To support vendor consignment there is the concept of vendor owned inventory but the same type of feature would be useful both from a customer consignment process perspective as well as better supporting 3PL scenarios. The feature would also be very useful for subcontracting manufacturers who receives components from their customers requiring full support from a logistics perspective but as the components are never owned by the subcontractor it should be excluded from financial stock. Another process requiring this is for service providers who manage spare parts supplied by the customer but never owns the spares - they just use them for executing field service.

Other ERP packages has solved this by adding full support of inventory ownership in all inventory transactions.