Food distributors live on margins that native Odoo was never tuned to protect. A wholesaler moving chilled proteins, dairy, and dry goods needs lot-level traceability with capture of expiry and manufacture dates, FEFO (first-expiry-first-out) picking rather than plain FIFO, catchweight handling where a case is ordered by unit but invoiced by actual kilograms, and route-based delivery with drop sequencing. Out of the box, Odoo gives you stock.lot, stock.quant, removal strategies, and stock.picking, but it stops short: the standard FEFO strategy keys off an expiration_date you have to configure per product, there is no true dual unit-of-measure for catchweight, no per-customer price lists that reflect bracket pricing on perishables, and no recall workstream that walks lot genealogy upstream and downstream in one click. Teams end up bridging these gaps with spreadsheets, which is exactly where audit trails and food-safety compliance break down.

ECOSIRE builds a Food Distribution industry solution as a proper Odoo module: a versioned __manifest__.py declaring dependencies on stock, sale_management, purchase, and account, new and extended models.Model classes, ir.model.access.csv plus record rules for warehouse-versus-sales-versus-finance segregation, XML/OWL views, QWeb reports, and automated actions. On the modeling side we extend product.template and stock.lot with the perishable attributes your operation actually tracks, add compute fields with @api.depends for landed cost per kilogram and days-to-expiry, and layer a catchweight flow that reconciles ordered quantity against weighed quantity at pick confirmation so the invoice reflects reality. FEFO is enforced through a removal strategy so pickers are always directed to the nearest-expiry lot, and a lot-genealogy engine traverses stock.move.line links to produce a recall report showing every inbound source and every customer a suspect lot reached.

Because the solution is native to your database, it inherits Odoo's mechanisms rather than fighting them: automated actions and scheduled crons flag lots approaching their shelf-life threshold and can trigger markdown pricing or write-off proposals; QWeb generates delivery manifests, catchweight-adjusted invoices, and lot certificates of analysis; and everything is reachable over the XML-RPC/JSON-RPC API so your route-planning app, EDI trading-partner feeds, or scale integrations can read and write without scraping the UI. We build against Community or Enterprise depending on what you run — flagging where an Enterprise feature (such as advanced barcode or quality) is assumed — and target Odoo 17.0, 18.0, or 19.0 to match your version so there is no forced upgrade.

Delivery is build-to-order: nothing ships until we run a scoping call, confirm the data model and workflows against your operation, and agree the scope in writing. From that confirmed scope, typical delivery is 2 to 4 weeks; we build on a staging copy of your database, run UAT with your team, and cut over with a rollback plan. You receive the installable source, a git repository handover, technical and user documentation, a training session, and a post-go-live support window. Pricing starts from $349 (indicative, single-company base scope); multi-company or multi-warehouse structures, EDI and scale integrations, deeper localization for food-safety and tax compliance, and larger historical data-migration volumes increase the quoted scope. After the scoping call you receive a fixed quotation — never a surprise.