Change a product's bill of materials or routing with staged approvals, version history and effective dates, so the floor builds the right revision and the audit trail is already written.
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the discipline of controlling how a product's design, bill of materials and process change over time, and in Saudi factories the change usually happens first on the floor, then purchasing finds out, and then a client audit discovers the wrong revision was shipped. Odoo PLM wraps engineering change orders around your bills of materials and routings so changes are proposed, compared, approved and released on a date with the full history kept on the product, which is how Naqlah, Odoo Gold Partner in Saudi Arabia, brings revision control to manufacturers supplying Aramco, EPC contractors and regulated consumer markets.
Change orders, bills of materials and work instructions run in Arabic and English, so a Riyadh head office approver and a Jubail plant engineer sign off on the same revision in their own language, and operators receive the released version on the shop floor tablet. Version history with attached documents is the evidence SASO and SABER re-certification, SFDA registration updates and client engineering audits ask for, and each BOM version records the local and imported share of components that feeds local content reporting for government buyers. Approved versions flow straight into Odoo Manufacturing so costs and stock stay accurate in SAR, and component changes trigger updates in Odoo Purchase before the next order is placed.
Audit evidence, not reconstruction
When a client, SASO or SFDA asks what changed and when, the revision history, attachments and approvals are on the product. The answer takes minutes rather than a week of searching email and shared folders.
Bilingual approvals across sites
Approval stages route to the right people in Riyadh, Jubail or Yanbu, each reading the change in Arabic or English. Nothing is released until every required signature is on the record.
Cost before release
A substituted imported component or a thicker gauge of steel is costed through the bill of materials before approval, so pricing and local content share are known before production switches.
1. Change order created
An engineer, a quality alert, a customer request or a supplier substitution opens the change order against the product, with the reason and supporting documents attached.
2. New version drafted and compared
The proposed bill of materials or routing is edited as a draft version and compared line by line with the current one, including the cost difference.
3. Approvers sign off by stage
Engineering, quality, purchasing and management approve in sequence, with notifications and deadlines, through the approver roles Naqlah maps from your HR system.
4. Version applied on the effective date
On the chosen date the new version becomes active, open manufacturing orders use it, documents update and the previous version is archived with its history.
Timelines depend on the number of product families and approval layers, and Naqlah gives you a clear roadmap in the first consultation.
| Area | Before | With Odoo via Naqlah |
|---|---|---|
| Change requests | Email and WhatsApp messages to the engineer | Change order record with reason and attachments |
| BOM history | Overwritten in place, previous version lost | Every version kept and comparable |
| Approvals | Verbal or a forwarded email | Staged sign-off by named approvers |
| Rollout | Immediate and inconsistent across lines | Effective date with old stock consumed first |
| Documents | Drawings in shared folders, revision unclear | Attached to the version they belong to |
| Audit | Reconstructed from memory and inboxes | Full trail of who changed what and when |
Everything else, we cover in a free 30-minute consultation.
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