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One Odoo core replaced four systems and cut month-end close from nine days to two

A three-plant manufacturer ran production, inventory, accounts and maintenance on four disconnected systems. We consolidated them into a single Odoo core with plant-floor data capture, cutting month-end close from nine days to two.

Client
Rieco Industries
Region
Ahmedabad, India
Timeline
5 months to go-live
Team
7 specialists

9 → 2 days

Month-end close cycle

4 → 1

Systems of record

31%

Reduction in unplanned downtime

100%

Transactions with real-time costing

Context

The situation we found

Process-equipment manufacturer with three plants and 480 employees

Engagement model: Fixed-scope implementation + AMC

Order-to-cash spanned a legacy accounting package, two spreadsheets-of-record and a homegrown production tracker. Costing was reconstructed manually after the fact, so leadership never saw true job profitability inside the quarter.

Challenge

What was blocking the business

The constraints that had to be resolved before any technology decision mattered.

Four systems of record with no shared item master or costing logic
Manual month-end reconciliation consuming nine working days of finance capacity
No real-time visibility of work-in-progress across three plants
Maintenance schedules tracked offline, causing unplanned downtime
GST compliance filings assembled by hand from exported CSVs

Approach

How we solved it

The decisions that produced the outcome, not a feature list.

Process discovery before configuration

Four weeks of on-site mapping across plants produced a single validated process model and a clean item and BOM master.

Odoo as the operational core

Manufacturing, inventory, purchase, sales, accounting and maintenance modules configured against the agreed model, with custom costing rules.

Shop-floor data capture

Tablet-based work order confirmation and barcode movement so WIP and consumption post in real time rather than at week's end.

Compliance automation

GST-ready invoicing, e-invoice generation and audit trails built into the transaction flow instead of bolted on at filing time.

Delivery roadmap

How the programme ran

  1. 01

    Discovery & process model · 4 weeks

    Plant walkthroughs, data audit, target process design and migration plan.

  2. 02

    Core configuration · 8 weeks

    Odoo modules, costing rules, chart of accounts and role-based access.

  3. 03

    Data migration & UAT · 5 weeks

    Master data cleansing, opening balances, parallel run and user training.

  4. 04

    Go-live & hypercare · 4 weeks

    Phased cutover by plant, on-site support and stabilisation.

Results

What changed after go-live

Measured in the client's own systems against the baseline captured in discovery.

Finance reclaimed roughly seven working days per month for analysis instead of reconciliation
Job-level profitability visible within the quarter, not after it
Preventive maintenance scheduling reduced unplanned line stoppages by 31%
GST filings assembled from system data with a complete audit trail

Client view

In their words

KoderClub replaced four disconnected systems with one Odoo core in five months. Month-end close went from nine days to two.

Rajesh Menon

Chief Operating Officer, Rieco Industries

Stack & integrations

What it was built on

Technology stack

OdooPostgreSQLPythonDocker

Integrations

Tally opening balancesE-invoice IRPBarcode scannersBanking statements

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Questions about this engagement

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