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Prominent Large-Scale Contracting and Fabrication Company, Qatar
Client • Contracting, Aluminium Fabrication and Manufacturing
Challenge
A large-scale contracting company operating across aluminium and steel fabrication, construction, kitchen cabinets and manufacturing was running on an in-house ERP with limited capability. Manual tracking and approvals were the norm across two separate companies and ten users. There was no way to accurately track project profitability, manage BoQ versus actual material usage, or get a consolidated financial view across both entities.
Solution
Blue Bridge implemented a full Odoo setup covering Project Management, Sales and Estimation, Inventory, Procurement, Manufacturing and Accounting across both companies. The rollout was phased: estimation and contracting first, then project setup, then procurement and manufacturing, then inventory and accounting. Every step of the business from BoQ to final invoice is now tracked inside a single connected system.
Result
Full project profitability tracked per job from estimation through to completion
Multi-company setup with consolidated financial reporting across both entities
End-to-end flow from BoQ and quotation through procurement, manufacturing and invoicing
A Complex Operation With No System to Match It
The client runs one of Qatar's more complex contracting operations. Two companies under the same ownership cover aluminium and steel fabrication, complete house construction, windows, kitchen cabinets, powder coating and general contracting. Projects involve a mix of in-house manufacturing, imported materials, subcontractors and multi-stage site work. Across ten users and two separate legal entities, coordinating any of this required significant manual effort.
The existing in-house ERP could not keep up with the scale or complexity. Bill of Quantity preparation, project costing, procurement, work orders and invoicing were all handled in separate tools or through manual processes. Approvals were tracked informally. Most critically, there was no reliable way to compare budgeted project costs against actual spend, which meant management had no clear picture of whether individual projects were profitable until well after completion.
Phased Implementation Across Two Companies
Blue Bridge mapped the full business flow across both companies before any configuration began. Given the scale and complexity, a phased rollout was the only sensible approach. Estimation and contracting came first, giving the sales and engineering teams the ability to prepare BoQs, generate professional quotations and track client approvals inside Odoo. Project management followed, with milestones, task assignments and Gantt timelines replacing manual coordination.
Procurement and manufacturing were brought in next, connecting material requests to purchase orders and work orders directly to the relevant projects. Inventory was configured to track both fabricated and imported materials with project-based stock usage. Accounting was set up last across both companies with consolidated reporting, milestone-linked invoicing and full profitability analysis per project. Management now has a real-time view of where every project stands financially, from the moment a quotation is approved to the moment the final payment is collected.