I am having an issue creating vendor bills when the vendor does not bill us for everything that we have received.
Situation: Bill Control is set to Received Quantities. Create RFQ for 1 product with a quantity of 15. Confirm the order and receive the entire quantity. The vendor sends a bill for only 14 of the units. Using Create Bill from the Purchase Order model correctly prepares a bill for the product using a quantity of 15. Edit the bill line's quantity billed to reflect the actual amount of 14. Open up the PO again and Create Bill for the remaining partial vendor bill. The system returns a validation error because there was already a bill associated with that vendor reference number.
When we receive less material than the PO demand there is a "backorder" function to preserve the original PO demand and create an additional receipt, expected to arrive at a future date. Shouldn't there be something similar for the vendor bill when, for whatever reason, they don't fully bill for the products we received?
It would seem like the solution to this would be to either:
- somehow remove the auto-filled link of the vendor reference number from the purchase order to the bill.
- stop using the vendor reference field on the purchase order, and enter the bill reference manually.
