MRPeasy vs Odoo

MRP functionality

MRP 2 – full-blown Manufacturing Resource Planning. Manufacturing ERP with production scheduling functionality:

• Capacity planning,
• Materials planning,
• Routings,
• Automatic operations scheduling based on available resources and lead times of materials,
• Calendars, Gantt charts,
• Drag-and-drop rescheduling,
• Multi-level manufacturing orders.

MRP 1 – Material Requirements Planning:

• Simplistic, but not easy and not powerful.
• Manual scheduling of manufacturing operations.
• No automatic scheduling based on materials availability, lead time, and workstation capacity.
• Difficult to manage complex products and production processes.

Inventory management, traceability

Automated forward and backward lot number tracking.

Automatic creation of stock lots.

Automatic incrementation of manufactured product serial number, according to last serial number.

Semi-manual lot tracking.

Manual entry of stock lots.

Manual entry of serial numbers.

CRM, sales

Full overview of order processing from quotation to shipping.

Cost and delivery date estimation functionality.

Limited overview of the order fulfilment process after sale is won. Designed for active sales (inside/outside sales).

No estimation functionality for manufacturing cost and lead time.

Procurement

Time-phased purchase requirements reports.

Detailed PO tracking through various processing and delivery stages.

Purchase invoices.

Limited overview of purchase requirements.

Shop-floor reporting

“My production plan” for highly detailed access, for tablets and computers.

“Internet-kiosk” for simplified access, designed for smartphones.

No simplified shop-floor reporting interface.

Accounting

Automated Work in Progress (WIP) accounting, which includes direct materials, direct labor, and applied manufacturing overhead.

Limited Work in Progress (WIP) accounting.

User interface

Simple and streamlined.

A lot of screens and dialogues.

Module-based.

Clustered.

Target customer

Manufacturing companies with 10-200 employees.

As manufacturing module is only an add-on, not the focus of the software, a manufacturing client is not the main target customer.

Functionality is mainly designed for service, wholesale, and retail companies.

Support materials

Detailed User Manual.

Contextual help in software.

Detailed training videos.

Simplistic User Manual.

Simplistic training videos.

Mainly not focused on the needs of a manufacturing company.

Implementation

Manufacturing professionals are able to implement the software independently, without the need of consultants.

Due to the very modular nature, it is not easy to implement Odoo at a real manufacturing company without the help of software specialists.

The code probably needs to be customized a lot.

Add-on modules from 3rd parties probably need to be bought extra.

First in the world cloud-based Manufacturing ERP for small manufacturers.

An open-source platform, where modules/apps are developed by community members with different interests, not following a centralized strategy.