Engineer-to-Order (ETO) businesses operate in a world where every customer order is unique, and standard processes don’t suffice. In this session, we’ll explore how a real manufacturing company successfully implemented a complete ETO workflow using only standard Odoo features — no customizations required.

From sales to delivery, every order follows a custom path: the design team creates the Design based on client requirements, and after approval BOM team will prepare unique BOMs, raw materials are procured just-in-time, and execution is managed via project templates with predefined tasks. Employees log time using timesheets, and every cost — from design hours to purchased materials — is tracked through analytic accounts.

By leveraging Odoo’s Project, Timesheet, PLM, Manufacturing, Purchase, and Analytic Accounting apps together, we streamlined an otherwise complex process into a structured, scalable, and cost-transparent system.

If you’re managing high-mix, low-volume or fully custom production, this talk will show how you can deliver custom products while still staying on top of costs, efficiency, and profitability.

🚀 Business Context:

Begins with a client-specific design process

Requires a unique BoM that is finalized only after design approval

Demands just-in-time raw material procurement

Is executed and tracked through a project-based model in Odoo

🧩 Key Functional Highlights:

Using Project Templates to standardize pre-defined tasks across ETO orders
(e.g., Design Review, BoM Creation, Procurement Planning, QC)

Timesheet entries against project tasks to track employee effort and design hours

Creating unique BoMs per order using standard Odoo PLM and Manufacturing features

Linking Sales Orders to Projects and Analytic Accounts for complete cost tracking

Managing material purchases based on the finalized BoM

Monitoring project execution through Tasks, Timesheets, and Work Orders

Leveraging Analytic Accounting to capture:

Labor (via Timesheets)

Raw Material Costs (via Purchase Orders)

Subcontracting or manufacturing overheads

💡 What You’ll Learn:

How to implement an ETO process in Odoo without heavy customization

How standard apps — Sales, Project, Timesheet, Purchase, Manufacturing, and Analytic Accounting — work in sync

How to track real-time profitability per order using analytic reports

Best practices for structuring a scalable ETO workflow using project templates and standard configurations

Whether you're building machinery, custom fabrication, or complex engineered solutions, this session will show you how you can deliver unique products — while keeping processes repeatable and financials under control using Odoo's standard toolset.