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Use Odoo Manufacturing to manage bills of materials, plan work orders, run the shop floor on tablets and see the real cost of each production order.
Odoo Manufacturing (Odoo MRP) suits small and mid-size UAE factories in places such as Dubai Industrial City, KEZAD or RAKEZ that need multi-level bills of materials, work centre scheduling, tablet-based shop floor operation and real production costing. Manufacturing orders reserve components, record actual time and material use, and post finished goods at component, labour and overhead cost to accounting.
Odoo Manufacturing UAE projects usually involve small and mid-size factories in Dubai Industrial City, Dubai Investment Park, Sharjah, Ajman, KEZAD or RAKEZ: food and beverage producers, packaging plants, furniture and joinery workshops, metal fabricators and cosmetics makers. They often run production from spreadsheets and whiteboards, which works until orders grow, raw material prices move and nobody can say what a finished item really cost.
Odoo's Manufacturing app (often called Odoo MRP) is built on bills of materials and work centers. A confirmed sales order or a reorder rule creates a manufacturing order, which reserves components from stock, schedules operations on work centers and records actual time and material use. When the order is done, finished goods enter stock at a cost made of components, labor and overhead, and accounting entries follow automatically.
Around the core app sit related Odoo apps: Quality for inspection points, Maintenance for machine upkeep, PLM for engineering change orders, and the Master Production Schedule for longer-range planning. Several of these are Enterprise only. If you are still comparing systems, see our best manufacturing ERP buying guide.
The products we configure, integrate and support on projects like this one.
Odoo Manufacturing
Odoo Maintenance
Odoo Invoicing / Accounting
Odoo Sales
Odoo CRM
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Production planners see manufacturing orders by state and work center, with component availability shown before anything is started.
This is a typical sequence for a UAE manufacturer producing against customer orders.
One shared database: every step updates stock, finance and reports in real time.
The features we configure most for UAE factories, from simple assembly to multi-stage batch production.
Multi-level BoMs with variants, by-products, kits and phantom assemblies, plus versioning when recipes change.
Define machines and lines with capacity, working hours and hourly cost, then route each product through its operations.
Operators start, pause and finish work orders on a tablet, view instructions and record scrap and quantities.
Plan orders against work center capacity and use the Master Production Schedule in Enterprise for demand-based planning.
Quality points trigger checks at receipt, during operations or before shipping, with pass or fail results and alerts.
Preventive and corrective maintenance requests for equipment linked to work centers, so downtime is planned.
Send components to a subcontractor, receive finished goods back and track stock held at their site.
Compare expected and actual cost per order, including components, labor time and work center overhead.
Manufacturing data flows into and out of several other apps and devices.
Odoo records the data that regulators, auditors and customers ask for. Confirm tax treatments with your tax advisor.
Input VAT on imported raw materials and 5% output VAT on local sales are posted through purchase bills and customer invoices, feeding the quarterly VAT report.
Factories in free zones may qualify for 0% on qualifying income if they meet the conditions for Qualifying Free Zone Persons. Separate analytic tracking of activities and customers in Odoo helps your advisor assess this.
Food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical producers often need to trace a finished batch back to raw material lots. Lot tracking on components and finished goods provides that record for authority inspections and recalls.
Quality checks and certificates of analysis stored against lots support conformity requirements and customer audits, such as those linked to Emirates conformity schemes where they apply to your products.
General information, not tax or legal advice. Rules change; confirm current FTA, MOHRE and Ministry of Finance guidance with your advisor.
What we have learned from setting up Odoo MRP in UAE factories.
Explore industry pages, comparisons and related Odoo apps for production companies.
We configure the system for the rules UAE businesses report against, and test it before go-live.
General information, not tax or legal advice. Confirm current requirements with the FTA, MOHRE or your advisor. See all UAE compliance guides.
On-site workshops in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, and remote or on-site delivery across the Northern Emirates and free zones.
Official sources and references
Facts on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. Rules change, so confirm current requirements before acting.
Still have a question? Our consultants are happy to help.
Ask an ExpertBasic manufacturing orders and bills of materials are in Community. The shop floor app, Master Production Schedule, PLM, Quality and Maintenance with full features are Enterprise only, which most factories end up needing.
Yes, for many batch processes such as food, chemicals and cosmetics, using BoMs with by-products, lot tracking and scrap. Highly complex process industries with potency or catch-weight rules may need customization, which we assess upfront.
Odoo combines component costs from inventory valuation with work center time multiplied by hourly cost. You can compare the expected BoM cost with the actual cost recorded on each manufacturing order.
Yes. The shop floor view is designed for tablets mounted at work centers, with large buttons, instructions and quantity entry. Barcodes can be used to start orders quickly.
Both cover BoMs, work orders and costing well for small and mid-size factories. The choice often depends on budget, licensing preferences and how much customization you need; our ERPNext vs Odoo for manufacturing comparison covers the differences in detail.
Yes. Supplier lead times on each component let Odoo calculate when purchase orders must be placed to meet a manufacturing order date. For imported materials with long shipping times, we set safety stock and reorder rules so production is not held up waiting at the port.
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