It can be a bit of a gap depending on how your routing and production environment are set up.
if a subcontractor routing step is just one operation within a routing and you are not using routing links, there is no warehouse documentation as there is no inventory to pick or ship, your items are just WIP values after you have consumed stock.
What you can do is split your routings up into multiple discrete production processes. e.g.
- Production order for your pre-subcon internal processes is completed and output as a partially finished item.
- Partially finished item is transferred to a subcontractor location where a second production order with a sub con routing takes places and is then output.
- This part finished item is then transferred back to your internal location for a third production order for your in house finishing.
Obviously you don’t have to have 3 steps. There could be more or less.
It depends on what level of control you need and how advanced your planning is as to whether this type of setup is practical. It’s perfectly doable in a structured environment with either a good understanding of planning or a low volume of orders (if you’re doing this manually).
