Aluminum Cutting Optimizer

by Digital Economics LLC. , Eng. Ahmed Nasreldin

$ 990.89

v 18.0 Third Party

Availability	Odoo Online Odoo.sh On Premise
Odoo Apps Dependencies	• Inventory (stock) • Manufacturing (mrp) • Sales (sale_management) • Discuss (mail) • Invoicing (account)
Lines of code	4846
Technical Name	`de_mrp_cutting_planner`
License	OPL-1
Website	https://de.com.eg

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Availability	Odoo Online Odoo.sh On Premise
Odoo Apps Dependencies	• Inventory (stock) • Manufacturing (mrp) • Sales (sale_management) • Discuss (mail) • Invoicing (account)
Lines of code	4846
Technical Name	`de_mrp_cutting_planner`
License	OPL-1
Website	https://de.com.eg

Description
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Aluminum Cutting Optimizer

+20 150 906 1111

Aluminum Cutting Optimizer

محسّن قطع الألومنيوم

Sales → Costing → MRP: End-to-end cutting optimization that minimizes material waste, accurately costs quotations, and auto-generates production orders.

Reduce Material Waste

Accurate Quotation Costing

Auto MRP Generation

QR Cutting Sheets

The Problem We Solve | المشكلة التي نحلها

Without This Solution

Manual cutting calculations on spreadsheets or paper
15-25% material waste from unoptimized bar assignments
Inaccurate quotation pricing based on guesswork
Disconnected workflow: sales team cannot see production impact
No traceability from quotation dimensions to shop-floor cuts
Hours wasted manually creating cutting sheets for each order

With Digital Economics Solution

Industrial-grade BFD + local search algorithm optimizes automatically
Typically 5-12% material waste with optimal bar assignments
Real-time cost calculations based on actual optimized plan
Seamless Sales → Planning → MRP workflow in Odoo
Full traceability: SO line → demand → bar → cut → MO
QR-coded cutting sheets generated in seconds

How It Works | كيف يعمل

Configure Products

Set up raw bars and demand rules

Enter Dimensions

Length/Width on quotation lines

Optimize

One-click bar optimization

Cost & Approve

Review costs and approve plan

Confirm SO

MO created automatically

Print & Cut

QR cutting sheets for shop floor

Who Is This For? | لمن هذا الحل؟

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Aluminum Fabricators

Window/door/curtain wall manufacturers who cut aluminum profiles from standard bar stock

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Steel & Metal Workshops

Any operation cutting linear profiles (steel bars, PVC extrusions, tubes) to order

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Production Planners

Teams that need optimized material planning with accurate costing before order confirmation

Key Features

SO Line Dimension Capture

Sales reps enter Length and Width (mm) directly on quotation lines. Dimensions flow automatically into the cutting plan. Default widths can be pre-configured per profile.

Configurable Demand Rules

Define how each finished product maps to raw bar cuts: fixed length, from SO line length/width, or custom Python formula. Set multipliers, allowances, and rounding per rule.

Industrial Optimization Algorithm

Best-Fit Decreasing (BFD) heuristic + local search refinement. Handles kerf, trim start/end, multiple stock lengths, finish grouping constraints, and bar downsizing. Fully deterministic.

Quotation Costing

Automatic cost computation: material cost (bars used), scrap recovery credit, and cutting overhead (time × workcenter rate). Costs display on the quotation for informed pricing.

Approval Workflow

Configurable thresholds for waste % and total cost. Plans exceeding thresholds require manager approval before SO can be confirmed. Full audit trail with approver and timestamp.

Auto MRP Generation

On SO confirmation, a Manufacturing Order is automatically created from the approved cutting plan with all bars linked. No manual MO creation needed.

QR-Coded Cutting Sheets

Print production-ready cutting sheets per bar: visual bar diagram with proportional cut positions, detailed cut table, QR code linking back to Odoo for paperless tracking.

Offcut & Variance Tracking

Remainders auto-classified as reusable offcuts or scrap. After production, enter actual bars used and waste for variance analysis: estimated vs. actual material consumption.

Configurable Optimization Objective

Choose how each profile is optimized: Minimize Waste, Balanced, Minimize Operation Time, Maximize Reusable Leftover, or Custom Weights. A fill-to-the-brim packer consolidates leftovers into one large reusable offcut and cuts down measure-tape adjustments — matching the production manager’s manual method.

Plan from Sales, MRP, or Manually

Cutting is decoupled from Sales. Plan directly from a Manufacturing Order, or enter demand by hand. A top-level MO explodes its BOM through manufactured sub-assemblies and creates one cutting plan per cutting-enabled component — each optimized and approved independently.

Variant-Based Cut Lengths

Read the cut length straight from a product variant attribute (e.g. “Length”). One product family with length variants is cut without creating a separate reference per size.

Offcut Reuse from Inventory

Reusable bar remainders are tracked as real inventory (stock lot + quant) and consumed by future plans before opening new full-length bars. A dedicated Offcut Inventory view shows Available / Reserved / Consumed status; put offcuts away to bins and print barcode labels (PDF or ZPL) for shop-floor storage.

