Odoo ERP for Jewellery Manufacturing in India: A Practical Playbook from Workshop to Showroom

Jewellery makers in India sell precision, speed, and trust. One ring can be touched by designers, wax modelers, casters, stone setters, polishers, quality inspectors, packers, and retailers—all across different locations. Margins rely on the accuracy down to the gram and the gold price shifting almost daily.

Compliance is not optional: GST e-invoicing and e-way bills are new rules of the game, as well as BIS hallmarking with HUID.In this environment, Odoo offers one integrated system to plan production, track metals and stones, meet tax rules, and sell across retail and online—without running ten different tools.

Why Jewellry manufacturing needs unified control

The jewellery trade manages precious metals, stones, labor-intensive processes, subcontractors, and an onerous requirement for traceability–unlike most industries.Losses are measured in milligrams; a missing stone can wipe out a day’s gain.

Odoo’s Manufacturing (MRP) with PLM, Quality, Maintenance, and Shop Floor apps gives you a real-time control panel—think tablets at work centers to start/stop operations, log time, flag issues, and trigger maintenance requests without leaving the bench.

The Indian market context, in brief

India remains a global force in gems and jewellery, with exports in FY25 around US$28.5 billion, and the sector frequently contributes a meaningful share to world trade.

That said, the last two years brought external shocks—tariffs in key markets and slower demand cycles—that make cost control, accurate inventory, and quick reporting more valuable than ever. An integrated ERP is not a luxury; it’s survival tech.

Metals, stones, and variants—handled the right way

Multi-level BOMs and variants. Jewellery rarely comes in a single recipe. You may offer the same design in 14k, 18k, and 22k; in white, yellow, or rose; with different stone sizes and grades.

Odoo’s Bills of Materials let you model those variants without duplicating work. You can define components by purity, create alternative BOM lines (e.g., different findings), and capture process steps—casting, filing, setting, polishing—so you know material and labor at each stage.

Scrap and recovery – Filing dust, sprues, and polishing waste are not “losses”; they’re recoverable assets. Use work orders to capture expected yield and by-products, book scrap returns to inventory, and reconcile melt recovery against standards. This keeps your true metal cost honest.

Stone lots and serials – Diamonds and colored stones need batch/lot tracking to retain origin, size, clarity, and supplier references. For stringent traceability, which is essential for refunds, warranties, and audits, Odoo offers lot/serial tracking.

Shop-floor clarity with fewer hand-offs

Work centers on tablets – Artisans can start operations, log actual time, and raise quality alerts on the spot. Supervisors see bottlenecks, pending jobs, and resource loads without chasing paper travellers. Maintenance can be triggered from the same screen—less idle time, more on-time deliveries.

Subcontracting and job work – Many Indian manufacturers send wax, casting, or setting to external karigars. Odoo supports subcontracting flows—issue components, receive finished pieces, and auto-value the service cost in the product. This makes COGS accurate even when multiple vendors touch the same piece.

Barcode support – Barcodes speed moves between departments—received gold bars, casted trees, stone packets, finished lots. With the Barcode & Inventory apps, every movement leaves a digital trail.

Costing that matches jewellery reality

Gold rate changes – Daily rate updates can be managed in pricelists and BOM cost rolls. For made-to-order items, you can calculate metal cost by net weight plus fixed wastage, then add stone value and labor to quote within minutes.

Valuation methods – Odoo supports different valuation approaches (e.g., FIFO, standard). Many jewellers prefer methods that reflect live metal pricing; Odoo’s integrated accounting ensures every operation—receipt, issue, or completion—hits the right ledger with a clear audit trail.

Quality, traceability, and BIS hallmarking with HUID

Trust is the currency of Indian jewellery. The government’s hallmarking program now assigns a unique HUID to gold jewellery items. After the March 2023 amendments, re-hallmarking rules and broader rollout increased traceability; and from November 5, 2024, a new phase added more districts.

From July 2025, 9-karat items are included as well. While Odoo doesn’t “hallmark” items, it gives you the tracking foundation—link lot/serial numbers, attach documents (test certificates, hallmark receipts), and keep customer invoices aligned with product IDs.

GST compliance: e-invoicing and e-way bills

If your turnover crosses the government threshold (currently widely applied at ₹5 crore for e-invoicing), invoices must be reported to the IRP and carry an IRN/QR. Odoo’s India localization supports e-invoicing from v15 onward and integrates with e-way bill generation—reducing repetitive data entry and errors. Set up once, and your Accounts/Dispatch teams can push compliant documents directly from the ERP.

Sales: wholesale, retail POS, and online in one stack

POS for jewellery counters – Counters typically require barcode scans for stone packages and completed goods, as well as weight-based pricing, split tenders, and quick billing. A sale at Zaveri Bazaar instantly appears in stock thanks to Odoo POS’s connection to your factory’s inventory, which helps to avoid overselling.

Multi- channel out of the box – Use Odoo eCommerce for made-to-order catalogs, appointment bookings for design consultations, and repair order tracking. CRM captures walk-in leads (bridal, corporate gifting) and marketing automation helps with post-purchase care (free cleaning reminders, buy-back schemes). All of this rides on the same database.

Reporting that decision-makers actually use

Live dashboards – Production efficiency by work center, average turnaround by SKU, metal recovery vs. The dials that count are standard, stone variance, and on-time delivery.  Because Odoo’s modules share one database, you can build real-time boards without CSV gymnastics.

Export exposure – With a large share of India’s jewellery exports heading to the U.S., tariff changes and market demand can shift quickly. Odoo doesn’t solve trade policy, but it gives CFOs a reliable window into order backlogs by region, currency exposure, and profitability by collection—so you can react early rather than after the quarter closes.

Implementation tips for Indian jewellery brands

1. Start with your master data – Clean item masters with purity, color, weight range, and stone attributes. Decide where you’ll use a lot vs. serial tracking. Good masters are the difference between clarity and chaos.
2. Model real BOMs, not ideal ones – Include expected wastage, recovery, rework steps, and typical subcontract processes. If it happens on the floor, put it in the system.

3. Digitize quality proofs – Attach hallmarking acknowledgments, test certificates, and vendor QC sheets to lots/items. This speeds audits and increases buyer confidence.
4. Automate GST documents – Configure e-invoicing and e-way bill once; train teams to validate from Odoo. It cuts errors and saves hours every week.

5. Pilot POS in one store –  Fine-tune counter workflows, barcodes, and approvals (e.g., manager PIN for heavy discounts). Roll out once stable.

6. Watch the external signals – Keep an eye on trade news; use Odoo to tag orders by market so you can simulate tariff or freight scenarios.

The business case: fewer surprises, better margins

Jewellery margins depend on three truths: never lose track of material, never lose time between steps, and never miss a compliance beat. Odoo hits those points by unifying production, inventory, finance, and sales.

For Indian manufacturers, the India localization (e-invoicing and e-way bill), strong shop-floor features, and easy POS/eCommerce integration make it a practical system of record—one that scales from a single workshop to a nationwide brand.