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Industries

Industries we work with

The same ERP platform behaves very differently depending on what a business does. These are the sectors whose operating patterns we design around.

Industry experience is not about having a template to apply. It is about knowing which questions matter early: where margin actually leaks, which number the management team does not currently trust, and which process will quietly break under seasonal load. Below is how that plays out in the sectors we work with most.

Retail & Distribution

Stock you can trust across every outlet

Retail and distribution businesses usually run into the same wall: the point of sale, the warehouse and the accounts each hold a different version of the truth. Reconciling them becomes a monthly ritual that absorbs the finance team and still leaves margin unexplained.

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Where we focus

  • Point of sale reconciling directly to stock and the ledger
  • Real-time visibility across outlets and storerooms
  • Price list and promotion control from one place
  • Reorder rules tuned to supplier lead times
  • Margin reporting by product, category and outlet

Hospitality & Tourism

Operations across dispersed properties

Resorts and guesthouses run procurement, stores, maintenance and finance across sites that may be an hour apart by boat. Head office needs consolidated visibility without forcing every property to wait on a connection to do its job.

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Where we focus

  • Procurement and approval flows spanning properties
  • Store and consumables management per site
  • Maintenance scheduling for assets and facilities
  • Consolidated finance with per-property reporting
  • Configurations tolerant of intermittent connectivity

Trading & Wholesale

Knowing the true landed cost of every import

For importers and wholesalers, profitability is decided by costing accuracy. Freight, duty, clearing and handling need to land on the right goods, or every margin figure downstream is approximately wrong in an unknown direction.

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Where we focus

  • Landed cost allocation across shipments
  • Supplier lead time and reliability tracking
  • Multi-currency purchasing and exchange handling
  • Bulk and break-bulk unit of measure handling
  • Customer pricing tied to real cost

Manufacturing

Production connected to stock and costing

Manufacturers need the shop floor and the ledger to agree. When bills of material, work orders and consumption are tracked in the same system as inventory and accounting, production cost stops being an estimate.

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Where we focus

  • Multi-level bills of material and routings
  • Work order tracking by work centre
  • Component consumption and scrap recording
  • Quality control at defined checkpoints
  • Standard versus actual cost variance analysis

Professional Services

Project profitability you can see while it still matters

Consultancies, agencies and professional firms sell time. If billable hours, costs and invoicing live in separate places, project profitability only becomes visible once the project is finished and it is too late to act.

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Where we focus

  • Timesheet capture against tasks and projects
  • Billable versus non-billable analysis
  • Milestone, retainer and time-based invoicing
  • Project budget tracking during delivery
  • Resource planning and utilisation

Construction

Cost control held at the site level

Construction businesses carry risk at the site: materials consumed, subcontractors engaged and variations agreed on the ground, often faster than the paperwork follows. Cost control depends on capturing that where it happens.

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Where we focus

  • Budget and actual cost tracked per site
  • Subcontractor engagement and certification
  • Material requisition, issue and return
  • Variation and change order handling
  • Progress billing against completed work

Not on the list?

Sector experience matters, but it is not a prerequisite

Odoo is used across a far wider range of industries than the six above, and a careful discovery process substitutes well for prior exposure to your particular trade. If your business does not fit neatly into any of these categories, that is a reason to talk to us rather than a reason not to.

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