Notes from the field.
Field notes from real Odoo implementations — what works, what
doesn't, and what most projects get wrong
ON IMPLEMENTATION
Why most Odoo implementations stall at month three.
Six months in, the project is "90% done." Twelve months in, it's still 90% done. The diagnosis is rarely technical — it's the unmapped processes nobody documented, the integrations everyone deferred, and the key person who quit halfway through
ON OPERATIONS
OTIF isn't a metric. It's a discipline.
Most operations measure OTIF the wrong way — averaged across SKUs, smoothed across the month, calculated to flatter the dashboard. Real OTIF is uncomfortable, granular, and changes how the warehouse runs on Monday morning
ON SYSTEMS
What the spreadsheet was hiding.
The spreadsheet wasn't the problem — it was the symptom. The real problem was the four undocumented rules its creator carried in their head. Replace the spreadsheet without those rules and you've automated the wrong process faster