput and overall equipment effectiveness.
Your teams
Integrated quality and compliance
Quality controls, non-conformities and traceability live inside your ERP instead of in separate files, simplifying audits and certifications while reducing the cost of poor quality for your manufacturing business.
Faster decisions with trusted data
Your teams gain consistent, real-time production, inventory and costing data for capacity planning, make-or-buy analysis and investment decisions, rather than relying on manual reconciliations and outdated spreadsheets.
A production team ready for growth
Standardised processes and scalable manufacturing ERP allow you to add new lines, plants or business models without losing control of schedules, inventory or margins.
Your customers
Transparent order follow-up
Customers and internal stakeholders can see realistic lead times and up-to-date order statuses, reducing uncertainty and ad-hoc calls to your planners.
Maximum responsiveness to changes
When priorities shift, your team can quickly simulate options, understand material and capacity impacts and communicate new dates, keeping commitments credible even in volatile environments.
Consistent, reliable experience
Every contact at your customer finds a production organisation that is informed, aligned and able to explain status, constraints and options in a consistent way, reinforcing trust over the long term.
How it works
A phased rollout designed for adoption
The success of a production ERP project depends less on features than on adoption at the planner, supervisor and operator level. Our phased method limits risk through short iterations, concrete pilots and continuous feedback from your shop floor teams.
1. Mapping your current production processes
We start on site with planners, supervisors, operators, supply chain and quality teams to document how work orders are released, how constraints are handled, where delays and rework come from, and which tools and data you use today.
2. Designing your target manufacturing ERP
We translate your real production flows into an Odoo design: work centres, routings, BOMs, planning horizons, stock rules and the dashboards each role needs, balancing best practices with your industry specifics and constraints.
3. Configuration, integration and data preparation
We configure Odoo, prepare and cleanse master data, connect required systems such as MES or PLCs, and ensure that items, BOMs and routings are accurate enough for your new ERP to support reliable planning right from day one.
4. Pilot, rollout and continuous improvement
We run a pilot on a focused scope, fine-tune parameters based on real orders, then roll out to other areas with training and floor-level coaching. After go-live, BI dashboards and performance reviews guide ongoing optimisation.
Start your transformation
Planning a project to transform your production organisation?
Our local teams support your production and planning transformation right from initial scoping through Odoo Manufacturing deployment and continuous improvement on the shop floor.
An integrated offer
ERP · Web · AI · BI for manufacturing
Five areas of expertise, one team that knows your business.
ERP
For manufacturing companies, we deploy Odoo as an integrated production and supply chain platform covering MRP, inventory, purchasing, shop floor control, quality, maintenance and finance in one environment. We configure work centres, routings, BOMs and planning rules so your ERP mirrors real manufacturing constraints while giving production teams a single source of truth.
Web & Marketing
We connect your Odoo website, eCommerce and customer or supplier portals directly to production, inventory and logistics data. This lets customers see realistic lead times and order statuses, reduces manual queries to planners and supports stable production through better communication across the value chain.
Business Consulting
Our business consultants work with operations, supply chain and finance teams to redesign core processes such as plan-to-produce and procure-to-pay. We clarify roles, simplify approval paths and align KPIs so your ERP implementation reinforces efficient, sustainable production practices instead of encoding today’s pain points.
Artificial Intelligence
With clean ERP data in place, we help you use AI and advanced analytics to support production decisions: predicting demand, anticipating machine failures, detecting anomalies in quality results and suggesting optimal batch sizes or sequencing strategies, all grounded in your actual manufacturing history.
Business Intelligence
We build role-based BI dashboards for planners, supervisors, plant managers and executives that unify Odoo and external data. These views highlight OEE, scrap, on-time delivery, capacity utilisation and order profitability, providing a shared factual basis for steering your manufacturing operations.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
The best software for production planning is the one that closely matches your manufacturing processes, integrates with inventory and sales, and remains maintainable by your planners; for many mid-market manufacturers, Odoo Manufacturing configured by an experienced partner provides this balance by linking planning, MRP and shop floor execution in a single system.
In modern plants, production scheduling is most often managed through an integrated module within an ERP system that offers visual capacity views, drag-and-drop sequencing and automatic material availability checks, instead of isolated planning tools or stand-alone spreadsheets.
The best ERP for manufacturing depends on your size, complexity and budget; while large global groups may opt for SAP or Oracle, many small and mid-size manufacturers choose Odoo because it offers strong manufacturing, inventory and finance capabilities in a flexible, cloud-based platform that can be customised without the overheads of traditional suites.
ERP in manufacturing connects order management, demand forecasting, materials management, production scheduling, shop floor control, quality, maintenance and finance in a single system, giving real-time visibility and reducing manual work and data silos across the entire manufacturing process.
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Share your production challenges with us and we will show you how Captivea and Odoo Manufacturing can stabilise your schedules, improve visibility and support the growth of your plant.