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Purchasing is buying from vendors, at the prices vendors charge. Managing vendors and their pricelists is the foundation of informed purchasing. This piece is about it in Odoo. Vendors: the foundation...
Read postNot all purchasing is one-off. Some is an arrangement with a vendor that spans time. Purchase agreements and blanket orders handle that. This piece is about them in Odoo. Purchasing over time, not jus...
Read postA purchase commits the business to spending money, and significant spending should be deliberately authorised. Purchase approval rules ensure it is. This piece is about purchase approval rules in Odoo...
Read postBefore a business pays a vendor bill, it is worth checking that the bill is genuinely right. Three-way matching is the check. This piece is about three-way matching in Odoo Purchase. What three-way ma...
Read postFor products a business buys, keeping them in stock means buying more when they run low. Reordering rules can trigger that buying automatically. This piece is about reordering rules that trigger purch...
Read postWhen a business orders from a vendor, the goods do not arrive instantly; they arrive after the vendor's lead time. That lead time shapes purchasing and planning. This piece is about vendor lead times ...
Read postA vendor bill is what a business owes a supplier for what it bought. Handling vendor bills, and controlling them so the business pays what it genuinely owes, is part of running purchasing well. This p...
Read postPurchases carry tax, and the tax that applies depends on the situation, the vendor, where they are, the nature of the transaction. Fiscal positions handle that. This piece is about purchase taxes and ...
Read postNot all received goods are kept. Sometimes goods have to go back to the vendor, because they are wrong, damaged, or not what was needed. This piece is about returns to vendors in Odoo. When goods go b...
Read postA business's purchasing is a significant outflow of money, and what it spends, on what, with whom, is worth understanding. This piece is about purchase spend analysis and reporting in Odoo. What purch...
Read postThe chart of accounts is the foundation of a business's accounting: the structure everything financial is organised by. This piece is about setting up the chart of accounts in Odoo. What the chart of ...
Read postTax runs through a business's transactions, on sales, on purchases, and it has to be applied correctly and reported correctly. This piece is about configuring taxes and tax groups in Odoo. Why tax has...
Read postIf a question keeps coming up in your operations, it might be worth a blog post.