Hi,

You’ve highlighted what feels like a regression in Odoo’s workflow: in recent versions, vendor bills can no longer be created directly from the Purchase app. Traditionally, buyers—who manage the supplier relationship, prices, and quantities—could draft the vendor bill themselves. This allowed accounting to later validate the bill against what was agreed with the supplier, reducing back-and-forth.

Now, with vendor bills created only by the accounting team, it shifts responsibility away from the buyers and creates inefficiency. Accounting staff may have to chase buyers to resolve discrepancies, which undermines the lean, end-to-end approach where purchase officers managed the whole supplier process.

You also point out a practical issue: in most organizations, vendor bills are received directly by the accounting office (or sometimes logistics), not by buyers. Yet the “Upload Vendor Bill” function is located where the buyer doesn’t typically work. This creates friction, as the functionality isn’t aligned with the real-life flow of documents between departments.

In short: the change moves Odoo from a lean, integrated workflow to a more siloed approach, where purchase and accounting are less connected, creating unnecessary inefficiencies.

Hope it helps