OInvCons: Odoo-based Inventory Management for Construction Projects: A Design Initialization

Nguyen, Quoc-Huy (2024): OInvCons: Odoo-based Inventory Management for Construction Projects: A Design Initialization.

Abstract

The construction industry has considerable difficulties in managing a large number of materials an equipments to afford the growing reliance on subcontractors. This new are of outsourcing paradigm brought hierarchical management complications and inter-site control problem to aggregate all the subcontractor resource. This work proposes a system design and an initialized implementation of a subsystem integrated to Odoo ERP framework to manage inventory and provide the support of customization report. Our proposed system provide three arrows in a pillar to tackle the warehouse operation, the hybrid access control and the different customization degree in both unified and consolidated analytic strategies. To ensure and benchmark the work, we also conducted a set of ten or more demonstration scripts as a basis for evaluating the performance of the developed system. The demonstration of Python-based module confirms the feasibility of our design and implementation, which can be accessed on the app market.This module will be available on the Odoo app store for easy access and integration.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Inventory Management; Construction; Odoo
• Subjects: L - Industrial Organization > L7 - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction > L74 - Construction; Y - Miscellaneous Categories > Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified) > Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)

References

Hans Voordijk, Arjen Van Leuven, and Albertus Laan. "Enterprise resource planning in a large construction firm: implementation analysis." Construction management and economics, 21(5):511–521, 2003.

Godwin Banafo Akrong, Yunfei Shao, and Ebenezer Owusu. "Evaluation of organizational climate factors on tax administration enterprise resource planning (ERP) system." Heliyon, 8(6), 2022.

Madjid Tavana, Vahid Hajipour, and Shahrzad Oveisi. "IoT-based enterprise resource planning: Challenges, open issues, applications, architecture, and future research directions." Internet of Things, 11:100262, 2020.

Anil Sawhney, Mike Riley, Javier Irizarry, and M Riley. "Construction 4.0." Sawhney, A., Riley, M., Irizarry, J., Eds, 2020. IFS. "IFS Cloud Overview," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28.

Acumatica. "Acumatica Cloud ERP," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28.

Oracle. "Oracle Applications," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28.

SAP. "SAP ERP," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28.

Procore. "Procore Construction Management Software," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28.

CMiC. "CMiC Products," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28.

Jonas Construction. "Jonas Construction Software Features," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28. Sage. "Sage 300 Features," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28.

Epicor. "Epicor ERP Solutions," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28.

Odoo. "Odoo Business Applications," 2024. Accessed: 2024-12-28.

Lilly Rosander. "Same same but different: Dynamics of a pre-procurement routine and its influence on relational contracting models." Construction management and economics, 40(11-12):955–972, 2022.

Mehrdad Arashpour and Ron Wakefield. "Using BIM for multi-trade pre-fabrication in construction." In Construction 4.0, pages 209–221. Routledge, 2020.

Phuong-Duy Nguyen, Vu Nguyen Ha, and Long Bao Le. "Computation offloading and resource allocation for backhaul limited cooperative MEC systems." In 2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall), pages 1–6. IEEE, 2019.

Qingfeng Meng, Yifan Zhang, Zhen Li, Weixiang Shi, Jun Wang, Yanhui Sun, Li Xu, and Xiangyu Wang. "A review of integrated applications of BIM and related technologies in whole building life cycle." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(8):1647–1677, 2020.

B. Vogel-Heuser and D. Hess. "Guest editorial industry 4.0–prerequisites and visions." IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 13(2):411–413, 2016.

Duy Nguyen and Nam Thoai. "EBC: Application-level migration on multi-site cloud." In 2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI2012), pages 876–880. IEEE, 2012.

Lukasz Kanski and Jakub Pizon. "The impact of selected components of Industry 4.0 on project management." Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 8(1):100336, 2023.

Muhammad Azam Hafeez, Alberto Procacci, Axel Coussement, and Alessandro Parente. "Challenges and opportunities for the application of digital twins in hard-to-abate industries: A review." Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 209:107796, 2024.

Ayman R Mohammed, Ebrahim Abdelkhalek, Haitham Saleh, Ahmed M Attia, and Ahmad Al Hanbali. "Towards construction 4.0: A conceptual UML model for enhancing procurement and inventory management in conventional construction projects." IEEE Access, 2024.

Luis Pineda-Morales, Alexandru Costan, and Gabriel Antoniu. "Towards multi-site metadata management for geographically distributed cloud workflows." In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, pages 294–303. IEEE, 2015.

Phuong-Duy Nguyen and Long Bao Le. "Joint computation offloading, SFC placement, and resource allocation for multi-site MEC systems." In 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pages 1–6. IEEE, 2020.

Usama Ahmed, Ioan Petri, Omer Rana, Imran Raza, and Syed Asad Hussain. "Federating cloud systems for collaborative construction and engineering." IEEE Access, 8:79908–79919, 2020.

M. Hermann, T. Pentek, and B. Otto. "Design principles for Industrie 4.0 scenarios." In 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), pages 3928–3937, 2016.

G. Anderson, C.D. Nilson, T. Rhodes, S. Kakade, A. Jenzer, B. King, J. Davis, P. Doshi, V. Mehta, and H. Hillary. "SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP." Sams Publishing, New York, 2009.

E.P. Sekatzek and H. Krcmar. "Measurement of the standard proximity of adapted standard business software." Business Information Systems Engineering, 1(3):234–244, 2012.

L. Brehm, A. Heinzl, and M.L. Markus. "Tailoring ERP systems: A spectrum of choices and their implications." In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 2001.

B. Light. "Going beyond ‘misfit’ as a reason for ERP package customization." Computers in Industry, 56:606–619, 2005.

Y. Dittrich, S. Vancouleur, and S. Giff. "ERP customization as software engineering: knowledge sharing and cooperation." IEEE Software, 26(6):41–47, 2009.

U. Aslam, C. Coombs, and N. Doherty. "Benefits realization from ERP systems: The role of customization." In ECIS 2012, pages 142.1–142.7, 2012.

W. Luo and D.M. Strong. "A framework for evaluating ERP implementation choices." IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 51(3):322–332, 2004.

Sudhaman Parthasarathy and Maya Daneva. "An approach to estimation of degree of customization for ERP projects using prioritized requirements." Journal of Systems and Software, 117:471–487, 2016.

Sudhaman Parthasarathy. "Quantitative assessment of enterprise resource planning software customization." International Journal of Information Systems Change Management, 3(3):265–283, 2008.