Odoo perfectly meets the needs of multinational companies. Odoo is an outstanding solution to help small companies grow their business. The multi-company environment allows you to manage operations from different companies with different warehouses, customers, and suppliers, products.
To get multi-company options First, go to Settings -> General Settings, in that check on the Manage multiple companies options.
Now next step gives one user(admin) Multicompany rights.
By going to Settings–>Users
In that go to admin and check on the Multi Companies
Now I am going to show a multi-company setup with an example.
My company name is Seafoods and branches are
1. Cochin
2. Mangalore
3. Mumbai
4. Chennai
First, I am going to create a parent company called Sea Foods, then the branches with the parent as Sea Foods.
Setting users for each company
Admin user is a Multicompany user and we use this only for maintaining a regular check and giving access permission to the users, this account will not use for data entry.
Create users and give access rights to them to the particular company.
Setting Accounts
Install a chart of accounts for each company.
Select the companies and give a proper chart of accounts
Setting >> Configuration >> Accounting
Maintain a separate warehouse for each company. Log in as a company user and create a warehouse.
By default, a location(../stock) is created and you can create more locations as you wish.