Odoo Experience

Minimax, a global leader in fire protection, has successfully transitioned its subsidiaries from SAP to Odoo, achieving greater efficiency and operational simplicity. This transformation highlights how Odoo’s robust and scalable ERP solution can seamlessly support large enterprises, even alongside SAP. As a special bonus, this talk will explore smooth SAP data migration strategies. With an annual turnover of €1.7bn and a workforce of around 9,000 employees worldwide, Minimax Viking Group operates in diverse industries—from automotive and power plants to logistics and data centers. As a company with multiple research, development, and manufacturing sites, Minimax required an agile yet comprehensive ERP system to manage its subsidiaries outside the SAP group structure. Odoo emerged as the ideal solution, offering seamless integration and scalability to meet complex enterprise needs. In collaboration with braintec, Minimax adopted a structured implementation approach using a carefully curated global template. The rollout followed a strategic progression: integrating individual company processes, incorporating core operations, and finally aligning with diverse market requirements. This method enabled Minimax to fully leverage Odoo’s All-in-One suite as a powerful, standalone solution. Join this session to gain insights into Minimax’s transition journey, key challenges, and best practices for large-scale Odoo implementations—especially for enterprises navigating SAP coexistence and migration. Odoo as a robust and versatile ERP software that caters to the complex needs of large corporations, offering seamless integration and scalability to improve efficiency, was the the best alternative on the market. And so Odoo was chosen to streamline the subsidiaries outside of the SAP Group structure. To implement Odoo, braintec provided Minimax with a step-by-step process considering a carefully curated global template. Initially, individual company processes were integrated into Odoo ERP, followed by core processes and ultimately all market requirements. This allowed Minimax to benefit from the full power of the Odoo All-in-One suite as a comprehensive software solution, outside the SAP group structure. Try Odoo online at https://www.odoo.com/r/xGhi

Learn how to effortlessly migrate all your Confluence content into Odoo Knowledge with just one click! In this session, we’ll show a practical solution for businesses using Confluence documentation and already working with, or planning to use, Odoo. Discover how this migration can save costs, streamline your processes, and make the most of your existing Odoo system. Whether you’re already an Odoo user or considering the switch, this talk will demonstrate just how easy and effective the transition can be. Try Odoo online at https://www.odoo.com/r/xGhi

Join us in a talk of optimisation and innovation at the Odoo Experience conference, as we uncover the strategic application of Odoo Studio prototyping to elevate both sales and workshops. This functional session will unveil the power of Odoo Studio in expediting sales processes by rapidly creating prototypes during client interactions. This streamlined approach accelerates decision-making and enhances the overall efficiency of the sales cycle. Venturing into the realm of workshops, we'll explore the dynamic potential of Odoo Studio to transform collaboration. Through real-time prototype collaboration, workshops become interactive platforms fostering engagement and innovative discussions. With the aim of empowerment, this presentation promises attendees actionable insights into the prototyping process, valuable tips, and effective strategies for optimizing Odoo Studio's capabilities. If you're eager to supercharge your sales strategies and revolutionize workshop dynamics, this session offers tailored insights and actionable takeaways for your consideration. This presentation is for anyone working in sales, business analysis, consulting, project management or similar roles. Try Odoo online at https://www.odoo.com/r/xGhi

In this panel discussion with the CEO of Odoo, Fabien Pinckaers, our Head of Project Leaders, Nathanael Leutenegger, discusses the future of the ERP market together with André Baker from Idealis and Johan Vlaminckx from Deloitte.

André Dragar, our project manager, presents how braintec uses Odoo tables to optimise a client's reporting process for the holding company. The transition from a complex Excel document to a clearly structured visualisation on the Odoo dashboard has significantly improved the efficiency of reporting. Find out how our solution has revolutionised a company's entire reporting process.

In this talk, our project manager, Daniel Göppner, shows how Odoo supports companies in their growth, using the example of the digital transformation of Salinen, a leading company in the salt industry in the tourism sector. We highlight the strategic steps, milestones and valuable insights of the project. Learn how Odoo can be used as an effective tool for growth and success in companies of all sizes.

