These slides were presented at the odoo opendays 2014. In a manufacturing plant creating feasible material plans, capacity plans and workforce schedules quickly gets complex - and reaches beyond the capabilities of MRP or excel spreadsheets. FrePPLe is a leading open source finite capacity planning and scheduling application that provides advanced algorithms for this purpose. In this session we'll demonstrate the 2-way integration between frePPLe and Odoo, and focus on the value the combination Odoo+frePPLe brings to manufacturing companies.

1. Finite capacity planning and scheduling
for manufacturing
Odoo – frePPLe connector
Johan De Taeye

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Agenda
 Introduction
 Odoo and frePPLe
 Connector
 Live demo
 Conclusions
 Q&A

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Odoo in manufacturing
Business transactions that execute the
day-to-day operations in a manufacturing company
- Manage sales orders
- Manage purchase orders
- Track all inventory movements
- Create production orders
- HR
- Accounting & finance
- …
Odoo ERP is the backbone
to execute a manufacturing
company’s business processes

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Day in the life of a planner
How do we make best use of
our bottleneck resources?
When can we
ship this new
order?
What are our
capacity needs
for next year?
How do I schedule material, capacity
and labor around my constraints?
Some tough questions a
production planner in a
manufacturing plant has to
answer…
What is the impact of an unexpected
machine breakdown or a late material?
Which orders
risk to be
shipped late?
Which purchase
orders should
be expedited?

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Boost your planning process
When excel is no longer
the right tool to answer
these questions…
FrePPLe, open source APS tool
- over 9000 downloads per year
- finite capacity planning and scheduling
- optimized allocation of material and capacity
- intelligent decision support workflows

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Integrated solution
 Improve planning speed and accuracy
 Agile response to changes in demand and supply
 Improve your planner’s productivity
 Reduce work in progress and inventory
 Improve delivery performance
Business
benefits of
integrated
solution
Business transactions to
execute the day-to-day
business processes
Decision support to plan
beyond the ERP transactions

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Odoo – frePPLe connector
Inventory
Sales orders
Manufacturing orders
Work orders
Purchase orders
Manufacturing orders
Work orders
Procurement orders
Planned delivery date of sales orders
Workcenters
Routings
Bill of materials
Locations
Products
Customers

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Odoo – frePPLe connector
 Uses odoo standard XML-RPC API
 FrePPle can be installed on the same server as odoo
Or
The planner can work on a personal installation of frePPLe
 Only recently changed objects are transferred
 Synchronization of the data is fast
 Different methods of integration
a. Replace odoo mrp scheduler
FrePPLe creates the purchase and manufacturing orders
b. Upload manufacturing orders at key steps in the production
Upload purchase orders for some materials
c. Standalone plan
Don’t upload anything to odoo
d. Online quoting for sales orders
Promise delivery dates considering finite material and capacity
XML-RPC
connection
Net change
integration
Integration
modes

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Live demo
1. Create a new sales order in Odoo
2. Run connector Odoo=>frePPLe
3. Generate finite capacity plan in frePPLe
4. Review and approve plan in frePPLe
5. Run connector frePPLe=>Odoo
6. Check out the new procurement and
manufacturing orders in Odoo

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1. Create a new sales
order in Odoo

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2. Run connector
Odoo=>frePPLe

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3. Generate finite capacity
plan in frePPLe

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4. Review and approve
plan in frePPLe

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5. Run connector
frePPLe=>Odoo

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6. New Odoo procurement
and manufacturing orders

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Current status
 First set of users
Produces wooden furniture
Factory located in Indonesia
Employs >1000 people
Current planning spreadsheet of 35MB!
FrePPLe + Odoo will enable improved capacity
planning process and improved on time
delivery
Produces plasma cutting and welding equipment
Located in Germany
Employs around 400 people
Implementation partner Elego software solutions
FrePPLe + Odoo to generate detailed production
schedules

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Conclusions
… delivering business value to manufacturing
… opening up new opportunities in manufacturing

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Questions & answers
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