Technology, AI & ERP — explained in plain English
Odoo 20 lets you filter the chatter to show conversations or tracked changes, and emails logged in the chatter now show who was in CC. Underneath, tracking messages are generated on the fly instead of stored — a quiet rebuild with real upgrade implications for custom code.
Every POS order ends with a payment and a receipt, and Odoo 20 refines both: multi-currency checkout, simplified receipts, multiple printers per POS, and automatic session journal entries. This walkthrough covers the payment steps, tips, bill splitting, receipt contents and delivery, and when to issue an invoice instead.
Odoo’s Quality app builds inspection into production and inventory flows through control points that generate checks and alerts that track failures to corrective and preventive action. Odoo 20 adds two targeted changes: quality admins can bypass checks on inventory transfers, and a failure location can be set the moment a check fails.
Odoo 20 replaces account groups with parent accounts as the way charts of accounts are structured, and makes account codes optional. Here is how the old code-prefix system worked, what the explicit parent-child hierarchy changes for reports and migrations, and how to design a clean chart under the new model.
A single score cannot tell you whether a RAG system failed at retrieval, grounding, or relevance. This article explains faithfulness, answer relevancy, context precision, and context recall in RAGAS and the RAG triad, and how to read them together to fix the stage that actually failed.
Odoo 20 replaces Font Awesome with Material Symbols across the whole interface, presents icons more cleanly on white backgrounds, and softens tag and status colours. Around that headline sits a sheaf of refinements — redesigned dialogs and labels, a simplified editor, and smarter search, navigation, and chatter touches.
Odoo 20’s restaurant mode runs service from a visual floor plan: table orders, manual and automatic courses, and a Send-and-Fire flow that feeds preparation displays and kitchen printers. This guide covers the full flow and separates Odoo 20’s additions — combo conversion, product snoozing, split-per-product tickets — from the long-standing machinery.
A BoM’s type decides whether a product is manufactured, bundled as a kit, or subcontracted, while by-products and Apply on Variants keep complex recipes maintainable. Odoo 20 adds BoM comparison, easier component replacement, and flexible consumption by default.
Odoo 20 lets you pay vendor bills directly from inside Odoo — individually or in batches, with a single signature — through the new PISP (payment initiation service provider) interface. This article walks through the flow, the controls that travel with it, and why availability depends on your bank and provider.
Every large language model starts the same way: predicting the next token, billions of times. This explainer covers teacher forcing, causal masking, cross-entropy loss and perplexity — the mechanics of the pre-training loop, in plain language.
A phased, end-to-end checklist for moving a live database to Odoo 20: audit your customisations, run a test upgrade, test like a user, fix and retrain, then cut over with a rollback ready. Includes the bank consistency and access-rights changes that catch teams off guard.
Odoo 20 gives Email Marketing click-level tracking, conditional content, dynamic mailing lists, and a template library, while Marketing Automation gains a drag-and-drop workflow builder, event-based triggers, webhooks, and AI-assisted campaign creation. Here is what changed in both apps, drawn from the official release notes and the 20.0 documentation.
Odoo POS offline mode keeps order creation working from the browser cache during an internet outage and syncs orders when the connection returns. This guide is explicit about the limits — payment terminals, invoices, customer registration and real-time stock — and gives a preparation playbook using the cached-data parameters.
Work orders turn a bill of materials into executable steps at each work center, and the Shop Floor module is where operators run them. Odoo 20 adds a work order Kanban and Gantt, continuous production, and a single Produce button to that control loop.
Odoo 20’s bill line prediction pre-encodes the product, account, tax, analytic distribution and vehicle on vendor bill lines from your bill history and the line label, while preserving any values you entered manually. This article explains how the matching works, why the manual-value safeguard matters, and how to get consistently faster, cleaner bill entry from it.
Backpropagation is the engine that trains neural networks — and it’s just the chain rule applied carefully. This article walks a tiny network through a full forward and backward pass with real numbers, so you can see exactly how each weight moves and the loss falls.