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Purchase

✳︎ Purchase orders, tenders and agreements

Automate procurement: reordering rules draft purchase orders when stock runs low, supplier price lists pick the right vendor and price, and blanket agreements handle recurring supply. Three-way matching keeps received goods, orders and supplier invoices consistent.

REORDER POINT - LIVE
MINMAXSTOCK ON HANDRFQ DRAFTEDBEST VENDOR PICKEDHITS MIN → RFQ → PO → STOCK REFILLS
BLANKET ORDERSLEAD TIMES
Procurement on rules, not memory

Purchasing by memory works until the week the buyer is on holiday. Odoo Purchase turns procurement into rules: when stock dips below minimum, a request for quotation drafts itself; supplier price lists pick the right vendor, price and lead time; blanket agreements handle the recurring supply nobody should think about.

Procurement runs on rules, not on memory.

Three-way matching keeps everyone honest: the order, the receipt and the supplier invoice must agree before payment. Vendor performance reports show who actually delivers on time, at the agreed price.

FIG.01 - THREE-WAY MATCHING
PO + RECEIPTSUPPLIER INVOICEPAY ONLY WHAT WAS ORDERED AND RECEIVED
Technical drawing · three-way match
How it works
the loop runs itself
STEP 01Stock dips below minimum
STEP 02RFQ drafts itself
STEP 03Best vendor and price picked
STEP 04Receipt matched to order and invoice
Auto RFQ
drafts itself when stock hits the reorder point
3-way
order, receipt and invoice must match before payment
Price lists
per supplier, with lead times and minimum quantities
On-time %
vendor performance measured, not remembered
Key capabilities
Spec sheet · 5 functions
Automatic RFQs from reordering rules
Supplier price lists and lead times
Blanket orders and purchase agreements
Three-way matching: order, receipt, invoice
Supplier performance tracking
In an ERPSWISS project
Part of our 7-step delivery
STEP 1Configure
We encode your reorder rules, supplier price lists and approval thresholds into the system.
STEP 2Integrate
Receipts update Inventory and bills match in Accounting: procurement leaves a clean, honest trail.
STEP 3Train✳︎
Your team learns Purchase in the training step of our 7-step journey, with your processes documented in your own Knowledge base.
Good to know

Odoo Purchase: one module, one shared database, zero double entry.

Odoo Purchase is one of the standard applications of the Odoo platform, part of the Inventory & Manufacturing family. Like every Odoo module, it runs on the same database as CRM, sales, inventory and accounting: information entered once is available everywhere, with no connectors, no sync jobs and no manual exports. Companies choose it to replace a patchwork of disconnected tools with one integrated system that is easier to maintain and cheaper to own.

In daily work, teams rely on Purchase for: automatic rfqs from reordering rules; supplier price lists and lead times; blanket orders and purchase agreements; three-way matching: order, receipt, invoice. Because the module is part of the platform, every action leaves a clean trail for reporting: managers watch live dashboards instead of assembling spreadsheets, and the numbers stay consistent across departments and companies.

ERP SWISS is an official Odoo partner. We implement and configure Purchase for companies in Switzerland, France, Germany, the EU and Armenia, including localization, data migration, staff training and long-term support. A typical implementation takes weeks, not months: we configure the standard module to your processes first, and add custom development only where it truly pays off. Book a free demo to see it on your own scenarios.

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