Vanair cuts custom door production time by 50% with Odoo Manufacturing

About Vanair and the challenges of custom door manufacturing

Vanair is a professional custom door manufacturer serving both residential and commercial markets. Every order has unique dimensions, materials, and designs, requiring flexible production processes while still meeting deadlines and quality standards.

Before implementing Odoo, Vanair faced many typical challenges of make-to-order manufacturing businesses:

• Scattered data: Order information was spread across Excel, emails, and notebooks, making tracking difficult
• Slow quoting: Sales staff manually calculated prices based on materials, labor, and production time
• Lack of connectivity: Sales, production, and warehouse didn't share real-time information
• Manual errors: Duplicate data entry led to mistakes in orders and inventory

Solution: Odoo Manufacturing connects the entire process

Vanair implemented Odoo Manufacturing along with Sales, Inventory, and Purchase modules to create a fully integrated production system.

1. Automated quoting with product configuration

Instead of manual calculations, Vanair uses Odoo Product Configurator to create quotes in minutes. Each door type is defined with options (dimensions, materials, colors, accessories), and the system automatically calculates pricing based on bill of materials (BOM) and labor costs.

Result: Quoting time reduced from 2 days to 30 minutes.

2. Make-to-order production with MRP

Each order is automatically converted into a manufacturing order (MO) with detailed BOMs. The system automatically:

• Creates work orders for each operation (cutting, welding, painting, assembly)
• Allocates raw materials from inventory
• Tracks production progress in real-time
• Records actual time spent at each work center

3. Real-time inventory management

Odoo's Inventory module provides a complete view of raw materials:

• Automatically deducts inventory when producing
• Alerts when materials are running low
• Tracks lot numbers and serial numbers for each product
• Integrates with Purchase module to auto-order when needed

4. Connecting sales and production

The sales team can check production progress for any order at any time, and customers receive automatic email updates when their order moves to a new stage.

Results: 50% production time, 100% data accuracy

After 6 months of Odoo implementation, Vanair achieved significant improvements:

Metric	Before Odoo	After Odoo	Improvement
Average production time	10 days	5 days	50% reduction
Quoting time	2 days	30 minutes	94% reduction
Order errors	15%	<1%	93% reduction
Time to find order information	30 minutes	2 minutes	93% reduction
Dead inventory	20% of inventory value	5% of inventory value	75% reduction

Lessons for manufacturing businesses

Vanair's case illustrates three important lessons:

1. Connectivity is key

When sales, production, and warehouse share one system, information flows continuously and manual errors disappear. No more "sales said one thing, production made another."

2. Automate repetitive tasks

Quoting, creating production orders, deducting inventory - all are repetitive processes that can be automated. Employees focus on creative work instead of data entry.

3. Real-time data leads to better decisions

When you know exactly the production progress, inventory, and actual costs, management makes faster and more accurate decisions.

Conclusion

Vanair isn't the largest manufacturing company, but their Odoo Manufacturing implementation shows the power of open-source ERP: flexible, affordable, and quick to deploy. With 50% reduced production time and nearly eliminated order errors, Vanair has proven that digital transformation isn't just for large enterprises.

If you're looking for an ERP solution for make-to-order manufacturing, Odoo Manufacturing is worth considering. Fujigo has experience implementing Odoo for many manufacturing businesses in Vietnam and Japan - contact us for a free consultation.

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Source: Vanair scales custom door manufacturing with Odoo — Odoo Blog, October 2026