Case Study: Toyota Material Handling achieves rapid 6-month implementation and quicker ROI with Odoo

How Toyota uses Odoo only after 6 months of integration in Customer Reviews

Toyota Material Handling France, part of Toyota Industries Corporation, manufactures and sells electric and IC-powered forklifts across Europe and also imports and modifies trucks from Japan, China and the US. After group restructuring they relied on a fragile custom configurator and lacked a proper ERP, which made order handling, production planning and cross‑unit procurement slow and risky—so they needed a low‑risk, fast‑payback solution to manage highly customizable trucks (≈40% of revenue).

Working with partner Smile, they implemented Odoo modules (Sales, Inventory, Manufacturing, Purchase, Accounting, CRM) for 10 users and went live within six months. The result was quicker ROI, lower maintenance than the old in‑house system, streamlined order-to-invoice and procurement flows, and an extensible platform that receives regular updates and lets their own developers add value as they progressively migrate more of their information system to Odoo.

Toyota Material Handling

Cyril Cottet

IT/IS Manager