evinna
Level 3

Inventory and purchase order to suppliers - how to manage prepayment to supplier and have the inventory stock updated only after receipt of stock?

I encountered an issue with PO and inventory quantity update. How to create a bill and pay a bill from PO WITHOUT updating the inventory quantity? We have to prepay our supplier PO before they ship the products to us, therefore from our bank, there is deduction of payment, so we create the bill from the PO, and pay the bill. However by doing so, it will also update the inventory qty even when we have not receive the products. Do you have any advice on how we can solve this issue? If we don't create the bill from PO, and only do a journal entry CR Bank, then if by the time we receive the physical inventory and decide to create the bill, wouldn't it have a double deduction of payment from our bank account? could you kindly assist