Subcontract Jobs - auto issue materials

We just launched Epicor last month and no one is well versed, so many thanks in advance and lay mans terms preferred.

We are issuing jobs for subcontracted operations (We purchase parts from one supplier, then it is sent to another supplier for finishing). This poses the question: By creating a job and issuing a PO to the first supplier, is there a way to have the quantity we ordered automatically generate a PO for the second supplier with the same quantity?

For further background the material from the first supplier never comes into our warehouse, so when issuing a job we have to wait to issue the material until we just receive notice of the operation being complete. Once that is done we check PO suggestions under subcontract and the quantity is always for whatever our need is not what the original PO was for - as if they’re not linked.

Thank you