You can set up new products in your database that will efficiently track and monitor all actions to improve the inventory management of the relevant products using the Odoo18 Inventory module. The Sales and Purchase modules' and the Inventory module's processes for configuring products are essentially identical. For successful product management in Odoo18, you will receive a distinct menu called Products on the main menu bar of the Inventory.
The Products menu, as seen in the above image, has options for Products, Product Variants, Lots/Serial Number and Packages.
By selecting the items option, it is simple to see all configured items. The configuration of new products via the Products menu will be covered first.
The Kanban view of the product's platform is depicted in the image. On each product tab, you will find the names of the items as well as crucial details like the price, picture, quantity on hand, etc. You can add products to your Favorite list by selecting the star symbol. This will enable you to quickly and easily find all of your favorite products.
Odoo18 offers sophisticated sorting options across nearly all platforms. Additionally, you will find the Filters and Group By options in this window, which will allow you to quickly locate the necessary information regarding the product listed in the Inventory module.
The Filter option offers both standard and bespoke capabilities to find the necessary data. The default choices allow you to filter Services, Goods, Combo, Published, Inventory Management, Sales, Available Products, Negative Forecasted Quantity, Favourites, Warnings, Archived. You can add new custom filters to the products using the Add Custom Filter option. Similar choices for default and custom sorting are available in the Group By function as well. You can organize products based on the Product Type, Product Category. To build additional grouping options that meet your needs, use the Add Custom Group tool.
You can see a preview of the products in the list view, as shown below. The product name, internal reference, responsible, product tags, sales price, cost, quantity on hand, anticipated quantity, and unit of measurement are all included in the preview. You can expand the list view by selecting extra fields from the default selections, such as the Responsible, Ribbon, Barcode, Company, Product Category, Product Type. You can include custom fields in the list view by selecting the Add Custom Field option.
By selecting the necessary goods from the list, you can manage and change any product's details. As seen in the illustration below, the product details window can be seen.
Based on the data configured on the relevant goods, the user will receive sophisticated smart buttons in the products window. To manage other price lists for the product, click the Pricelists option. The On Hand button will display the inventory's available amounts. Similar to this, the Forecasted button will display information on the numbers that have been predicted. The movement history of the items in the inventory is shown by the In & Out button. When you click the More button, you'll see more possibilities for finding information on the product's Documents, Purchased, Used In, Reordering Rules, Putaway Rules and Storage Capacities.
Use the New button to create a new product and talk about the choices available in the product settings box. Odoo18 will direct you to the product setup window, as shown below, as soon as you click the New button on the product dashboard.
In the Product Name field, you can start by mentioning the name of the product. You are welcome to use the Star symbol to add this new item to your list of favorites. Choose the option Sale, if your Product can be sale. Choose the option Purchase, if your Product can be bought.
We have General Information, Attributes & Variants, Sales, Purchase, Inventory, Accounting, and eBay tabs to add more information about the product. Below is a link to the tab for general information.
You can select the Product Type from the available options on this page. You can view a list of the various product kinds from the drop down menu.
In Odoo18, you may keep track of several product versions and qualities so that the consumer has a variety of options to choose from. You can define the variations of a product that are already set up in Odoo18 by using the Add a Line buttons found under the Attributes & Variants page. Use the Configure option if you wish to add a new variant or attribute.
The Upsell & Cross-sell, Ecommerce Shop, Ecommerce Media, Quotation Descrption and Ecommerce Description can all be defined under the Sales tab. The Upsell and Cross-selling area offers clients suggestions for supplemental products, accessory products, and alternative products. Mention the Tags, Is Published, Categories, Out of Stock and Show available Qty attached to the product in the ECOMMERCE SHOP section.
Under the Purchase tab, further information about the product's purchase can be provided. The Add a Line button can be used to list the suppliers of this product. You can turn on the Subcontractor field if you plan to subcontract this product with the chosen vendor.
Product Configuration Windows's Inventory tap. This tab allows the Operations, Logistics, Description for receipts and Description for delivery orders.
