Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

Creating a kit using a bill of materials

Up to now, our Bill of Materials has been used to manufacture products. This process consumes the products in the bill of material to produce an all-new product. There is, however an entirely different way to use a Bill of Materials to create product kits. For example, let's say we have a Fan Appreciation Bundle that includes a Hat, T-Shirt, and three Bumper Stickers. When the customer purchases the Fan Appreciation Bundle, we don't want to create a new product, but instead want to ship the individual products to the customer.

Here, we have created a Bill of Material that has a kit with our example:

Notice that under BoM Type, we have chosen Kit. We can also see that Odoo provides a detailed explanation ...