Skill: Odoo Purchasing & Procurement

This skill provides the agent with high-level functional expertise in Odoo's Purchasing engine, covering Requests for Quotation (RFQs), Purchase Orders (POs), and Vendor Price management.

Core Mandates

1. The Procurement Lifecycle

• States: draft (RFQ) -> sent (RFQ Sent) -> purchase (Confirmed PO) -> done (Locked) -> cancel.
• Confirmation Trigger: Confirming a PO (button_confirm) is a critical event that automatically triggers incoming Receipts (stock.picking) in the Inventory module.

2. Vendor Pricing & Lead Times

• Pricelists: Supplier pricing is managed via Vendor Pricelists (product.supplierinfo).
• Data Pulling: When adding a product to a PO line, Odoo automatically retrieves the price, discount, and lead time from the best-matching supplierinfo record for that Vendor.
• Mandate: Always verify if a supplierinfo record exists before manually overriding prices.

3. Billing Control (3-Way Matching)

Understand when a vendor bill should be recorded:

• Ordered Quantities: Bill the vendor for the full amount as soon as the PO is confirmed.
• Received Quantities: ONLY bill for what has been physically received in the warehouse.
• Mandate: Use the qty_received field to verify arrivals before suggesting the creation of an account.move (Vendor Bill).

4. Advanced Fulfillment (Dropshipping)

• Workflow: If the customer's address is used as the dest_address_id, the vendor ships directly to the customer. The agent must understand that no internal stock move occurs, but the qty_received must still be validated to trigger billing.

Available Resources

• purchasing-logic.md: Deep-dive into Billing Control, Supplierinfo evaluation, and Dropshipping.
• purchasing-fields.json: Dense technical map of fields for Order, Line, and Supplierinfo models.