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ODOO FOR ALUMINIUM MANUFACTURERS

One ERP for every furnace, press and shipment — built for aluminium manufacturing

From billet to finished profile: run casting, extrusion, anodising and fabrication on a single Odoo system — production planning, raw material & alloy inventory, quality control, maintenance and costing, all connected in real time.

18%
Avg. scrap reduction
30%
Faster order-to-dispatch
100%
Heat/batch traceability
Live Shop Floor Snapshot
Furnace 3 — Melt Batch #A1042
Alloy 6063 · Pour in 12 min
On Track
Extrusion Press 2
Die #227 · Profile run 480/650 kg
Running
QC — Anodising Line
Coating thickness check · Lot #L-3391
Passed
Raw Material — Aluminium Ingot
Reorder point reached · PO drafted
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THE PROBLEM

Spreadsheets and disconnected software don't run a furnace

Aluminium manufacturing runs on tight melt schedules, alloy specs and razor-thin yield margins. Generic accounting software and manual logs can't keep up.

Yield & scrap blind spots

No real-time view of metal loss across melting, casting and extrusion.

No heat/batch traceability

Can't trace a finished coil or profile back to its alloy batch and furnace run.

Reactive maintenance

Press and furnace downtime discovered after production stops, not before.

Costing lags reality

LME price swings and energy costs never make it into job costing on time.

THE PLATFORM

One Odoo build, every aluminium process covered

We configure and implement Odoo end-to-end for your plant — no bolt-on point solutions, no data silos.

MRP

Production Planning & Scheduling

  • Furnace, press & line capacity planning
  • Multi-level BOMs for alloys and profiles
  • Work order sequencing by die & alloy changeover
INVENTORY

Raw Material & Alloy Inventory

  • Ingot, billet & scrap stock by alloy grade
  • Automated reorder on LME-linked thresholds
  • Warehouse zones for melt shop, extrusion, finishing
QUALITY

Quality Control

  • Chemical composition & spectrometer checks
  • Dimensional & anodising coating inspections
  • Non-conformance workflows & supplier holds
MES

Shop Floor & MES

  • Real-time press, furnace & line status boards
  • Operator tablets for work order execution
  • Downtime, OEE and scrap capture at the source
MAINTENANCE

Preventive Maintenance

  • Die, press & furnace maintenance calendars
  • Auto work orders on runtime/cycle triggers
  • Spare parts stock tied to maintenance plans
COSTING

Costing & Margins

  • Live landed cost with LME + energy inputs
  • Per-job, per-die and per-alloy margin visibility
  • Scrap & rework cost roll-up into COGS
BUILT FOR YOUR PROCESS

From melt to dispatch — every stage, one traceable batch record

01

Melting & Casting

Alloy recipe, furnace charge and billet/ingot output logged against a unique heat number.

02

Extrusion / Rolling

Die selection, press parameters and profile yield tracked per work order, linked back to the heat.

03

Surface Treatment

Anodising / powder-coating batches recorded with bath chemistry and coating QC results.

04

Finishing & Dispatch

Cutting, packing and shipment generate a full batch/lot traceability certificate automatically.

"We went from reconciling furnace logs in Excel to seeing real-time yield and scrap by alloy grade. Costing that used to take three days at month-end is now live on the dashboard."

Plant Operations Head
Aluminium Extrusion Manufacturer, Gujarat
FAQ

Questions plant & ops teams ask us

Don't see your question? Our implementation team replies within one business day.

Talk to an Implementation Expert

Yes — we configure Odoo's Manufacturing and Quality apps with aluminium-specific work centers, alloy-based BOMs, die/tooling tracking and changeover rules so scheduling reflects how your melt shop and press floor actually run.

Every melt is tagged with a heat number that flows through extrusion, treatment and finishing. You can trace any dispatched lot back to its source alloy batch and furnace run in a few clicks — essential for customer certificates and recalls.

Yes, we integrate landed metal cost (LME + premium + conversion) into standard/actual costing so margins reflect current input prices, not last quarter's average.

A typical single-plant rollout covering production, inventory, quality and maintenance runs 6–10 weeks, depending on integrations (weighbridge, spectrometer, SCADA/PLC data) and data migration scope.

Yes — multi-company setups with shared vendor/alloy masters and consolidated reporting across plants are a standard part of our rollout playbook.

Ready to see your plant running on one system?

Book a free process audit — we'll map your current melt-to-dispatch flow and show exactly where Odoo removes the manual work.