Most manufacturing teams running Odoo can see a finished good's standard cost, but they cannot answer the harder question: what did this specific manufacturing order actually cost to produce? Odoo core values the MO from the BoM's component cost and, on Enterprise, adds work-center-based operation cost via mrp.workcenter.productivity, but it does not give you a single, auditable cost sheet that separates material, labor, and overhead per MO — nor does it let you layer plant overhead (electricity, depreciation, indirect labor, consumables) onto a run using a rate you control. Once real-world variance, scrap, over-consumption, and idle time enter the picture, the standard-cost picture and the shop-floor reality drift apart, and Finance ends up rebuilding costs in a spreadsheet.

This is what we build. Process Cost of Manufacturing Orders is a custom Odoo module that extends mrp.production with a computed cost breakdown that rolls up three streams onto each order: material (actual consumed quantities from stock.move valuation, not just BoM planned qty), labor (time posted to work orders via mrp.workorder/mrp.workcenter.productivity, priced at a configurable per-work-center or per-employee rate), and overhead (absorbed via a rate model you define — percentage of material, per labor hour, per machine hour, or a flat per-MO charge). The engine is a set of stored compute fields with tight @api.depends chains so figures recalculate when moves are done, work orders are closed, or overhead rates change, and a nightly ir.cron reconciliation catches late postings. We add a dedicated cost-sheet model and a QWeb PDF/HTML report that shows planned vs. actual by cost element with variance columns, plus optional posting of the overhead absorption to a configurable analytic account and journal so your account.move valuation reflects the loaded cost — not just raw material.

Technically it ships as a proper Odoo addon: a clean __manifest__.py declaring dependencies on mrp (and account/stock_account where financial posting is in scope), ORM models with indexed cost fields, ir.model.access.csv plus record rules so cost sheets respect multi-company and manufacturing-manager vs. operator visibility, XML/OWL views embedded on the MO form and a standalone cost-analysis list/pivot, and everything exposed through Odoo's XML-RPC/JSON-RPC API so your BI tools or a Power BI connector can pull MO-level actuals. It targets Odoo 17.0, 18.0, and 19.0, and we handle the Community vs. Enterprise difference explicitly — on Community we implement the work-order time capture the costing needs; on Enterprise we build on the existing MRP work-center analytics.

Because this is made to order, nothing is downloaded from an app store on day one. After a short scoping call we confirm exactly how your overhead rates, labor pricing, and financial posting should behave, then build against a copy of your database, hand you the source, install and configure it on staging for UAT, and go live. Typical delivery is 2–4 weeks from confirmed scope. Pricing starts from $349 (indicative, single-company base scope); multi-company overhead rules, per-employee labor rates, deeper analytic/journal posting, localization of the cost report, and migration of historical MO cost data increase the quoted scope. You receive a fixed quote after the scoping call — never a surprise.