Streamlining quoting, scheduling, and production for businesses in the custom, made to order manufacturing space. In this presentation, I am going to show how leveraging the product configurator can optimize not just the sales process, but the manufacturing process as well. 

This functionality provides a solution for the following:

Challenges for Sales: accurate pricing, vast combinations, quote building can be time consuming and tedious 

Challenges for MRP: comprehensive BOM creation, which impacts accuracy of inventory management, nuanced production process factoring in varied lead times

Odoo’s product configurator allows end users to easily apply variants upon a base product. These variants can be predefined, or a custom value. Based on the unique combination of value selection for each order, a unique product is created- but a unique BOM does not have to be manually created each time. Odoo has the logic to create that unique BOM automatically based on the materials and operations preassigned to each selection. This capability effectively maps out what needs to be pulled for what to generate a brand new blue print for products that never existed before.