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How can I use Manufacturing to produce two distinct products starting from the same material?

In the form I seem to be able to enter only 1 Product...

Alternatively, how do you typically handle the situation where I buy from a supplier a box which contains completely different products, and "unpack" it into single distinct products?

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You could use By-Products (Manufacturing -> Configuration -> Settings -> Operations section -> By-Products) or reverse your manufacturing by using Unbuild Orders (Manufacturing -> Operations -> Unbuild Orders)

See also https://www.odoo.com/documentation/18.0/applications/inventory_and_mrp/manufacturing/workflows/byproducts.html and https://www.odoo.com/documentation/18.0/applications/inventory_and_mrp/manufacturing/workflows/unbuild_orders.html


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That's brilliant, thanks! Does this account for automatically calculating the product cost (without privileging the main product from the by)? Or is it just for inventory but not for cost?

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Unbuild orders would also be cool but they need to be built first, since it's asking me to reference a BoM - not sure if this is doable.

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Unless maybe I can use the "Kit" kind of BoM to do that... I'm investigating.

With a Kit BoM you could just Purchase the "parent" product, and on your WH/IN receipt, this would be split up into the containing products already.

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Yeah Kit seems to work amazingly, thanks a lot!!!

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WARNING for any future reader: do NOT use Kits! They are a flimsy feature not designed for this sort of use, and they will completely mess up your database. Kits are for products that you order separately and sell as a Kit. My use case is kind of the opposite: I order the Box, and I may either sell the full box or its single components. This does not work: https://www.odoo.com/forum/help-1/a-product-with-a-kit-type-bill-of-materials-can-not-have-a-reordering-rule-280844

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