Futura Gaia Technologies, a leading pioneer in vertical farming, partnered with Doodex to implement Odoo agriculture solutions tailored for agri-tech. CEO Pascal Thomas, with years of international experience, needed a partner specialized in ERP agriculture Odoo to integrate robotics, farming recipes, and production management. The project aimed to create a scalable foundation using the Odoo agriculture module, while also preparing for Odoo for agriculture equipment manufacturing to support turnkey farm sales.
Situation Before Doodex – Why Odoo Agriculture Was Needed
Several years ago, Pascal Thomas, CEO of Futura Gaia, was looking for an experienced Odoo partner specialized in production management to implement an ERP system fully tailored to vertical farming in France.
Pascal had just returned from Canada, where he managed a team of over 500 developers—so he knew exactly what he was talking about. The challenge here was unique:
- Futura Gaia’s entire farming activity relies on robots and automated systems controlled by a supervisory program.
- The ERP had to deeply integrate with this system to orchestrate crops, monitoring, and robotic operations.
Futura Gaia’s business model was to sell turnkey vertical farms, fully equipped with an ERP solution already integrated and connected to a central “mother ERP.” This central ERP consolidates and shares strategic data such as cultivation recipes.
Audit and Project Launch with ERP Agriculture Odoo
Unlike other projects requiring heavy migrations, this ERP journey started from scratch — an advantage that allowed us to:
- Gain a deep understanding of agri-tech business processes.
- Build a flexible foundation with Odoo agriculture modules.
- Rely on Odoo’s proven framework without reinventing the wheel.
The main challenge: working with living organisms.
Crops must be monitored with extreme precision to comply with strict quality and food safety standards. Traceability therefore had to be flawless, detailed, and complete.
Block 1: Farm Structure & Odoo Workcenters
We leveraged Odoo’s workcenter concept to model the vertical farm within the Odoo agriculture module.
- Growing workshops (sowing, germination, transplanting, growth, harvesting).
- Climate-controlled rooms divided into blocks with cultivation units.
- Definition of climates applied within each chamber.
- Automatic synchronization with the robot supervisor.
Client benefits:
- Huge time savings thanks to automatic setup.
- A clear, standardized structure yet flexible enough to adapt to farms of any size.
- Drastically reduced human errors.
Block 2: Production Recipes & Bills of Materials
The Bill of Materials (BOM) module was adapted for cultivation recipes as part of the ERP agriculture Odoo solution.
- Simple, intuitive interface to describe cultivation steps.
- Easy duplication of recipes to quickly create new ones.
- Support for multi-harvest management to maximize facility usage.
Client benefits:
- Simplicity and efficiency in creating and updating recipes.
- Smooth user experience with guided processes, no technical knowledge required.
- Flexibility to test and innovate quickly.
Block 3: Crop Management & Manufacturing Orders
Using Odoo’s manufacturing order system, we built a complete workflow for cultivation processes:
- Two-way synchronization with the robot supervisor.
- Highly detailed traceability reports (plant by plant, batch by batch).
- Fertilizer management and soil reuse tracking.
Client benefits:
- Total, precise control over the entire crop cycle.
- Perfect sanitary traceability, meeting the strictest industry standards.
- Continuous optimization based on real-time production data.
Block 4: Marketing & Sales
We customized Odoo’s CRM and sales modules to fit Futura Gaia’s specific needs:
- Automatic generation of cultivation orders linked to sales.
- Accurate tracking of the customer lifecycle, from farm sales to harvest.
Client benefits:
- Perfect alignment between sales operations and production.
- Shorter delays from sales to operational launch.
- Centralized, global visibility of customers and their production.
Results Achieved with Odoo for Agriculture
- An ERP fully integrated at the core of the vertical farm.
- Significant time savings thanks to automation and robot synchronization.
- Pharmaceutical-grade traceability, ensuring flawless quality.
- A system that is both structured and flexible, capable of managing multiple harvests, new recipes, and fast adjustments.
- An outstanding user experience: Futura Gaia’s teams work with an ERP designed specifically for their business, simple and intuitive despite the technical complexity.
Conclusion – Odoo for Agriculture Equipment Manufacturing & Beyond
Launched on Odoo 13 and later migrated to Odoo 16, this project was both a technological and human challenge.
We discovered a new sector—agri-tech—and proved that Odoo, when implemented properly, can manage extremely complex processes while remaining simple and efficient for the end user.
At Doodex, we are proud to contribute to Futura Gaia’s success and to demonstrate that with the right Odoo agriculture module, even the most complex agri-tech processes can be simplified and scaled.
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