wrong partner when creating supplier invoice

[Eric Caudal - www.elico-corp.com]

I first create a purchase order with a customer as destination address.
I have the packing list 'incoming product'. When I click on create invoice, the supplier invoice is created but instead of assigning it to the supplier, the invoice is assign to the customer as partner.

[JMA(Open ERP) (jma-openerp)]

Hello Elicoidal,
This is not a bug at all, but just a misunderstanding for you.
The purchase order form will only allow you to select the partners which are Suppliers which means, Company is purchasing some product from the Supplier X.

Once you Create the relevant invoice ,it will be a supplier invoice and the partner(categorised as a supplier for you) X will be treated as the partner for the invoice.

So on the 'Supplier Invoice form' you will see the partner as 'Supplier' , the one who has been selected as a 'Supplier' in the 'Purchase Order form'.

Hope this helps.

[Eric Caudal - www.elico-corp.com (elicoidal)]

I expressed myself incorrectly:
I want to create a purchase order from a supplier that I want to send directly to a customer, without entering my warehouse.

For this , when creating the purchase order, I put the supplier in the partner field and at the same time, I blank the warehouse field as long as I choose a customer in the "destination address" field.

So I will receive my supplier invoice from the supplier (chosen as partner in the PO), even if the goods are going to the customer and the Packlist should indicate in "from" the supplier's address (or my company address) and in "to" the customer's address.

Nevertheless, when I click on create invoice, the system set the customer partner in my supplier invoice.

Am i doing something wrong?

[Jay Vora (Serpent Consulting Services) (jayvora)]

Hello Elicoidal,

This is an ERP system, and if I guess this situation correctly,you are playing the role of a consultant here in this example.

ERP keeps the track of what have been the incoming products and what has been the outgoing ones.

If you want your warehouse to be a silent observer, its not a proper business process scenario for an ERP I guess.

Tell us more, we would like to help you out for this situation.

Thanks.

[Eric Caudal - www.elico-corp.com (elicoidal)]

Hi Jay,
I am not really a consultant even if I have a large experience in ERP in general. In this case, I already installed openERP for my trading company (buying products in Asia and selling them in Europe) and I have being using it everyday for a year for purchase order, sales order and accounting.

I have a warehouse which is involved in some aspect of the business, mainly when products are going through it. Nevertheless, the case I explain previously is as well a common case in my situation : you load a container in the supplier's place and you send it directly to the customer without storing the goods in the warehouse. In this case, the delivery address should be customer's but partner should remain the supplier.

regards
Eric

[Jay Vora (Serpent Consulting Services) (jayvora)]

Hi Eric,

I was just saying consultant for example only , do not take it eitherway please.

You may try the module sale_supplier_direct_delivery from https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp-commiter/openobject-addons/stable_5.0-extra-addons.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

[Eric Caudal - www.elico-corp.com (elicoidal)]

thanks a lot! It seems indeed to correspond to my needs. I will test it asap.
Best
Eric