Multi-Order Batch Optimization

Consolidate several sales orders into one shared cutting plan so bars are packed across orders for less waste. A wizard (and a Sales Order list action) builds the batch; shared Manufacturing Orders are created once when the first order confirms.

Analytics Dashboards

A live KPI dashboard (utilization, waste, material cost, offcut recovery, bars and length) with charts, a date-range filter and drill-down — plus a native spreadsheet dashboard over Cutting Plans for your own pivots and charts.

Drag-and-Drop Bar Editor

Fine-tune an optimized layout by hand: drag cuts between bars, reorder, and add or remove bars — with kerf-aware, same-profile fit validation. Edited plans are flagged “manually adjusted”; re-optimizing rebuilds and clears the flag.

Raw Material Parameters

Parameter	Description
Stock Bar Lengths	Multiple stock lengths supported (e.g., 6000, 6500, 7000mm)
Kerf Width	Material lost per blade cut (mm)
Trim Start/End	Unusable ends of each bar (mm)
Min Remainder	Threshold to classify leftover as offcut vs. scrap
Scrap Value %	Cost recovery percentage for scrap material
Cutting Workcenter	MRP workcenter for overhead calculation

Role-Based Security

Sales User

Enter dimensions, view plans

Costing User

Run optimization, manage rules

Production User

View plans, print cutting sheets

Cutting Manager

Full access, approve plans

Frequently Asked Questions

الأسئلة الشائعة

What types of materials does this module support?

The module solves the 1D cutting stock problem, so it works with any linear material: aluminum profiles, steel bars, PVC extrusions, tubes, timber, cable trays, etc. Any material cut from standard-length stock into shorter pieces.

Can I have multiple stock bar lengths for the same material?

Yes. You can configure multiple stock lengths (e.g., 6000mm, 6500mm, 7000mm) separated by commas. The optimizer automatically selects the most efficient bar length for each assignment, and can downsize bars to shorter lengths when possible.

How accurate is the optimization algorithm?

The module uses an industrial Best-Fit Decreasing (BFD) heuristic combined with local search refinement. BFD is one of the best-known practical algorithms for 1D bin packing. The local search phase further improves results by attempting bar elimination and cut swaps. The algorithm is fully deterministic: identical input always produces identical output.

Does it handle kerf (blade thickness) and trim waste?

Yes. The optimizer accounts for kerf width (material lost per cut), trim at bar start and end (unusable edges), and correctly calculates N-1 kerfs for N cuts on a bar. All these parameters are configurable per raw material product.

Can I re-optimize if the quotation changes?

Yes. Simply create a new cutting plan version. The system automatically increments the version number and marks previous plans as Outdated. Each plan version is preserved for audit purposes.

Does it support 2D sheet cutting (glass, sheet metal)?

No. This module specifically solves the 1D cutting stock problem (linear bar/profile cutting). For 2D sheet nesting, a different algorithm approach would be needed. Contact us if you have 2D requirements.

Is Arabic language fully supported?

Yes. The module includes complete Arabic (ar_001) translations for all fields, labels, menus, error messages, and reports. RTL layout is supported.

Which Odoo edition does it work with?

The module works with both Odoo 18 Community and Enterprise editions. It requires the Sales Management (sale_management), Manufacturing (mrp), Sale MRP (sale_mrp), Inventory (stock) and Spreadsheet Dashboard (spreadsheet_dashboard) modules — all standard in Odoo 18 Community.

Can I plan cutting without a Sales Order?

Yes. Cutting is decoupled from Sales. You can plan cutting directly from a Manufacturing Order, or create a manual plan and enter demand by hand. When a top-level (assembly) MO is planned, its Bill of Materials is exploded through manufactured sub-assemblies and one cutting plan is created per cutting-enabled component — each optimized and approved on its own.

Can I control how the optimizer balances waste, time, and reuse?

Yes. Each raw profile has an Optimization Objective: Minimize Waste Only, Balanced, Minimize Operation Time, Maximize Reusable Leftover, or Custom Weights. The optimizer evaluates a waste-optimal layout and a fill-to-the-brim layout and keeps whichever scores lowest on your chosen objective — trading raw waste against setup time (measure-tape adjustments) and the size of the largest reusable offcut.

Are leftover offcuts reused automatically?

Yes. When a plan is approved, qualifying remainders are saved as reusable offcuts in inventory (a stock lot + on-hand quant). Future optimizations consume available offcuts before opening new full-length bars. You can review and manage them under Cutting Optimization → Offcut Inventory, and toggle the behaviour with the “Reuse Offcuts in Optimization” setting.

Can I optimize several sales orders together?

Yes. The Batch Optimize wizard (also available from the Sales Orders list Action menu) consolidates two or more orders into one shared plan so bars are packed across orders. The plan becomes active on every batched order, and the shared Manufacturing Orders are created once when the first order is confirmed.

Can I tweak a layout manually after optimizing?

