Way to Go, Mr. Horiba! — An Illustrated Odoo Adoption Story

A Japanese adaptation of an illustrated Odoo introduction created in 2015. These slides are in Japanese. With almost no jargon, it follows in story form what happens when a business consolidates onto one system.

A good first thing to show someone new to Odoo, or a colleague you need to bring along internally.

The story

• Mr. Horiba runs an audio equipment manufacturer. With 45 staff handling 4,500 orders a day, the business ran at 100 orders per person
• Mr. Saito, the finance director, is buried in invoices raised from the logistics system, timesheet imports, refunds, reports for the boss, syncing the online shop, and payment runs
• Over a few years, separate IT tools piled up one after another, leaving the work more complex and still disconnected
• By 2015 headcount had reached 90, yet orders stalled at 5,000 a day. That is 55 per person — a 45% fall in five years — and margins fell with it
• When the HR director asks for recruitment software, Mr. Horiba balks at adding yet another system
• Wanting to consolidate the sprawl, he encounters Odoo and starts small with the recruitment app alone
• As CRM, manufacturing, sales, BI, project, and accounting follow, orders per person climb back from 55 step by step while annual IT cost falls from its starting point of 7.5 million yen

Related links

• Getting Around Odoo — implementing efficiently with open source
• Quartile's business and culture