INVENTORY

Scrap Management

Every business indubitably generates scrap, which is waste with little to no economic value. Odoo has a well-facilitated platform for scrap management. Adding a product to scrap will remove it from the company’s stock. It is essential to remove damaged or expired products from the stock as soon as possible. You can later use the reusable parts of the scrap for recycling operations. You can store the scrap in a scrap location. In the storage location in Odoo, you can assign a location for scrap.

Let’s look at how to create a location for scrap to ensure effective scrap management using Odoo. Odoo helps you to manage scrap locations in your storage. We discussed the configuration of storage locations in the Odoo Inventory module earlier. You can follow the same method to configure a location for scrap also. Go to the Locations menu available under the Configuration menu.

You can click the New button to create a new location for scrap.

Mentioned the location name as Scrap Location in the specified field. You can follow the same steps just like we mentioned in the Location configuration section earlier. Now, activate the Is a Scarp Location field to consider this location as a scrap location. This will record the location as a scrap location. You can create more scrap locations like this by following the same method.

Now, let’s check how to manage scrap in Odoo and add products to the scrap location. Click on ‘Scrap’ under the Operations tab. You will get the Scrap Orders window, as shown below.

This window displays the scrap order’s Reference, Date, Product (name), Quantity, Unit of Measure, Company, and Status. Click on the Create button to add a new scrap order.

Select the product's name from the dropdown list of ‘Product.’ Define the fields like Quantity, Package, Source Document, and Company. After adding this info, click on ‘Validate.’

Odoo helps you create scrap orders from Inventory’s different operations like Internal Transfers, Manufacturing, Receipts, etc. The model of a validated Receipt is shown below.

Click the Scrap button to remove this product from the company stock to the scrap area.