We have our products' Bill Control setting as "received quantities". Sometimes a supplier will send us a bill for products on a PO but we have not received the products yet. What is the appropriate way to handle this situation? The goal is to still keep the bill linked with the PO and PO lines. I don't want to create a bill from scratch or show that the PO will never be fully billed.
I can change the product setting's bill control to "ordered quantities" but this update doesn't reflect on an existing PO. Somehow the PO line knows the product's bill control setting at the time of creation and won't update. If I duplicate the PO then the product's changed bill control setting takes effect.
I don't want to have to duplicate POs. I also don't want to enter manual bills that won't be linked to the PO lines. What is the recommended way to handle a situation where we need to change a product's bill control midstream?
You are free to enter the Bill normally, and override the quantity that Odoo assigns to each line (what you HAVE received) and this will then show you have billed for more products than received back on the PO line.