Efficient order fulfillment is a key part of delivering a smooth retail experience, and the Product Picking process in Odoo 19 Point of Sale helps businesses manage it with greater accuracy and speed. Whether handling in-store pickups, warehouse transfers, or preparing customer orders for delivery, an organized picking workflow ensures products are collected, verified, and processed without delays.
In this blog, we’ll explore how the Product Picking process works in Odoo 19 Point of Sale, its key features, and how businesses can use it to improve inventory management, reduce fulfillment errors, and enhance overall operational efficiency.
The ‘Inventory’ settings tab section helps to configure your POS Sales inventory options such as, Operation Type, Allow Ship Later and Barcodes, as shown in the screenshot below.
In Odoo 19 Point of Sale, the Operation Type feature determines the source location from which products are deducted during a sales transaction. This functionality helps maintain accurate inventory tracking by allowing businesses to specify whether items should be taken from a dedicated POS location or from the general stock. For instance, if you want products sold through the POS to be removed from a particular location, you can configure the source location as ‘YourCompany: PoS Orders’, as shown in the screenshot below.
Features of setting an Inventory Operation Type
Odoo 19 Point of Sale's ‘Operation Type' functionality aids companies in managing the flow of inventory during PoS transactions. Among its notable characteristics are:
Custom Stock Source Locations: Specify the precise warehouse or stock location where goods are taken out during sales.
- Accurate Inventory Tracking: Prevents inventory mismatches by updating stock numbers in real time.
- Efficient Product Picking: Guarantees that products are selected from the right place to facilitate order fulfillment. The seamless integration of PoS operations with inventory and warehouse workflows is known as "Warehouse Management Integration."
- Flexible Configuration: Supports many types of operations for retail establishments, warehouses, and businesses with several locations.
- Reduced Stock Errors: Reduces human error in inventory management and stock movement. Increased Operational Efficiency: During point-of-sale sales, inventory management is made easier and stock transfers are automated.
If you order a particular product from this particular Point of Sale shop, the required product will be picked from this exact source location. To check this feature, let’s create a new POS Order, as shown in the screenshot below.
After validating the payment and completing the order, go to the ‘Orders’ window from the ‘Orders’ menu. This will show the list of all the POS orders of every shop sessions, as shown below.
Then, open the recently completed order details. This will show the order details including Reference number, Origin, Date, Employee and other details along with the product picking details in a ‘Pickings’ smart button, as highlighted in the screenshot below.
Inside the ‘Pickings’ smart button, you can see the dashboard of all the picking details of that particular order along with its Reference Number, From and To location, Contact, Scheduled Date, Source Document, Batch Transfer, Company and current Status as shown in the screenshot below.
To check the picking details, open the picking entry from the dashboard. In the displayed form, you can see the Operation Type as we mentioned in the Inventory settings of this particular shop, as depicted in the screenshot below.
In conclusion, Odoo 19 Point of Sale's Product Picking procedure helps businesses in precisely managing inventory and effectively completing orders. Businesses can improve overall POS operations with improved automation and control, minimize stock errors, and streamline product movement by properly configuring operation types and stock locations.
To read more about How to Manage Product Picking for a Sale With Odoo 18 POS, refer to our blog How to Manage Product Picking for a Sale With Odoo 18 POS.