About Wilkes Woodworking

Wilkes Woodworking is a fast-growing manufacturer specializing in custom and semi-custom over-the-range kitchen hoods. Each hood is individually built to customer specifications, style, size, finish, and detailing, making craftsmanship, precision, and configurability central to their business.

Since 2019, the company has scaled rapidly, now producing over 100–125 hoods each week. As volumes increased, Wilkes Woodworking recognized the need for a robust digital backbone to manage configurability, order accuracy, production scheduling, and cost visibility across their operations.

Partnership with Aktiv

Wilkes Woodworking approached Aktiv initially for Odoo CPQ, seeking a better way to configure highly customizable hood designs. After evaluating their broader challenges, order tracking, manual data entry, invoicing delays, and production visibility, they decided to partner with Aktiv to take their Odoo 18 SH implementation to the next level.

While Odoo’s starter services helped establish basic functionality, Wilkes needed a deeper, manufacturing-focused approach to align Odoo with their real operations.

They chose Aktiv for its expertise in CPQ, manufacturing, and multi-stage production flows, ensuring the system evolves into a central platform that supports both current needs and future scalability.

Key Challenges of Wilkes Woodworking Before Optimizing Odoo

Orders entered manually twice (once in Hoodsly’s system HUB, and again into a Google Sheet before re-entering in Odoo)
No unified production tracking or dashboard for scheduling workloads
Difficulty handling RUSH or EMERGENCY orders within their workflow
Lack of Shop Floor, Manufacturing, and Quality modules to support real production flow
No systematic way to track the status of each hood through its build cycle
Invoicing delays due to manual marking of “built” and “shipped” orders
Limited visibility into material consumption, labor time, and per-hood production costing
Need for strategic guidance on future Odoo modules like Accounting, HR, and Timesheets

These limitations caused bottlenecks, manual overhead, and reduced operational clarity as the business continued to scale.

How Wilkes Woodworking Will Use Odoo

Configurable Order Management for custom and semi-custom kitchen hood builds
Elimination of Duplicate Data Entry across HUB, spreadsheets, and Odoo
Production Planning & Tracking with unified dashboards and workload visibility
Rush & Priority Order Handling within structured workflows
Manufacturing & Shop Floor Enablement aligned with real build processes
End-to-End Hood Status Tracking across the production lifecycle
Invoicing Automation tied to actual build and shipment events
Cost & Resource Visibility for materials, labor, and per-hood costing

Customer Success Stories

Not to flex, but these are some Real results. Real wins.

4.7

is our

average

Aktiv Software Pvt. Ltd. followed up on the project as promised.

Bjorn-Midtlien

Bjorn Midtlien

CEO, Digitus Nordic AS

Rather than focusing on short-term fixes, their approach is pragmatic, focused on sustainable, long-term results.

Kasper-G

Kasper G

Owner, Nordic by Choice

Their solution has helped us reduce our project managers' time for invoicing from a week to two days.

Kateryna-Mykhailenko

Kateryna Mykhailenko

Manager, ToxMinds

On a scale of 1-10, we would rate Aktiv’s partnership as 11.

Fabrice Beaux

CEO, InterHyve Sàrl

About Us

Aktiv is Odoo certified partner offering end-to-end implementation services.

We don’t just implement ERP, we bridge the gap between technology and your workforce, ensuring smooth adoption, empowered employees, and maximized ROI.

With over 10+ years of experience implementing Odoo for SME and Enterprise clients, we know how to assist you in your digital transformation journey. It’s what we do the best!