Case study

Odoo for distribution: three warehouses, one stock view

Each branch kept its own stock list, so head office never saw the real picture. Odoo put all three warehouses on one system.

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Results

37%Fewer stockoutsTo confirm · Internal measure
2xFaster order pickingTo confirm · Internal measure
28%Lower stock carrying costTo confirm · Internal measure
3Warehouses on one systemTo confirm · Internal measure

The three branches each kept a separate stock file.

When one ran out of a fast mover, nobody knew another branch had a shelf full of it. So they reordered, and dead stock piled up in one place while customers waited at another.

Stockouts on popular items even though total stock was sitting elsewhere.
Purchasing guessed at quantities with no shared demand view.
Pickers walked the warehouse with paper lists and made errors.
Head office waited days for a combined stock report.

One Odoo Inventory backbone across all branches

We set up each branch as a warehouse in one Odoo database.

Now everyone sees stock everywhere, and the system suggests transfers and purchases from real demand.

Live stock across all three sites on a single screen.
Reordering rules trigger purchase orders before items run dry.
Inter-branch transfers move stock to where the orders are.
Barcode picking replaced paper lists and cut mistakes.

Cleaned the data, then rolled out branch by branch

We started by merging three messy product lists into one clean catalog with shared codes.

Then we went live one branch at a time so each team learned the new picking flow before the next switched over.

The full rollout took ten weeks, with a TCB lead on site for each branch go-live.

Less stuck stock, faster orders out the door

Stockouts dropped by more than a third because purchasing finally worked from one demand picture.

Picking time halved with barcode scanning, and carrying cost fell as dead stock moved to the branches that needed it.

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