Use Cases / Context

In certain businesses, it is important to know the packaging you will use to manufacture a product. Example: food wholesale companies.

For example, imagine you want to create a food basket that includes, among other things, 1 kg of cheese. It is not the same to put it in small sliced and vacuum-packed 100g packages as it is to put a whole cheese ball. Even when the product and the total weight are the same: 1kg of cheese.

If you are interested in this module, you may also be interested in sale_packaging_default.

Configuration

To see the effects of this module, you need to:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Activate Inventory > Products > Product Packagings.
3. Optionally, activate also Units of Measure. This is not required, but if you are interested in this module, it’s probably because you use this.
4. Save.

Usage

Some component products must exist. Those components will be later included in the manufactured or kit product. Then, you’ll notice the module effects.

To create the component products:

1. Go to Inventory > Products > Products.
2. Create a product.
3. Configure its unit of measure (if you enabled that option).
4. Add some line(s) in Inventory > Packaging.

To use this module with a kit of products, you need to:

1. Go to Inventory > Products > Products.
2. Create a product that will be the kit.
3. Set Product Type “Consumable”.
4. Configure its unit of measure (if you enabled that option).
5. Enable Inventory > Operations > Routes > Manufacture.
6. Click on Bill of Materials button and create a new one.
7. Set BoM Type “Kit”.
8. Configure the rest of the BoM. When you configure the component lines, use the new Packaging and Packaging Qty fields.
9. Go to Inventory > Delivery Orders (three dots) > New > Planned Transfer.
10. Fill the Delivery Address.
11. Add one Operations line with the kit product you just created.
12. Click on Mark as TODO.
13. You will notice that the kit has been replaced by its components, and each component line includes the packaging and its qty, just like you configured them in the BoM.

To use it with a manufactured product, instead:

1. Go to Inventory > Products > Products.
2. Create a product; the one that will be manufactured.
3. Set Product Type “Storable Product”.
4. Configure its unit of measure (if you enabled that option).
5. Enable Inventory > Operations > Routes > Manufacture.
6. Click on Bill of Materials button and create a new one.
7. Set BoM Type “Manufacture this product”.
8. Configure the rest of the BoM. When you configure the component lines, use the new Packaging and Packaging Qty fields.
9. Go back to the product form.
10. Click on Reordering Rules button and create a new one.
11. Set some minimal and maximal quantities.
12. Click on Order Once. If you don’t see this button, you can also go to Inventory > Operations > Run Scheduler > Run Scheduler.
13. Go to Manufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders. You will see a new MO created from the reordering rule. Open it.
14. See how the Components lines contain packaging information, just like you defined it in the BoM. The same would happen if you created the MO manually.

Bug Tracker

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Credits

Maintainers

This module is maintained by the OCA.

OCA, or the Odoo Community Association, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and promote its widespread use.

Current maintainers:

This module is part of the OCA/manufacture project on GitHub.

You are welcome to contribute. To learn how please visit https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute.