Product lifecycle management
Product lifecycle management (PLM) in Odoo 14 deals with engineering change orders
(ECO). Engineering Change Orders (ECO), as the name indicates, are the procedures
carried out to apply changes in the product components, documents or assemblies.
Here, the changes can be made with respect to processes, work instructions or changes
specified.
In case the existing BoM for a product is not available in the market the user can
update the BOM with the help of Engineering Change Order. For this, you have to
use PLM.
Configuration
For this you have to install PLM module.
PLM gives different option as in the given below image:
Overview: The user can see all engineering change order types and
number of changes in progress in each ECO.
Changes: Here, the user will be able to view the engineering change
orders in different formats including kanban, list, calendar, pivot and graph. Here,
they can be found grouped on the basis of product, state, and stage or a custom
group.
Master Data: You can find Products, Bill of materials of products,
Routings, and Work centers under this section.
Reporting: Analyze all ECOs by reporting.
Configuration
A user can create ECO stage by going to PLM> Configuration> ECO Stages. The user
can also edit and create ECO types and ECO tags.
