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Engineered product definitions from SolidWorks reach Odoo POS as sellable items with the right configuration and price, so counter staff quote made-to-order work without opening a CAD file.
Selling engineered product over a counter is where design and retail collide. SolidWorks holds the configurations, the bill of materials and the revisions; Odoo POS needs a sellable item with a price. Between them, staff read drawings and quote from a sheet that went out of date two revisions ago. Connecting SolidWorks and Odoo POS through Alumio gives the counter a current, priced list: released configurations and their component structure arrive as POS items, and what sells flows back toward planning. Quoting stops depending on who happens to be in the office.
DATA THAT FLOWS BETWEEN THEM
Product configurations
Bill of materials
Revision status
POS product items
Counter sales
Component stock
Released SolidWorks configurations reach Odoo POS as priced items, so staff quote from current engineering data instead of a printed sheet that lags the latest revision.
Superseded configurations are withdrawn from Odoo POS as new revisions are released, which stops the counter selling a variant engineering has already replaced.
Component structure from SolidWorks reaches Odoo, so a made-to-order price reflects the parts it consumes rather than a margin someone estimated at the counter.
Configuration and pricing detail is available in Odoo POS directly, which removes the queue of counter questions that engineers answer by opening drawings on request.
When a configuration is released in SolidWorks, Alumio creates the matching Odoo POS item with its options and price, so a customer at the counter can order an engineered variant the same day it becomes available to build.
A configuration marked superseded is deactivated in Odoo POS rather than left listed, so staff cannot sell an option that engineering has replaced and production would have to query or rework after the customer has already paid.
A made-to-order sale taken in Odoo POS is passed with its configuration detail toward production planning, so the build request carries the options the customer chose rather than a description typed into a note.
Alumio sits between sales channels and fulfillment systems as a governed integration backbone. Orders are routed, transformed, and validated, while status updates return to every channel.
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More can be connected, and for engineered product the next system is usually the ERP or MRP that plans the build, since Odoo POS captures the sale while materials and capacity are managed elsewhere. Alumio connects them together, so a counter order for a configured item reaches planning with its component structure rather than as a line someone interprets later from a description.
Yes. Alumio connects to SolidWorks data through its available interface, as it would any reachable system, and creates or updates the matching Odoo POS items when a configuration is released. Which configurations become sellable is a rule you set rather than everything in the design library, so the counter sees a curated list of buildable options instead of the full engineering catalog.
Most of it is configuration in Alumio, replacing the printed price sheets and engineering queries this pairing usually relies on. CAD and PLM data models are among the most bespoke in any business, though, so this is exactly the case where configuration handles the described mapping and Alumio's Code Transformer lets you drop in custom logic where a configuration rule or option dependency cannot be expressed any other way.
Yes, and it is what makes the pairing worth doing. Alumio carries the SolidWorks configuration reference onto the Odoo POS item, so the sale records which released variant was ordered rather than a free-text description. That reference is what lets production build the right thing, and it gives service a record of what a customer actually owns when they return months later with a question about a part.
Counter staff keep the last valid item list instead of losing products mid-shift. Alumio monitors the flow in real time, logs every message with the configuration data it carried, and alerts the team the moment Odoo POS rejects one, showing which configuration failed and the reason returned. Automatic retries cover transient faults, and unresolved messages remain visible rather than vanishing.
Talk to an Alumio integration specialist. We'll map the right architecture for your systems, at the right scale, so your operations stay reliable through every change.
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