TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1. Website and Customer Experience
- 1.1. Website & eCommerce: Guided Onboarding, New Templates, Google Merchant Sync
- 1.2 Live Chat and Discuss: Expertise Routing, Chat Insights, Status Controls
- 2. Sales, CRM and Subscriptions
- 2.1 Sales: Editable Optional Products, Catalogue Sections, Portal Top-Up
- 2.2. CRM and Marketing: AI Probability, Lead Sources, Kanban Linking
- 2.3. Subscriptions: Prorated Billing, One-Time Sales, Portal Edits
- 3. Inventory, Purchase and Barcode
- 3.1. Inventory and Purchase: Packages within Packages, Forecasted Reports, Suggested Quantity to Replenish
- 3.2. Barcode: Operation Descriptions, Product Source Location, Lot and Serial Number Properties
- 4. Manufacturing, Shop Floor & Planning
- 4.1. MRP: Gantt View, Editable Deadlines, Labour-Based Valuation
- 4.2. Shop Floor & Planning: Barcode Workflows, Shift Scheduling, Routing Edits
- 5. Project, Timesheets and Services
- 5.1. Project and Timesheet: Smart Assign, Mobile Grid View, Priority Alerts
- 5.2. Field Service and Appointments: Calendar View, Technician Tracking, Mass Planning
- 6. HR, Payroll and Expenses
- 6.1. Payroll: Redesigned Engine, Payslip Correction, Unified Master Report
- 6.2. Time Off and Expenses: Odoo Master Cards, Multi-Expense Submission, Complex Duration
- 7. Accounting, Compliance and ESG
- 7.1. Accounting: Peppol Invoicing, Bank Sync, BAS Reports
- 7.2. ESG App: Scope 1–3 Emissions, CSRD Reporting, Auto Category Mapping
- 8. AI, Documents and Sign
- 8.1. AI App: Prompt Commands, Auto Field Completion, Voice and Web Search
- 8.2. Sign and Documents: Bulk Signing, Chatter Integration, Access Controls
- Odoo 19: What’s Coming For Australia?
- 1. Fully compliant Payroll AU with STP Phase 2 and SuperStream
- 2. ABA file payments, Direct Debit for wages/super
- 3. Multi-stream YTD import, backpay, and validations
- 4. 2025–26 tax rules, STSL changes, ATO security
- 5. Peppol invoicing, GST toggle, fringe benefits, BAS automation
- 6. Tyro integration
- 7. Roadmap: SBR BAS lodging, Open Banking, PEL Access, Fiduciary Program
- Odoo 19’s FAQs For Australian Teams
- 1. How should Australian businesses prepare?
- 2. How is Odoo 19 different from Odoo 18 in Australia?
- 3. How can AI in Odoo 19 be tailored for real business outcomes?
- 4. How can I try Odoo 19 or upgrade from my current version?
Baraja: Auto-driving Into the Future With Odoo
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The Company
Founded in 2016, Baraja is a trailblazing start-up that invented Spectrum-Scan™ LiDAR, a new model of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology for self-driving cars. The pioneering company’s founders, Federico Collarte and Cibby Pulikkaseril leveraged simple laws of physics (refraction of light on a glass prism) and revolutionized the autonomous vehicles industry by solving long-existing problems of conventional LiDARs; costs, safety, and scalability. They ingeniously integrated components from the automotive and telecommunications supply chain and became one of the few LiDAR producers in the world that commit to stringent quality control, reliability, and capability for mass production.
Baraja is currently growing offices in Sydney, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley, and foresees to touch base across the world.
Exponential Growth with Odoo
Baraja adopted Odoo as the central engine of its system with two simple aims, to improve operational efficiency and to attain a clear and consistent 360-degree view of its business processes. Federico and Cibby invested all major resources in Odoo as they highly valued the software compatibility and flexibility with their unique business model. Baraja powered itself with a quick-start success pack and smoothly systemized its operations in two short months with solid implementation and tailor-made customizations (Purchase, Inventory, Manufacturing, PLM, Sales, Invoicing, Accounting, and Studio). With relentless determination, the company became a successful example of exponential growth by expanding from 9 to 96 employees in just two years!
Federico Collarte, Co-founder and CEO at Baraja
Building Successful Partnerships
The co-founders recognized that it takes successful partnerships to build a successful business and soon reached out to one of Australia’s top Odoo partners, Havi Technology. The company surpassed major milestones in R&D processes with Odoo’s manufacturing applications (Manufacturing, PLM, Quality, and Maintenance) and Havi Technology’s active support. The co-founders were thoroughly inspired by their partner and created an in-house Odoo team to test upgrades and customizations for future developments. But their dedication doesn’t stop there! They still continue to work closely with Odoo functional consultants in growing their knowledge in ERP functions and Odoo applications.
An All-inclusive Solution
Since Odoo is an open-source software, Baraja was able to make customizations and solve a wide scope of business-specific problems; inventory, purchasing, invoicing and especially manufacturing.
Purchasing management is the first and most crucial process in Baraja, as they have to frequently procure multiple types of components to produce and develop their LiDAR model. Thanks to the automation and integration of Odoo’s Purchase, Inventory and Invoicing apps, Baraja’s employees are able to spend minimal time in administrative tasks such as scanning, recording, and evaluating stocks, while the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology converts vendor bills and payments from paper to digital in just a matter of seconds!
As a technology manufacturing company, Baraja’s operations highly depend on technical and time efficiency. The company’s experience with Odoo has only been improving as processes are even faster and more fluid upon each new software update. After the migration from Odoo 12 to 13, Baraja was able to save a significant amount of time, 20 minutes per hour, in its manufacturing process as workarounds weren’t required anymore in the swapping of components. This saved the company 240AUD per week and a remarkable 80% reduction in time. In the meantime, Baraja looks forward to accelerating towards greater global expansion after the release of Odoo 14, 15, and more to come!
"Every minute matters in manufacturing, and so far we were able to save a significant amount of time and costs that we couldn’t have been possible without Odoo.”
Huabing Liu, Team lead of IT operations at Baraja.