Process question - manage stock at customer site

Dear all,
I have a business requirement and I am having difficulties mapping it to SAP, as I had never seen this process.
My customer is a TELCO customer and sells or consigns materials to their agents (the materials have a serial number attached to it). They have a business need to always know how much stock is on their agents, so that they can plan their purchase orders accordingly whether if it's consigned or sold.
If it is a consignation process, there is no problem as we always have visibility of the stock on the customer site. But how to know what is the stock on customer site if we made a normal sales to them?
I have read a little bit about Vendor Managed Inventory but I don't know if it would be applicable as I have never customized it.
Regards,
Joã

After the delivery I invoice them immediatly
In SAP, once you billed the end customer, the invoiced quantity cannot be traced as the liability ceases from manufacturer. When inventory is not there, why do you want to keep track of this.  If you want still have to track the stocks, you have to create a zee table having the minimum required fields from VBRP and the customer code to whom the agent is selling along with afield called status.
As and when invoice is generated on the agent, the data should be stored in this table with the status as "stock with agent" and once the agent distributes the stocks from thieir warehouse, status should be changed to "sold" and based on this status, you have to have a zee report.
thanks
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