Project Name
Streamlining Order Processing in Textile with a Custom Odoo Solution
Overview
Our client is a leading manufacturer and trader of apparel and operates across three different segments – retail, wholesale, and distribution – with 1,000 unique product lines. The system they relied on was not easy to use and did not meet their requirements, resulting in manual inventory management and more errors. The client was looking for a comprehensive solution to minimize manual efforts required in managing inventory, reduce operational costs, and process orders faster.
Challenges
The client was processing more than 10,000 orders per day; but faced challenges in supply chain, inventory, and warehouse management. The key challenges they were facing included:
- Difficulty in tracking inventory due to the absence of a proper system.
- Inefficiency in locating products and fulfilling orders due to a lack of organized inventory arrangements.
- Products were placed randomly and their details were maintained manually on a whiteboard.
- Errors in vendor-updated data.
- Visibility of unnecessary information in the outdated application.
- Manual management of different operational methods for tracking packaged and loose products.
- No data was captured from barcodes using handheld scanners.
- Random placement of inventory using manual methods.
- Difficulting in tracking products with over 1,000 unique SKUs.
- Lack of integration between the database and website.
- Manual coordination with vendors for ordering, supplying, and manufacturing t-shirts, maintained through a third-party app with a non-user-friendly interface.
- Increased errors delayed processes, causing the company to lose business to competitors.
Our Solution
Our Odoo experts recommended the Odoo platform to address the client’s above challenges. Here’s the solution our skilled Odoo team designed and developed:
- Customized backend on Odoo for retail and wholesale order fulfillment.
- Developed a warehouse transfer module using a separate framework for tracking stock and managing the internal movement of boxes.
- Applied restriction logic for wholesale order fulfillment.
- Developed a complete flow for executing the warehouse operations like tracking inventory, pick-up, quality check, shipping label generation, and shipping method for global and local shipping.
- Built a new system (PWA) using Odoo 15 for product and location scanning through QR codes, streamlining the fulfillment process, which was not available in their legacy system.
- Developed is a highly intuitive application that easily fetches information on a product’s location within the warehouse, allowing users to quickly check the exact shelf, rack, or bin.
- Designed a new system and are moving all operations onto the Odoo 17 EE version.
- Connected the vendor portal with Odoo using a third-party API.
- Configured the backend logic for the vendor portal using Odoo to simplify the manufacturing process.
- Customized the warehouse application to sync and update all information provided by the vendor, including yarn, fabric, manufacturer details, and dye.
- Developed a dynamic module for managing orders received from distributors via STP mode in the EASI format.
- 60% faster order processing compared to their old system.
- 85% reduction in data errors due to the user-friendliness of the application.
- Enhanced team productivity with Odoo’s centralized repository.
- 3X faster scanning and quality checks due to QR codes.
- Quick identification of inventory and available storage with the updated application’s storage location mapping feature.
- Accurate submission of data from manufacturing vendors, removing the need for rechecking.
- No need for multiple visits to pick up orders.
- Increased customer and employee satisfaction.
Data Flow Diagram
Conclusion
With our custom solution, the client improved the order processing capacity and was able to fulfill more orders in a day. Also, our solution simplified inventory tracking within the warehouse, saving manual efforts and valuable time to search for and locate each product. By configuring the client’s vendor portal using Odoo, we simplified the manufacturing process, enhanced team productivity, and reduced data errors. All these resulted in maximized customer and employee satisfaction.
Streamline Inventory Management Operations
in Textile with Custom Odoo Solutions!
Streamline Inventory Management Operations
in Textile with Custom Odoo Solutions!
