Using the connector in Odoo

After installation, users find the following additional features in odoo:

• The sales menu has a link to the frePPLe forecast editor screen.

  In this screen users can review and edit the sales forecast at different levels in the product, location, customer and time dimensions.
  
  Note that this screen is only available in the Enterprise Edition of frePPLe. When using the frePPLe Community Edition these links will result in a page-not-found error message.
• The inventory menu has a link to the frePPLe inventory planning screen.

  In this screen users can review and edit the stocking policies for each item location.
  
  Note that this screen is only available in the Enterprise Edition of frePPLe. When using the frePPLe Community Edition these links will result in a page-not-found error message.
• The manufacturing menu has a link to the frePPLe plan editor screen.

  In this screen an interactive Gantt chart is shown where users can review the plan and adjust where appropriate. Changes to the plan are automatically propagated to predecessor and successor production steps.
  
  Note that this screen is only available in the Enterprise Edition of frePPLe. When using the frePPLe Community Edition these links will result in a page-not-found error message.

• The manufacturing menu also contains a link to the complete frePPLe user interface.

• Because some manufacturing concepts do not exist in odoo, the manufacturing app has been enhanced to include following objects.

  1. Skills: The concept of skill where a work center can have one or more skill has been added into odoo. A skill link is visible in the Master Data menu. This table is equivalent to the frePPLe Skills table, used to define the available skills.

     

  2. Work Center Skill: This table is equivalent to the frePPLe Resource skills table. This table is used to assign skill(s) to a work center. A Work Center Skill link has been added in the Master Data menu.

     

  3. Work center owner: A new field owner has been added to the work centers (equivalent to the frePPLe Resources owner field). Owner field allows the planner to define a parent work center.

     

  4. Routing Work Center: In the Routing Work Center view of odoo, 3 new fields have been added: The Skill, Search Mode and Priority fields. This table is the equivalent to the frePPLe Operation resources table.