Manufacturing (MRP) — Plan Overview

Blu Coffee plans to add Odoo's native Manufacturing (MRP) capability to bc17 to support the roastery repackaging workflow: taking an existing finished good (a sellable coffee blend) and converting it into a new finished good (a different SKU at a different weight) via grinding and repackaging.

Driving example

	Source	Result
Product	Blu Espresso Blend	Sugbo Blend
Weight	500 g	70 g
SRP	₱675	₱105

The source product is itself a finished, sellable SKU. The repackaging adds value through grinding to a target particle size, weighing into 70 g portions, and packing into Sugbo-branded pouches.

Process Flow (from VGC field notes)

START
  ↓
Existing Coffee Blend
  ↓
Item requested & approved → Roastery Raw Materials Inventory
  ↓
Existing blend opened, ground to desired size, measured to desired weight
  ↓                    [inputs: Labor, Electricity, Use of Space and Equipment]
Weighed coffee grounds repackaged to coffee pouches
  ↓                    [inputs: Coffee Pouches, Labor]
Repackaged ground beans transferred to Main Warehouse
  ↓
NEW SKU for Coffee Blend
  ↓
END

See Process Flow for the full mapping to Odoo concepts.

Why use MRP instead of an internal transfer + manual SKU swap?

Concern	Manual swap	MRP
Component traceability	Implicit	Captured per Manufacturing Order (MO)
Cost rollup (labor, electricity)	Not captured	Work-center cost × time per operation
Yield/loss reporting	Manual	Automatic (kg in vs kg out)
Approval workflow	Email / paper	Built into MO state machine
Brand attribution	Manual	Carried on MO header
Variance analysis	None	Standard vs actual cost on MO close

The MRP route also gives the team a single screen (Manufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders) to plan, schedule, and review every repackaging run.

Implementation Phases

1. Foundation — install mrp module, set up Roastery stock locations, define work centers
2. Products & BOMs — set up coffee pouches as raw material, configure new SKUs and their BOMs
3. Custom blu_mrp sub-package — approval workflow, brand tracking, raw-material requisition wizard
4. Reporting — manufacturing cost analysis, yield/loss, WIP aging (extends blu_reports)
5. Costing & accounting — analytic accounts for labor / electricity / overhead, production variance account

Each phase is independently shippable. Total estimated effort is ~3 weeks of dev + 1 week UAT.

Module Dependencies (planned change)

Add mrp to bc17/__manifest__.py:

'depends': [
    'base',
    'l10n_ph',
    'base_accounting_kit',
    'tax_report_omax',
    'crm',
    'sale_management',
    'purchase',
    'stock',
    'repair',
    'mrp',          # ← new
    'muk_web_theme',
    'account_parent',
    'sms',
],

Next Steps

• Read Process Flow — how each step in the field notes maps to Odoo concepts
• Read BOM and Routing — concrete BOM for Sugbo Blend 70g
• Read Costing — how labor, electricity, and equipment costs roll into the new SKU
• Read Open Questions — items that need VGC team confirmation before development