We need some help with setting up OpenERP to handle purchases in a foreign currency. I searched through all the answers and the documentation and I see no way to achieve what we have to be able to achieve, except for manually editing the product prices before we place the order to the supplier.
Situation:
1. Our base currency is TWD
2. Supplier quotes us in USD
3. We need to place a purchase order with the EXACT product prices in USD as quoted by the supplier, not approximate prices as generated through OpenERP currency conversion at a time.
How can we accomplish this without manual intervention and external price list lookup during each purchase order creation?
If there is a solution to this I will need exact step-by-step instructions as I believe that I have tried everything that is described in the documentation, old forum and this new Q&A platform and my current understanding is that it is not possible for OpenERP 7 to handle purchasing in foreign currency based on exact, supplier agreed prices, but only using approximate prices depending on the present base to foreign currency exchange rate. I am still expecting that this is not true as being unable to automatically generate valid purchase orders in a foreign currency would be a monumental oversight for any ERP system.
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