Plants inventory at Vendor Location

Hi All,
This is something interesting I came to know from my client. Here is the current business process
There is a vendor who we subcontract work to but all the parts are inventoried at the vendor location even before the contract work begins. Until then, the inventory is owned by the plant and the vendor need to cut a Purchase Order everytime they want to consume
This can be well explained as an opposite scenario for vendor consignment. In vendor consignment scenario, plant stocks material that belongs to vendor and cut a PO when required to consume.
Can someone please explain if you ever faced a scenario(underlined above) and how to deal with it in SAP?
Thanks in Advance,
MG

Hi Sridhar,
Thanks for replying. I didn't quite understand your answer. May be my question is not clear.
There is only one plant and one vendor. This vendor is setup to do subcontracting work. But, the materials required for performing the work is already stocked at vendor's own site. This stock is owned by the plant not by the vendor.
Once the plant gets a request to make a product from a customer, the materials stored at the vendor location are then sold to vendor (then those materials are owned by vendor and taken off the ledger in the plant).
How can we set this up in SAP?
Thanks,
MG

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