Wie der Umgang mit frischen Waren gelingt, zeigt unser Projektleiter und Consultant, Max Walo. Lernen Sie, wie in Odoo Liefertermine und die Verfügbarkeit von Chargen analysiert werden, um die optimalen Lager- und Lieferdetails zu bestimmen. Dieser individuelle Workflow führt das standardisierte System mit Verfallsdatum weiterund bringt Transparenz sowie Effizienz.

Unser Projektleiter und Consultant, Andreas Stauder, gibt zusammen mit der SV Group Einblick in die Erfolgsgeschichte des führenden Gastronomiebetriebs. Vom Einkauf über die Lagerung bis hin zur Zubereitung von Gerichten und der Bewirtung der Gäste wurde mit Odoo ERP ein exzellentes Nutzerlebnis für alle Beteiligten geschaffen.

Damian Bürgin, unser Projektleiter und Consultant, präsentiert Strategien für multinationale Odoo-Implementierungen. Das  Framework von braintec umfasst Organisation von generischen Vorlagen als Basis für global standardisierte Module und Konfigurationen, die Zusammenarbeit mit lokalen Odoo-Partnern und weitere praktische Empfehlungen für internationale Odoo Rollouts.

Landi is one of the big retailers in Switzerland, organized in many local co-ops spread all over the country. Engrained in their DNA, is the close ties to their local customers, often from rural communities. Being founded by local farmers, this also manifests in their approach to eCommerce: When customers order, goods can be collected at the local store or delivered to their homes - but in any case, the order is always prepared in the local store, never in any central warehouse far away.

This created a solution that is very widespread and distributed in nature. A webshop that integrated with their existing website on one side and many interfacing systems for the fulfillment on the other hand - and all integrated with an existing IT landscape with master data coming together from different places - needed to be connected.

Here Odoo got the role as the cornerstone of the architecture. Every piece of information is routed through Odoo, which is the single source of truth for everything eCommerce.
Specifically, master data from different systems need to be handled and forwarded, every order is automated in Odoo and every step of the process is tracked in detail until the order is collected or delivered using one of the different delivery services and types. All customer communication through email, text, or push messages is centrally done through Odoo. Additionally, the Helpdesk app is used to handle all exceptions and customer inquiries centrally. Of course, the customer invoices and vendor bills are also automated and managed in Odoo.

For Landi, Odoo now does all the heavy lifting in the core of their eCommerce architecture that offers the 360° view of the operations as well as keeps the door open for dynamic and flexible development in the future.

This talk will give an overview of the architecture and deep dive into some remarkable details of the implementation that will be valuable to anyone thinking about using Odoo in an environment of existing other systems that need to be integrated.

Brain-tec developed an extension to the Helpdesk app to make the balanced ticket assignation more intelligent. It adds skills of the user and its attendance state as conditions relevant for assigning tickets. The module also provides the possibility to add a maximum number of tickets a user can be assigned.

The talk might be interesting for after-sales organizations that manage many agents (users) and customers (tickets).

Odoo provides you with the tools to maximize the knowledge of your employees. This talk focuses on the apps that allow you to empower your employees with advanced knowledge management.
Are you a project manager, product owner, or functional consultant? Then this talk is for you. You will learn how good knowledge management will allow you to do better Odoo projects.

Highlights:

Knowledge (new)
eLearning
Documents
Skills Management
In addition to those apps, this talk will highlight the features that allow you to embed knowledge in key processes. Examples:

Quality checks with detailed instructions.
Manufacturing orders with worksheets.
For Odoo projects, it is essential to have a strategy for knowledge building and training. For this reason, we will also address the following questions:

Who should you train?
When should you train?
How should you train?
Drawing from his experience at braintec, the biggest Odoo partner in Europe, Nicolas Frei will share insights gained in Odoo projects since 2014.

Target audience:
Project managers, product owners, and functional consultants

We can consider a document "audit-proof" if its content cannot be lost or modified once it is created.

Some countries, such as Germany [1], have rules which require some documents to be tracked in order to ensure, among others requirements, that they have not been modified.

We have developed a module which adds this functionality to Odoo.
- It gives a quick overview of the status of the files.
- It allows to select the models whose files will be audited by the company.
- It contain reports with information of the integrity of the files.

Key learnings:
We will introduce a module which implements audit-proof in Odoo, including examples, in order to show its potential.

