We have a contract with a manufacturer outside of US. We send them POs whenever we want to manufacture some items. The items are shipped directly to the customers. We do not own the inventory.
This sounds like drop ship in NS. But the problem is that the sales do not trigger the manufacturing process. The creation of PO is based on our inventory plans and not on actual sales orders.
The only solution I have right now so that there will be no impact on inventory is to still create a drop ship sales order based on the actual number of items to be manufactured, so that the PO will be correct. Good thing it's for one huge customer only. We'll just create multiple invoices from that drop ship sales order if the actual sales differ. The issue with this is when we have 5 quantities left in one drop ship SO but there is an order for more than that. We can't just create multiple invoices for that one sale transaction.
Is there any other way to do this so that we our inventory won't still be affected?