A short but dense senior-level course for developers working with complex logistics: multi-step flows, advanced routing and non-standard warehouse operations. It goes past how standard transfers work and into designing custom WMS logic that scales with messy, real businesses.

What You’ll Gain

• Ability to build custom picking flows, routes, push/pull rules, multi-warehouse logic.
• Understanding how to extend Odoo WMS safely without breaking stock consistency.
• Mastery of stock.move, stock.move.line, quants, reservations, packaging, waves, batching.
• Skill to implement non-standard flows: QC, cross-docking, multi-step manufacturing supply, consolidation, wave picking, automated routing.

Course Modules

1. Deep Internals of Odoo WMS & Custom Flow Design

1 lesson

Understand how Odoo stock operations actually work under the hood, and how to bend them to match complex business demands.

• Internal architecture:

• stock.move lifecycle (draft → confirmed → reserved → assigned → done).

• stock.move.line and why operations depend on it.
• Quants & reservations: how Odoo locks quantities and avoids inconsistency.

• Multi-step routes & rule engine:

• Pull rules, push rules, chaining, propagation.

• Picking types, waves, packages, locations (view/internal/transit/vendor/customer).
• Multi-warehouse architecture: inter-warehouse replenishment, flows between companies.

• Designing custom flows:

• When to use rules vs custom code.

• Building multi-stage operations: QC → sorting → consolidation → final delivery.
• Handling multi-package, serials, lots, partial deliveries, merge/split logic.

• Anti-patterns that destroy stock integrity:

• Forcing quantities.

• Writing to quants.
• Bypassing reservation logic.
• Manual SQL updates.
• Homework: design a 4-stage flow (inbound → QC → sorting → putaway) for a provided business scenario.

2. Advanced Routing, Automation & Non-Standard Operations

1 lesson

Create highly customized warehouse processes: conditional routing, dynamic decisions, custom reservation strategies, batching & optimization.

• Dynamic routing:

• Conditional push/pull rules based on product attributes, stock levels, priority, packaging.

• Custom procurement groups, custom chain logic.

• Building automated decision systems:

• Smart allocation strategies (FIFO/LIFO/FEFO/custom).

• Dynamic putaway and picking logic via Python.
• Rule-driven vs algorithm-driven routing.

• Extending WMS operations safely:

• Overriding reservations, assignment, move confirmation, picking workflow.

• Custom pick/pack/ship steps with additional internal transitions.
• Advanced packaging flows, pallets, multi-package units, UoM conversions.

• High-volume warehouse patterns:

• Wave picking, batch picking, zoning, consolidation points.

• Performance considerations for stock-heavy systems (moves, quants, reservations).
• Final mini-project: build a complete custom routing strategy for a chaotic real-world scenario (e-commerce + wholesale + returns + QC), with explanation of overrides and data model changes.