Odoo Planning gives US service firms and manufacturers with shift work one calendar for people, equipment and projects. See who is free, fill open shifts in seconds and put an end to double-booked crews and idle machines.
Odoo Planning is a drag-and-drop scheduling board for your staff and equipment. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, whiteboards and group chats, your dispatchers and managers see every shift, machine and appointment in one view — and they can see it by employee, by crew, by project or by day.
Plan a week of shifts once and copy it forward, publish it to your team, and let Odoo send every employee their schedule on mobile. If someone calls in sick, open shifts are flagged in red and you can reassign them in a couple of clicks — Odoo ERP then updates hours, payroll and project costs automatically.
See who is free, instantly. Availability, time off and already-assigned shifts are visible right on the board, so managers never schedule an employee twice in the same slot.
Fill open shifts fast. Publish open shifts to qualified employees and let them claim the hours that suit them — ideal for manufacturers running second and third shifts and for service firms covering emergency call-outs.
Track hours automatically. Planned hours compare against actual attendance, so overtime and no-shows surface immediately instead of at the end of the pay period.
Keep fair, balanced rotas. Filters by role, skill and department help you spread weekend and night work evenly across your crew and stay consistent with your scheduling policies.
Book machines, vehicles and rooms: Treat any resource — a CNC machine, a service van, a training room — as something with a calendar, and reserve it alongside the people who operate it.
Spot conflicts before they happen: If two jobs try to claim the same machine or technician at the same time, Odoo Planning shows the overlap so you can re-sequence work before it hits the shop floor.
Plan around maintenance: Block equipment downtime for planned maintenance so schedulers can only book resources when they are actually available.
Charge time to the right place: Every planned hour can carry a project, a work order or a client, which keeps job costing accurate across Odoo Manufacturing and service operations alike.
Odoo Planning does not live in a silo. Assign a scheduled employee straight to a task in Odoo Project Management, or attach an intervention to a technician in Field Service — the plan, the task and the timesheet all stay linked.
That means when a field technician's day changes, the project plan and the invoiceable hours change with it. US service firms use this to keep billable utilization honest, and manufacturers use it to keep labor costs attached to the right work orders. When you are ready to roll this out, our Odoo Implementation team configures Planning around your shifts, crews and approval rules.
