Chapter 7 Kit Production

Serial-Based Kit Traceability

Native Odoo kit BoMs do not create real stock for the kit product itself. The kit is exploded into its components during delivery or consumption. This is efficient, but it creates a traceability challenge in some scenarios: the business may still want to track which component lots or serial numbers were used for a specific kit sold to the customer.

Based on this need, Qingdao Ohm's manufacturing solution adds kit traceability support. This chapter explains the usage flow.

Product Setup

Suppose the company sells an assembled computer. Its BoM contains two components: a keyboard and a monitor. Set the BoM type to Kit.

Set the assembled computer route to Manufacture.

In native Odoo, a kit does not normally become stock as a finished product. The components are what actually move through inventory.

Sales Order

Create a sales order for the assembled computer.

The sales order line includes a kit lot or serial field. Enter the serial number of the assembled computer and confirm the order.

This creates a traceable relationship between the sold kit identity and its later component lots.

Delivery

Open the delivery order. The assembled computer is split into its components for delivery.

Enter the lot or serial number for each component, then validate the delivery.

Component Traceability

After delivery, open the lot or serial record of the assembled computer. The related component lots are shown.

The component lot also shows the related finished product serial number.

With this enhancement, even though the kit product does not have real inventory in native Odoo, the business can still trace which components were used for each sold kit.

Implementation Advice

Kit traceability is useful when customers need after-sales support, warranty analysis, or component recall tracking for bundled or assembled products.

Before enabling this kind of enhancement, confirm:

• Whether the kit product needs its own visible serial number.
• Which components require lot or serial tracking.
• Whether the warehouse team can reliably enter component lots during delivery.
• Whether after-sales users need to search from kit to components or from component to kit.

This chapter explained serial-based kit traceability. The next part moves into Accounting, where invoices, payments, statements, journals, and financial reports connect with sales, purchase, inventory, and manufacturing.