Not sure if anyone will be able to assist with this as it seems to be a rather obscure use case, we use lot numbered assembly items and current do most of our transactions manually, we are looking at implementing "outsourced manufacturing" and using it in combination with "inbound shipments" however there is no direct way to define the inventory detail on the inbound shipment when handling an outsourced manufactured product. Has anyone dealt with anything similar or have any suggestions how to handle this without that interaction working? (its been flagged as an enhancement)

I recently implemented outsourced manufacturing and inbound shipments but we didn't have lot numbered assemblies, just standard assemblies - why do you need to specify the lot numbers on the inbound shipment? I would assume you would specify them on the receipt of the component PO.

the outsourced PO should create the work order and then the receipt of that PO should build the assembly and complete the work order, The inbound shipment would be the trigger for the PO receipt in that scenario I believe? The first point the batch code would hit the system would be on the assembly build and our first notification of that would be on the receipt of the inbound shipment into our 3pl.

i would imagine that the inbound shipment is for your components, correct? so those are on a separate PO, not the outsourced PO - the outsourced PO is only for the service of assembling the finished product at your 3rd party manufacturer

We have already purchased the components in advance and then transfer them to the "building party" where they mix with the outsourcing service and a few of their own components that are included on the same PO> so the source PO for the inbound shipment is for the manufacturing