Odoo 15: The ERP innovation leader

With this release of the most innovative ERP solution in the last few years, Odoo is setting the new standard for companies of all sizes. More than a hundred evolutions and improvements have been made in Odoo 15 by the editor. The complete detail here.

Let's have a closer look at the main points of interest.
 

Ergonomics, productivity and communication

Users and managers will be (even more) convinced!

• from a cross-functional point of view, for all Odoo modules:
  • real time collaboration: you can see who is writing/editing live on a task description field or on integrated spreadsheets, for example 
  • an automatic “save” feature has been added Odoo Discuss: direct integration of audio and video calls 
• Odoo Studio: ability to edit graphical views
• Gmail and Outlook add-ons to create tasks, leads and tickets directly from your favorite inbox

Inventory, stock management, Odoo WMS

With Odoo v15, inventory management gets a lot of additional and optimized functionalities:

• several types of picking are now possible: batch picking, wave picking, cluster picking
• ability to easily and quickly receive several different orders at the same time
• SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code) support useful for the use of barcodes on logistic units (pallets...); this goes hand in hand with GS1 support in general
• stock reservations can now be either automatic, manual or triggered X days before the scheduled date
• "Product Locator: scan an item and Odoo shows where it is located

Many additional improvements on logistics have been integrated in Odoo Moove, an OCA suite of add-on modules that was developed by Camptocamp in 2019 and 2020 for a major health-logistics company in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
 

Physical point of sale: Odoo POS

Odoo version 15 adds the following new functionalities that are important for a modern retailer in their store:

• generation, sale and use of gift vouchers, with the possibility to be used either in the physical store or on the webshop
• placing an order via Odoo e-commerce or in the back-end with the possibility for the customer to pick it up in the store
• possibility to offer the customer a later delivery if he doesn’t want to take the purchased goods immediately
• creation of product packs with dedicated barcodes
• customers may pay later or in instalments 
• import of quotes and orders made outside of the point of sale
• addition of notes to any article on the receipt
• for Switzerland mainly: standard integration of Six Payment Services for credit card payment
   

Project management

The most notable evolutions are the following:

• the concept of dependencies between tasks and the calculation by Odoo of the critical path, will make you a project management pro!
• definition of project steps and milestones
• Odoo 15 allows you to create private tasks, visible only to you
• 360° project view with multiple monitoring indicators and periodic reviews, including a burndown chart.