Yes. On an optimized plan, click Edit Layout to open the visual drag-and-drop editor: move cuts between bars, reorder them, and add or remove bars, with kerf-aware fit validation. Manually edited plans are flagged; re-optimizing rebuilds the layout and clears the flag. A KPI dashboard and a spreadsheet dashboard are also provided for analytics.

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شريك أودو الذهبي في مصر

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Successful International Implementations

مشروع دولي ناجح

93%

Retention

Client Retention for 5+ Years

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Release Information

معلومات الإصدار

Version	18.0.2.9.0
Release Date	May 2026
License	OPL-1
Author	Digital Economics LLC
Category	Manufacturing
Odoo Version	18.0 (Community & Enterprise)

Changelog v18.0.2.9.0 (Latest)

Scrap Inventory — cutting remainders too short to be reusable offcuts are now tracked as `stock.lot` records with on-hand qty, location and valuation
Auto-create scrap on approval — new cutting.auto_create_scrap setting (default ON) spins up scrap lots and books a positive stock.quant at the configured scrap location
Scrap cancel-revert — cancelling an approved plan reverts the on-hand qty for every scrap lot it created
Scrap label PDF — barcode + length + source-plan label, mirrors the offcut label
Raw Materials menu — new Cutting > Raw Materials > Raw Profiles list showing stock lengths, on-hand qty, forecasted, UoM and standard price for every raw profile
Valuation formula — scrap_value = raw_cost × (length / stock_length) × cutting_scrap_value_pct
New tests (test_scrap.py) covering auto-create, cancel-revert and valuation paths

Changelog v18.0.2.8.0

Offcut put-away — relocate offcuts to a bin/location and track where each is stored
Configurable label format — print offcut labels as a PDF sheet or ZPL for label printers

Changelog v18.0.2.7.0

Offcut barcode labels — print shop-floor labels (product, length, lot, source plan, Code128 barcode) from Offcut Inventory
Richer spreadsheet dashboard — added a Cutting-Plans-by-Status pivot and four scorecards (plans, bars, waste, cost)

Changelog v18.0.2.6.0

Pre-populated spreadsheet dashboard — bars by month, cost by month and waste by status charts over Cutting Plans
Statistic and cost fields exposed as aggregatable graph/pivot measures

Changelog v18.0.2.5.0

Drag-and-drop bar editor — visually move cuts between bars, reorder, add/remove bars, with kerf-aware fit validation
Plans flagged "manually adjusted" after hand edits; re-optimizing rebuilds and clears the flag

Changelog v18.0.2.4.0

Analytics dashboard — KPI cards (utilization, waste, cost, offcut recovery) with charts and date-range filter, plus drill-down
Native spreadsheet dashboard over Cutting Plans for custom pivots and charts

Changelog v18.0.2.3.0

Multi-order batch optimization — consolidate several sales orders into one shared cutting plan so bars are packed across orders
Batch Optimize wizard (and Sales Order list action); shared MOs created once across the batch

Changelog v18.0.2.2.0

Offcut reuse from inventory — reusable bar remainders are tracked as real inventory (stock lot + quant) and consumed by future plans before opening new full-length bars
New Offcut Inventory view with Available / Reserved / Consumed status, plus reuse settings

Changelog v18.0.2.1.1

Completed Arabic (ar_001) translations for all new fields, objectives, and messages
Resolved duplicate field-label warnings on Sales Order and Manufacturing Order

Changelog v18.0.2.1.0

BOM-driven cutting — a top-level Manufacturing Order explodes its BOM through manufactured sub-assemblies and creates one cutting plan per cutting-enabled component, each optimized and approved independently
Per-component plan versioning — approving one component’s plan never supersedes another’s

Changelog v18.0.2.0.0

Configurable optimization objective — Minimize Waste, Balanced, Minimize Operation Time, Maximize Reusable Leftover, or Custom Weights per profile
Fill-to-the-brim packer that consolidates leftovers into one large reusable offcut and reduces measure-tape adjustments
Plan source decoupled from Sales — plan cutting directly from a Manufacturing Order or enter demand manually
Variant-based cut lengths — read the cut length from a product variant attribute (e.g. “Length”)
One Manufacturing Order created per finished product on confirmation (fixes dropped MOs)
“All Cuts” per-piece detail table added to the Cutting Plan Summary report

Changelog v18.0.1.0.0

Initial release for Odoo 18.0
Product enablement with full cutting parameters
SO line dimension capture (Length/Width)
Configurable demand rules with multiple formula types
BFD + local search optimization algorithm
Versioned cutting plans with state machine
Material costing with scrap recovery and overhead
Approval workflow with configurable thresholds
Auto MO generation on SO confirmation
QR-coded cutting sheets with visual bar diagrams
Offcut vs. scrap classification
Variance reporting (estimated vs. actual)
4 security roles with multi-company support
Full Arabic language support (ar_001)

Roadmap

Offcut reservation visibility on the shop-floor cutting sheets
Direct-to-printer label dispatch (IoT / network label printers)

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