Odoo 13 allows managing subcontracting by placing orders with external partners. This involves defining bill of materials (BOMs) with components supplied by subcontractors. Purchase orders can then be created to buy finished products from subcontractors, generating receipts. Components can also be delivered to subcontractors manually, through reordering rules, or automatically on purchase orders to replenish their stocks. Stock valuation is adjusted for components used in subcontracted production and finished products received.

2. How to Set up Subcontracting In
Odoo 13 Manufacturing
Odoo 13 Subcontracting functionality allows placing subcontracting
orders to manage services that are outsourced.
Odoo Subcontracting operations are used, they affect all steps of
operations, from the definition of the operations that are required in
production, costing, forecasting, planning, and scheduling, semi-
finished products, and finished goods.
Subsequently, certain resources need their own processes for
accounting and cost control. The service product must be a stocked
product, and it must be part of the BOM.
First of all, you can install the Manufacturing, Inventory and
purchase module in your database.

3. Now you can enable the Subcontracting option in the Manufacturing
module.
Go to Manufacturing module -> Configuration and tick the checkbox
of the Subcontracting option.

4. Now you can create the new Bill of Material in Manufacturing module.

5. Go to Manufacturing -> Master Data -> Bill of Material then click on
the Create button.
After clicking the create button, now you can create a new Bill of Material.
At that time you can list the components that will be used through the
subcontractor for manufacturing the subcontracted finished products.
Now you can fill all the required fields like name of the products, product
variant, quantity, reference, select the BoM type, name of the
subcontractor, company name, under components tab you can add a
component by click on the add a line button, quantity, apply on variants.

6. To Receive or buy a subcontracted product:
Under Odoo, one can each buy the subcontracted product from your
subcontractor or directly receive the subcontracted product.

7. Buying the subcontracted product from a
subcontractor
Now you can go to the Purchase Module -> Click on the Create button to
create a new purchase order.
You can enter all the following required fields like Vendor name, Vendor
Reference, Purchase Agreement, Order date, Source Document. Company
name, and filling all the required fields in the products tab.
After filling all the required fields now you can click on the Save button. At
that time, you can click on the Confirm Order button.
In Odoo, you can buy the subcontracted product from your subcontractor
or directly get the subcontracted product.

8. After click on the confirm order button now, your Purchase Order is
created successfully. your purchase order will produce the general
receipt of the finished product.

9. Now you can view the receipt by clicking on the receipt button.

10. Receipt of Component Product From Supplier
Now you can also set components as will be supplied with the
subcontracts on order so it produces a delivery order to deliver the
components to the subcontractors now click on the validate button.

11. In this type of method, you can be generated from the purchase order
and validated to make the finished product in my stock.
Now comes to the valuation of the component which is the subcontract in
place are however considered as you are on stock go to the purchase
received and stock valuation.
Now you can see that your inventory valuation is decreased by the 1 and
increased by the quantity of the finished product.

12. Stock moves get created:
3 ways to manage the resupply the subcontractor with the
components:
Manually: Wherever you can generate a delivery order determining
subcontractor as the partner, describing components to deliver.

13. With reordering rules: Now you can determine a reordering rule on the
Subcontracting location to assure that they are always full components
sent to your subcontractors. At the same time, the reordering rule is
produce, a delivery order is generated for the product is automatically
created.

14. On order: Now you can also deliver components to your subcontractors
every time you order a subcontracted product. Now you can tick the
checkbox of “Resupply Subcontractor on Order” under the Inventory tab of
the product.