AccountingIs your ERP still supported?
Two deadlines are forcing manufacturers to choose a new system
Dynamics NAV 2017
Ends 11 Jan 2027
Sage 200 Manufacturing
Ended 31 Dec 2025
Manufacturers on Odoo with Smart IT
Odoo Gold Partner
36 Manufacturing References
ISO 27001 certified UK Hosting & Helpdesk
Sound familiar?
This week, a job started before the materials had arrived
It’s not your team’s fault. Orders, schedules, stock and accounts that don’t talk to each other make every busy week harder.
the schedule lived on a whiteboard.
nobody knew the real cost per job.
quality records were on paper.
month-end took a week.
our ERP went out of support.
“We’ve outgrown Sage, and I don’t want to do this again in five years.”
What owners tell us
“The schedule lives on a whiteboard and the stock figure is never right.”
What operations directors tell us
“I can’t tell you what that job actually cost us.”
What finance directors tell us
Stop stitching systems together. Run one.
Every order, wherever it comes from, drives the same plan, the same stock and the same books. We go live in phases, so production never stops.
Sales & Quotes 
B2B Web shop 
Barcode Scanners
Shop-floor tablets
Connect orders and the shop floor
Sales, purchasing, scanners and couriers, all joined to Odoo.
Sales order · 200 bracket kits
Work orders planned · materials reserved
Shortage? Purchase order raised
Every order plans the work
MRP schedules against real capacity and stock, so you stop finding shortages on the day.
Quality checkPassed
Job costPosted
VAT returnReady for HMRC
Check, cost and report
Quality, traceability and the real cost of every job land in the same books.
Everything a manufacturer needs, in one system
Odoo apps, Smart IT’s own products and the integrations manufacturers ask for most.
Odoo Manufacturing
Bills of materials, routings, work orders and multi-level MRP.
Planning and Shop Floor
Capacity planning, Gantt scheduling and tablets on the shop floor.
Inventory and Barcode
Multi-site stock, lots and serials, reorder rules and scanning.
Quality and Maintenance
Quality points, alerts and certificates; planned machine upkeep.
PLM
Engineering changes and BOM versions, with approvals.
Sales and B2B portal
Quotes, configurable products and a web shop for trade customers.
Courier labels and tracking from the delivery order.
Daily production and margin dashboards, with EMAsphere.
VAT returns submitted to HMRC from Odoo.
Accounting history from Xero, QuickBooks, Sage 50 or MYOB.
Support and Managed IT
Bronze to Gold plans, UK hosting, backups and ISO 27001 security.
Customer stories
Restrap
Still made in Yorkshire
Odoo MRP, planning and quality, live ahead of a 12-month deadline, with daily production reports.
Witham Group
Off Dynamics AX
Odoo instead of a costly Dynamics 365 upgrade, with blending and batch tracking automated.
GTT Europe
Live in eight weeks
End-to-end MRP for an IoT enclosure maker in the East Midlands.
The switch you keep putting off is smaller than you think
Here’s what manufacturers say first, and what actually happens.
“We can’t stop production.” We go live in phases: MRP and stock first, accounts after.
“We’ll lose our history.” Data migration is planned in the gap analysis, before anything moves.
“Big ERP costs a fortune.” Witham chose Odoo over a costly Dynamics 365 upgrade.
Step 1 · Systems review
Free
45 minutes with a manufacturing consultant, on your own process.
Step 2 · Gap analysis
Fixed quote
A written fit/gap, rollout plan and migration plan before you commit.
On Sage 200 Manufacturing or NAV? Ask us to help you create a plan: what moves, in what order, and when.
Looking at grants? We have experience helping business with digital transformation grants across England & Scotland
The things manufacturers ask before they switch
Something we missed? Ask us, an expert answers.
Book a systems review. We map what you run today and plan a phased move to Odoo, with your data.
No. Most manufacturers start with MRP, stock and quality, then move accounts in a second phase.
Odoo covers make-to-order, make-to-stock, batch and process manufacturing. The gap analysis shows exactly what fits and what needs configuring.
Yes. Work orders record labour, materials and machine time, and post the cost to Odoo Accounting.
Yes, from goods in to dispatch, with quality checks and certificates attached.
Our own UK helpdesk and the Smart IT Portal, on a fixed-price Bronze, Silver or Gold plan.
Schedule on a whiteboard? Fix it in one review.
In 45 minutes we map how orders, production, stock and accounts move today, then send you a written summary of what one system would change.
