Know exactly what your labor costs on every order
Manufacturing Timesheets captures employee-attributed labor time on Manufacturing and Work Orders, turns it into real-time labor cost and efficiency, and routes it through approval before it reaches payroll.
The problem
Odoo Manufacturing tracks quantities and work order durations, but it does not produce employee-attributed timesheets that feed labor costing or payroll. Odoo Timesheets, meanwhile, is built for projects and tasks with no awareness of manufacturing orders or work centers. Production managers end up bridging the gap with spreadsheets and manual re-keying, so labor cost stays invisible until well after the order is done.
The solution
Operators log time directly on the manufacturing order or work order they are standing at. Every entry rolls up into a live labor cost and an efficiency figure against standard time, moves through a submit-approve-refuse workflow, and mirrors into native Timesheets so hours reconcile with HR and payroll without a second round of data entry.
Everything labor tracking on the shop floor needs
Every capability below is implemented in the module.
Work order & MO time capture
Log employee time at the manufacturing order or, more precisely, at the specific work order and work center where the operation actually happened.
Smart buttons on MO & WO
One click from any manufacturing order or work order form opens its own Labor page with entry counts, totals, and an inline timesheet list.
Centralized timesheet menu
A single list and kanban of every logged entry across all orders, with state-based decorations so managers can audit labor at a glance.
Multi-level approval workflow
Entries move through draft, submitted, approved, and refused states with a dedicated To Approve queue, so logged time is reviewed before it feeds costing.
Real-time labor cost roll-up
Every approved hour is priced against employee cost and rolled up onto the manufacturing order and work order as it is logged, not after the fact.
Labor efficiency vs. standard time
The Labor page compares logged hours against the routing's expected duration, surfacing efficiency and overrun by order and work order.
Batch logging across work steps
The Log Time on Steps wizard lets an operator record time across several work orders of a complex order in a single action instead of repeating entry per step.
Per-order tracking toggle
Enable labor tracking only on the orders where it matters, with a configurable default so trivial jobs are never forced through time entry.
Native Timesheets integration
Approved manufacturing hours mirror into Odoo's standard Timesheets records, so hours reconcile cleanly with existing HR and payroll reporting.
How it works
Enable tracking
Turn on labor tracking for a manufacturing order, or set the default in Settings so new orders track automatically.
Log time
Operators log time on the MO or work order directly, or batch-log across several steps with the Log Time on Steps wizard.
Submit & approve
Entries are submitted for review and a manager approves or refuses them from the centralized To Approve queue.
Cost & reconcile
Approved hours roll up into labor cost and efficiency on the order and mirror into native Timesheets for payroll reconciliation.
Frequently asked
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No. It adds manufacturing-aware time entry on top of MRP and mirrors approved hours into native Timesheets records, so your existing HR and payroll reporting keeps working unchanged.
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Manufacturing Timesheets | MRP Timesheets
Employee-attributed time capture on manufacturing and work orders, rolled up into live labor cost and efficiency against standard time, routed through approval, then mirrored into native Timesheets for payroll.
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