How to set up kits as drop ship items

Hi,

Please can someone help with the following;

We supply medical kits, some of which are custom made. Also, we outsource the kit supply to a manufacturer who supplies the components and makes them for us. We have set up the kit on NS as a 'kit' and this works really well. It allows us to change the specification until the customer is happy, and gives us instant costings plus a permanent record of suppliers component details, costs etc.

There does not seem to be a way of specifying a kit as a drop ship item, or non-inventory item for re-sale. This means that a PO is not generated automatically for the kit to go to our supplier. It will generate a PO for the individual items, but this does not work for us since our supplier sets the kit up as an item on their system and therefore we place an order for the item, not for the components. The item cost includes aspects such as labour etc. This seams a bit strange since there is a field