Product Kitting Has Never Been Easier
Our Barcode-Based Inventory System empowers users to accurately assemble Inventory items through our efficient Kitting feature. Several terms are used to describe kitting such as product bundling or product assembly. It is the process in which usually separate but related barcoded items are grouped together as an individual item.
What is Kitting?
This Inventory System feature allows system users to choose specific Inventory items and combine them into a single product, SKU, or Unit. An example of this would be sorting managed inventory into subscription boxes. Doing so helps businesses obtain efficient order management by making the most of their inventory levels. This is essential for both small businesses and large supply chains.
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Streamline Your Assembly Process
With our Barcode Inventory Tracking System, users can easily create a kit by combining different Inventory items into one. This kit is defined by its “Bill of Materials” in our system. We also refer to this as a recipe with all of the ingredients, otherwise known as Inventory items.
Step 1: Define the Kit
Before you start cooking, you need the recipe and the ingredients. The recipe, or “Bill of Materials”, requires the quantities and locations of each ingredient. Once you have all of the information about the ingredients, this starts the Assembly Process in our Inventory system.
Helpful Tips for Defining Kits
There is one important aspect to note. Users can create many different types of kits such as, serialized, batched, or based on quantity. For a kit that has ingredients with expiration dates, batched is the correct type of kit.
Step 2: Create the Kit
For the next step, the user must tell the system how many kits to assemble. The system knows the needed ingredients, the required quantity for each ingredient, and where the ingredients will be pulled from.
Determining Maximum Kit Number
Our system will alert the user how much quantity is available and the maximum number of kits that can be made. This notifies the user if they need to replenish those stock items for the pre-assembling and kitting process. This helps with planning long term by ensuring that safety stock levels are secured for future reorder points.
Step 3: Need a Substitute?
Our inventory management system is well prepared for when certain ingredients do not have enough raw materials. That’s why we have a method to use substitutes that fulfill the recipe’s requirements. When stock levels are insufficient, our system allows for a substitute stock item #.
How to Define A Subtitute
Users will need to simply define the substitute and the quantity required for that substitute. Once selected, the request is ready for processing! Creating backup processes is vital to aid kitting practices.
Step 4: Process the Request
Once you have the items, quantities, locations, and possible substitutions, you may process the request! An employee can then go pick and scan the items in the kits off of the shelves. This is applicable for any assembly location.
Kitting can help any Setting
Please note that this kitting feature can be used in a variety of industries and Inventory types. It can be applied in virtually every setting from schools to homeless shelters to furniture. No matter the setting, inventory management software’s kitting feature can help modernize their stock control and increase sales.
Kitting Settings
In our system configuration, users can choose to Enable or Disable the ability to create kits or substitute kit items. Once enabled, users can select multiple substitute items that can be used instead of the main kit items. The goal of this is to allow multiple item stock #’s to be used as replacements for the main item
Benefits of Kitting
By utilizing the kitting feature to the fullest, workplaces can enjoy these essential benefits
Traceability
For Inventory systems, this feature is of particular importance. These systems need the ability to trace the components and materials used in their assembled products. This makes it easy to locate the source from which they came. Our Inventory system creates specific reports to trace where Inventory came from, how much, and where it went to.
Efficiency
Our Inventory System streamlines the manufacturing process using barcodes especially when creating multiple kit variations. In turn, this improves Inventory control, saves time, and increases manufacturing productivity during the manufacturing cycle.
Generate Reports
Our Inventory System enables users to generate configurable Kitting Reports for extended visibility. Using our system, users can isolate the history of specific kitting, assembly processes, and batches. Once the settings have been selected, it can generate automatically and email such reports on a preset delivery schedule. Users can also generate reports that include the barcode images for faster scanning during the picking, kitting and Inventory movement process.
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