Driving your Purchases

In the preceding chapters you saw how to use customer invoices and delivery notes in OpenERP. This chapter is about the management of purchases, the process ahead of these two operations. You will now see how OpenERP handles and simplifies this and the control of purchases from suppliers.

For this chapter you can continue using the database already created or you should start with a fresh database that includes demonstration data, with purchase and its dependencies installed and no particular chart of accounts configured.

• All the Elements of a Complete Workflow
  • Setting up your Database
  • Price Request from the Supplier
  • Goods Receipt
  • Control of Invoicing
  • Control based on Orders
  • Control based on Goods Receipt
  • Tenders
  • Price Revisions
    • Standard Price
    • Average Price
• Purchase Analysis through Analytic Accounts
  • Powerful Statistics
  • To Each Enterprise its own Analytic Chart of Accounts