Comment 2 for bug 724525

We very often change the description of a product if we add it to the Sales Order. (sale.order.line name) This description of the product is passed as it should to the created invoice but not to the Purchase Order.

An example for business cards:

1.) We add the product "Business Cards" to our Sales Order and change the description to "Business Cards 300g - 10 variations"
2.) We confirm the Sales Order and a Purchase Order is created but only with "Business Cards" for the product description.

This is very time-consuming because you have to change the generated Purchase Order by hand...

Hopefully this explains a little better what i meant.

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By the way most of the time we have to create Ourchase Orders before we can confirm the Sales Order because we need an up to date price for the products. So we have to create this Purchase Orders manually right after creating the Sales Order. Even worse after i confirm the Sales Order i get another Purchase Order from the Sales Order wich is not needed at all because we already have an up to date price and a confirmed Purchase Order from our supplier.

My suggestion would be that there is a new button in the Sales Order called "Create Purchase Requisiton" So i could obtain the up to date product prices before i confirm the sales order - wich in fact is what we do all the time.

Sure "Purchase Requsitions" would need to be expanded a litte because you have to add the "Product Description" field and the "Analytic Account id" field to Purchase Requisitions - BUT this would make Purchase Requisitions MUCH MORE USEFULL anyway because the created Purchase Orders from the Purchase Requsition would not force us to change the "Product Description Text" and the "Analytic id" manually later on.

Workflow should be that only Products of type "Service" and with "Supply method: Produce" are created automatically as Tasks when confirming the Sales Order (Because Tasks are only done and created after confirmation of the Sales Order).

And as a special goody if no one pressed the fabulous new button until the conirmation of the Sales Order you could give a little hint at confirmation like "There are no Purchase Requisitions created from this Sales Order. Would you like to do this now?" ;)

This would make the OpenERP very usefull for a whole bunch of service companies wich always have to ask for a price beforehand! :)

Please feel free to ask for any additional information you probably need (and sorry for my english!)