Another great example where our business software is in action on the field, is the EXKI Business case. Present on the market for 15 years now, the Belgian based chain restaurant is expending abroad and they need a strong software to manage their business.
Bernard Dehertog, EXKI's IT Manager gave a conference (available at the end of the article) about their use of Odoo in their company, here's a summary.
Tell us about the company and its business
EXKI is a chain restaurant serving fresh and healthy food. We have 70 restaurants located mainly in Belgium, France and in Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Italy and recently in the US. Our motto is "Nature's kitchen" because we sell delicious recipes made out of tasty fresh products to eat-in or take-away. Our food combines wellness and pleasure and we always try to find products as much as natural and organic as possible.
What challenges did the company face before they implemented Odoo?
What solution was delivered?
The work began few years ago, in the V6 where a lot of developments had to be made in order to adapt the system to our needs. Recently we directly migrated from V6 to V8. We can use Odoo V8 directly in standard as the version has been increased consequently. New implementation has been tested from September 2014 and was done in production in December 2014.
We use:
Restaurants
Products
Purchase & Sales Pricelists
Procurement
WMS
The second project is HR. We used it in standard for the moment but we have some needs that require development later to avoid double encoding within the Odoo System and our external Payroll management company system.
How had this impacted the business?
We use Odoo mainly for the ordering system. We have 70 restaurants using Odoo with 140 users (including in the restaurants, offices and suppliers who can enter in our system to take the orders). We manage with Odoo around 1000 purchases per day which are automatically sent to our 20 suppliers. This is the core business of EXKI.
With the switch to V8, we've noticed a big change from our people using Odoo. They are more interested in tool and ask for more features. They trigger the development of EXKI processes. Few years ago they were reluctant for a change to a new tool and now they like it and see that there a lots of things they'll be able to do.
Watch now the presentation from Bernard Dehertog made during the Odoo Experience!
