Odoo by industry
Odoo by industry: the useful scope for your business
An ERP is not chosen from a list of features, but for its ability to absorb your real flows.
These five pages present Odoo by industry. For each major family of businesses, you will find the useful Odoo scope, the known friction points and the time to allow.
ANOR is an Odoo consulting and integration firm first and an integrator second: for an SME as for a mid-sized company, the ERP project starts with a free situation audit that records your real flows and sets the starting scope.
Odoo by industry: the five business families
Odoo for trading
Traders, wholesalers, importers. Purchasing, stock, customer price lists, real margin by item and by customer.
Odoo for distribution
Distributors, buying groups, resellers. Multi-warehouse stock, deliveries, channel prices, B2B orders.
Odoo for retail and e-commerce
Store networks and online merchants. Till, online shop, in-store pickup, a single stock across channels.
Odoo for service companies
Consulting, IT services, agencies, engineering firms. Projects, time spent, progress invoicing, profitability per assignment.
Odoo for industrial production
Manufacturers and subcontractors. Manufacturing orders, multi-level bills of materials, subcontracting, cost price.
Another business?
Your business mixes several families, or fits none. Let's talk with a consultant.
Which ERP for your SME or mid-sized company: how to choose your page
Start from your main flow, not from your activity code. A company that buys and resells is in trading. A company that moves products towards a network of resellers is in distribution. A company that sells on site and online is in retail. A company that sells time is in services. A company that transforms material is in production.
Mixed situations are common: a manufacturer that also sells in a shop, a service company that resells equipment. In that case, read both relevant pages. The Odoo scope is built app by app, as shown on the Odoo apps page.
What we say frankly
Odoo is an ERP for SMEs and mid-sized companies that suits trading, distribution, retail, service companies and manufacturing well. For highly regulated businesses already running mature vertical software, Odoo takes its place around that tool: sales management, purchasing, stock and accounting, linked by interface. We say so from the first conversation, before any commitment.
Your business doesn't fit any box? That's common and the 30-minute conversation exists precisely to qualify mixed situations.
What each industry page gives you about Odoo
- the Odoo scope that fits your business: sales management, inventory management, production management or project management
- the known friction points and how to handle them
- the order in which to deploy the apps
- the time to allow, to be checked against your situation during our conversation
To understand the overall approach, from organisation consulting to Odoo training and support, see our Odoo expertise.
Odoo 20 AI for every sector
Odoo 20 embeds AI in a particularly advanced way: AI agents in the applications, AI-computed fields and connection to external tools through the MCP protocol. Your sector benefit without heavy development: we check with you which uses bring a real gain before enabling them.
Questions about choosing an ERP by industry
The questions SME and mid-cap lead text-centerers ask before opening an industry page.
An ERP for SMEs must cover the company's main flow without locking it into a fixed scope. Odoo is assembled app by app: a trading SME starts with purchasing, stock and sales, a service company with projects and timesheets, a manufacturer with manufacturing. The first batch can start from 8 weeks.
The Odoo "Custom" licence costs €35.90 per user per month for the first year, then €44.90 from the second year, all apps included.
Yes. Multi-company is included: each company keeps its own accounts, the group reads a consolidated view. A multi-site mid-cap ERP project is split into batches, site by site or flow by flow, over a period of up to 12 months.
Because an ERP reproduces your processes: if they are vague, the tool freezes them. ANOR's organisation consulting records your flows and writes the scope and the order of batches before any configuration. The situation audit is free and the full process review takes 3 to 8 weeks.
Both. A manufacturer that sells in a shop reads production and retail, a distributor that imports reads distribution and trading. The Odoo scope is then assembled in the same project and the 30-minute conversation is there to qualify it.
Is your business mixed or atypical?
Thirty minutes are enough to qualify your situation and set a starting scope.