Odoo for Manufacturing

Yes — multi-level BoMs, work centres, routings and work orders are standard manufacturing functionality. The real work is capturing how your shop floor actually sequences jobs, including the informal steps people have learned to do, rather than the version written in a procedure document.

By recording material consumption and work-centre time against each manufacturing order, so the costed BoM can be compared with what was really consumed. This only produces trustworthy numbers if the shop floor records scrap and rework honestly, which is a process question before it is a software one.

Odoo supports subcontracting, where components are issued to a vendor and a finished or semi-finished item comes back. It needs deciding upfront who owns the stock while it is out, because that affects both your inventory valuation and what you can promise customers.

For accurate data, yes — someone at the point of work has to confirm what was produced and consumed. A tablet at the work centre with a deliberately small set of actions works far better than asking the office to key in yesterday's paperwork.