Drop shipment is the term used when a company sells products that are kept in stock at the supplier(s).
The end customer places an order, which is forwarded by the store to the supplier. The supplier is responsible for transport to the end customer. The advantage of dropshipping is that you do not have to keep stock yourself. It saves you space, risk and of course costs.
Dropshippen with Odoo
Odoo gives you the opportunity to drop-ship carefree. In the purchasing app, it is indicated at product level whether drop shipment is possible. You can start immediately after activation.
When a sales order is now confirmed, no delivery is created, as we normally do. After all, we do not do the delivery ourselves. On the purchasing side, a purchase order is prepared for the supplier with the customer's address as the delivery address. It can hardly be easier. The customer orders from us and our supplier arranges the shipment.
Below, you can see how such a purchase order to the supplier basically looks like. The delivery address on the document is the address of the end customer..
In order not to lose sight of whether the deliveries have actually been made, the drop shipments are tracked separately in the stock module. When the supplier confirms that the delivery has been made, we report the delivery as ready in Odoo so that we can complete the order.
This way we can easily process a customer order and forward it to our supplier.
Dropshipment – Stock in abundance without your own warehouse