Quick Answer
Openbravo is a retail and restaurant commerce platform, it does not offer a jewelry manufacturing vertical, and its legacy MRP module only ever supported basic discrete manufacturing. Odoo has a mature Manufacturing (MRP) app plus purpose-built Jewellery Management modules that natively handle gold purity, live metal rates, making charges, and wastage.
What Jewelry Manufacturing Needs From an ERP
- A metal (gold, silver, platinum) at a purity level (18K, 22K, 24K) priced against a live daily market rate
- Making charges, labor cost, often per gram or per piece, varying by design
- Stone cost tracked separately from metal cost
- Wastage, a percentage of metal lost during production, costed and billed
- Full weight tracking: gross weight, stone weight, net metal weight
- Optional subcontracting to outside setters or polishers
Openbravo: No Native Jewelry or General Manufacturing Capability
Openbravo's actively developed Commerce Suite is purpose-built for retail and restaurant point-of-sale, order management, and clienteling. It does not ship a manufacturing module in its modern commercial offering.
The older, community-maintained Openbravo ERP (2.50 era) included a basic MRP module, but it only supported discrete manufacturing, Openbravo's own issue tracker confirms it explicitly lacks process/formula manufacturing, the kind needed for metal alloys and weight-based recipes. There is no purity-based pricing, live rate feeds, making-charge styles, wastage calculation, or jewelry vertical anywhere in the product.
Odoo: Native Manufacturing Plus a Jewelry-Specific Ecosystem
Odoo's Manufacturing (MRP) app is a full discrete-manufacturing engine: multi-level Bills of Materials, routings, work centers, and both estimated and actual costing. Dedicated Jewellery Management apps from Odoo-ecosystem partners add the trade-specific layer:
- Purity and live rate: Select gold type, enter or auto-update the daily rate per gram, price calculated as Rate/gram x Net Weight + Making Charge
- Making charges: Configure making styles per gram or as a percentage, applied automatically
- Wastage tracking: Automatic wastage weight = Product weight x Wastage % / 100, costed at the current carat rate
- Weight hierarchy: Gross, stone, and net weight tracked at template and variant level
- Advanced BOM: Multi-level BOMs accounting for stone weights, purity, and wastage
- Subcontracting visibility: Track raw metal and parts sent to outside setters or polishers
- Accounting integration: Material, labor, and overhead postings happen automatically on order completion
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Requirement | Openbravo | Odoo |
|---|---|---|
| General manufacturing (BOM, routings) | No (current suite); legacy ERP was discrete-only | Native, full-featured MRP app |
| Process/formula manufacturing | Explicitly unsupported | Supported via BOM + routing |
| Purity-based pricing | Not available | Native via jewelry modules |
| Live metal rate updates | Not available | Native |
| Making charges | Not available | Native, configurable |
| Wastage tracking | Not available | Native, automatic |
| Subcontracting | Not available | Supported |
Which Should a Jewelry Business Choose?
If you run a jewelry retail counter and only need POS and basic inventory, Openbravo can serve the retail side. The moment you need to manufacture, calculate purity-based cost, track wastage, or manage subcontracted polishing, Openbravo has nothing to offer without ground-up custom development. Odoo is purpose-fit for jewelry manufacturing today, with a proven module ecosystem RAWN Technologies can implement and tailor to your exact policies.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Openbravo have a jewelry manufacturing module?
No. Its current Commerce Suite has no manufacturing module, and its legacy MRP had no purity, wastage, or making-charge logic.
Can Odoo calculate gold wastage automatically?
Yes, wastage weight is calculated as a percentage of product weight and converted to cost using the current metal rate automatically.
Can Odoo handle multiple metal purities like 18K, 22K, and 24K?
Yes, purity selection is native and directly affects price calculation.
Is Odoo's jewelry capability built-in or an add-on?
Core Odoo provides the Manufacturing engine; the jewelry-specific logic comes from established third-party ecosystem modules, which RAWN can select and customize.
Running a jewelry manufacturing or retail operation? Contact RAWN Technologies for an Odoo jewelry-module implementation plan.