Preface

Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook provides a list of essential recipes and steps to configure and implement Odoo for your business, either on the Odoo online (SaaS) platform or installed locally on your hardware. This book will help you understand the value of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and the best practices and approaches for getting a system configured and using it in your organization. This book is only focused on the implementation of the Odoo applications in an organization. For new users or already experienced users, it can be a complete reference to major Odoo applications, such as sales, purchase, inventory, finance, and accounting, and manufacturing. New users or already experienced users can use this book to configure and implement the Odoo application— the Odoo Studio, an application used to configure existing views, reports, and automated business processes. It allows you to create a new application from scratch without entering any code; a non-developer can create and configure a new application using this studio.
Out of the two implementation approaches available, the big-bang approach is suitable for an enterprise with more than 50 users. For an enterprise with less than 50 users, Odoo offers an out-of-the-box approach on its online (SaaS) platform to implement Odoo using the Odoo Studio, by configuring the available enterprise application and customizing the views or reports if required for localization.
In this book, we have tried our best to cover most features of the Odoo enterprise applications that you are likely to use in your business. Unfortunately, there are just not enough pages to cover all topics. In Appendix, we have included an additional recipe that helps you install Odoo 10 on Ubuntu Linux, for using it onsite for customer needs, which cannot be achieved on Odoo online using the Odoo studio.
After the book is released, make sure to check for online updates in which we cover more advanced subjects.
Packt also offers other Odoo books that cover more advanced Odoo topics.