What is Kitting?

Kitting is an inventory technique where individual, but related, products are packaged and shipped together as a single bundle.

Kitting in a warehouse is the physical act of finding multiple SKUs, bundling them into a single package, and creating a new SKU numbers for that package before shipping. This involves warehouse workers picking multiple products and bringing them to an assembly area where they are packed together and shipped.

Why to use Kitting for Bulk orders?

Kitting is used by most e-commerce fulfillment brands to lower warehouse and packing costs when shipping the goods in form of physical bundles.

How can you use Kitting for optimising the warehouse operations?

You can refer to below to understand how can you leverage Kitting functionality in your day-to-day WMS operations.

SKU Master Creation

The current functionality of Virtual combo definition will remain as it is but virtual combo definition will be relabeled to Bundle definition.

Users can use the Products screen under Masters section in Increff OMS UI to create and update the Bundled SKU definition.

Bundle SKU DefinitionFor defining new Bundled SKUs in the OMS system, users need to create the Products in the product masters from Increff OMS UI or from external system (ERP/PIM) using Create Article Masters API

Once the Products are created, user can go to Bundled SKU definition screen to define the Bundled SKUs by following below steps:

1. Select the Client from the Client dropdown for which the Products were created in the Product master
2. Download the CSV file and add the data for the SKUs and Qty.
3. Upload the CSV file in the UI
4. Click on Submit button to confirm the Bundle SKU definition

<aside> ✅ You can also use Create Bundled SKU Definition API to create the Bundled defintion for the products

</aside>

<aside> 🗒️ Note:

• For B2C order having Pack type as PIECE, the Bundle definition will work as the Virtual SKU used to work.
  • Exisiting Virtual SKU defintions will be updated as Bundle SKU definitions.
• For B2B orders having pack type as BULK, bundle definition will be used for kitting.
• Marketplace Listing will allowed to be created both against B2B & B2C marketplaces for Bundled type SKUs, there would be no need to maintain the listings for Virtual and KIT SKUs, it would be catered using Bundled SKU definiton </aside>