Purchase - Odoo 17 Enterprise Book

3-Way Matching

For sellers who don't want to hold an inventory, dropshipping is one of the practical shipping options available. You can ship goods straight from the vendor to the buyer using this technique. Since there is no need to maintain warehouses because deliveries are made directly from suppliers to customers, it will be more advantageous to the merchants. The dropshipping approach will assist you in sending the products to the consumer directly from the supplier or manufacturer rather than maintaining an inventory.

In Odoo17, you may activate the Drop-shipping method from the Settings menu of the Purchase module. The option will be accessible under the Logistics tab, as shown in the image below.

As indicated in the image below, you can now specify the product that you wish to dropship and set the routes of operation to Dropship. On the product detail form's Inventory tab, the choice is available.

With the aid of the Inventory module, you may control a product's operational pathways.

From the Sales module, you can now generate a sales order for this product. The relevant field can be used to include the customer's information.

A purchase order for this item from the relevant vendor will be automatically generated as soon as you confirm the sales order by clicking the Confirm button.

Using the window's smart button, you can view the recently generated purchase order.

You can Validate the Dropship in a new window by clicking the Dropship smart button.

How Odoo17 manages dropships is as follows.