Value to the audience:
You will learn what our module can do in order to use it in your Odoo (or to offer it to your customers in case of an Odoo partner) and forget about this topic.

Target audience:
Any people whose project is based on countries that require to audit the files in order to guarantee they follow the standards.

Bibliography:
[1] https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Downloads/BMF_Schreiben/Weitere_Steuerthemen/Abgabenordnung/2019-11-28-GoBD.html

Many projects need at some point to do massive and complex imports of data from their systems to Odoo.

In this cases, usually we find many different problems with the data quality given or it could be that we cannot match existing records already imported or created in the system, the import of massive data is too slow. Or we are not able to import and create all related models records at the same time, forcing us to plan for it and make the process slow and complex. Even more when an error occurs.

For example, trying to import products with their variants and attributes or categories, etc. Or Purchase Orders with their Lines on a single file.

For this reason, Braintec-group has developed a specific tool to extend and add new features to the existing Importing options given.

With this module, the users can:
- Import data for several related models at the same time from a single file.
- Import data on batches, or select different delimiters, or columns. Or define conditions to skip some lines or inactive records.
- Import data based on any field to compare existing records.
- Decide to import data based in another related model records.
- What actions this data needs to perform in the Database.
- Code a few lines in the import to transform the data or add new data before inserting it if needed. Or check that related records already exist in the Database to allow the import of the line.

And many more features. With almost endless possibilities. All supported by Job Queue.

The value to the audience is given in a demo explaining and showing how all these features work for the most typical situations where we can make use of them to make easier the import of massive data from our clients to an Odoo system.

Are you a trading company in need of offering volume pricing / scale pricing to your customers? Would you like to provide your customers with special prices if their orders amount to a specific quantity / volume? If the answer is yes, then this is your talk!

Standard Odoo pricelists allow you to define different sales prices for one product depending on the quantity you sell of that product. However, sometimes the price of a product does not depend on the quantity you sell of that product, but on the global quantity you sell in a whole sales order. Such a case is not covered by standard Odoo pricelists and that is why you need a specific Volume Pricing / Scale Pricing App.

Example of volume pricing / scale pricing:
- If your order contains 1-100 units of products A & B, the price of A is 10€ and the price of B is 15€.
- If your order contains 101-300 units of products A & B, the price of A is 9.50€ and the price of B is 14.50€.
- If your order contains more than 300 units of products A & B, the price of A is 9.00€ and the price of B is 14.00€.

Therefore, if your order contains 60 units of product A and 250 units of Product B, in total the order contains 310 units and thus, the prices applied are 9.00€ and 14.00€ respectively.

What does our app offer? It allows you to create scale pricing lists, which allows you to define the specific scale prices that a given customer has for a given set of products, defining for each product a specific validity period.


Key learnings:
- What is volume pricing / scale pricing?
- Limitations of standard pricelists
- Scale pricing app


Value to the audience:
- Managing volume pricing / scale pricing in any Odoo flavour (Community and Enterprise).


Target audience:
- Trading companies
- Companies wanting to boost their sales by offering scale prices
- Companies with complex pricing schemes

Braintec-group implemented a customised portal solution to digitally submit applications for the promotion of photovoltaic plants. Pronovo AG is a medium-size company responsible for processing and compensating of around 30000 subsidy applications of sustainable electricity producers per year. Therefore Pronovo AG is one of the key players in order to transform Switzerland into a sustainable, CO2 neutral country.

The tool consists of a frontend part (portal) and the backend part (where the subsidies are processed by Pronovo AG):

The Frontend part provides solutions for:
- User Registration and Management
- Dynamic Application Form for the subsidy
- Case form tempates in order to save time during the application

The Backend part provides solutions for:
- A rule based workflow engine to manage the applications
- Validation of the passed data including automated validation and integrated approval processes
- Integration of required third party system interfaces
- The administration of the dynamic application form
- The extended administration for portal users and and their roles
- Automated e-mails depending on the workflow of a case

With Odoo Pronovo AG is now way more efficient while processing and managing these applications.

Key learnings:
- How to provide dynamic portal views
- Digitalization of analog application processes

Value to the audience:
- Processing and digitalizing of applications of all kinds

Target audience:
- Project Managers, Consultannts, Clients