Kits + Advanced WMS

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Posted on by Garry Baker

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I'm currently working on an implementation where the customer is interested in using Kits. The customer is not planning to implement call center functionality during the first phase of the project, and the warehouse will be WMS enabled. The customer will make some kits to stock, but most of the components will be stored separately in the warehouse. The customer wonders whether they can forecast at the kit and component level and whether they can generate kits on the fly.

For example, a sales order for Kit A is placed while there is no on-hand for the kit product. There is a sufficient inventory of the components to build the kit. My questions are below questions:

Is there a way for an assembly order or to be generated as part of the warehouse picking work?
Can assembly orders be generated dynamically from a sales order without using a call center?
Can the kit product be configured so that MRP explodes down to the components? So far, I've only seen planned purchase orders generated rather than "planned assembly orders" base don the available on hand of the components.

Currently on Update34 version 10.0.10

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Rahul Mohta 21,032 on at

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is your question about forecast for kits and it's components?

For forecast, should define at KIT level and during explosion in MRP it would suggest for kit components as well

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Sagar Suman 6,550 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Garry Baker,

I worked for a exact requirement for kiting in the past and this how I mapped it.

The kit item is made as a BOM items and all components needed to make the kit (Simple hand assembly by warehouse worker) are mapped as BOM for main kit item.

When you get a sales order for kit item you create a production or work order to generate assemble instruction for warehouse workers.

Generate a production order from sales order. (Both are linked)

Release production order to warehouse and system will generate a raw material picking work which is made available on hand held device to pick all raw materials and put them to a location where assemble will happen.

Once assemble is done report as finish production order.

System will generate a finished goods put away work to move items to FG locations.

Now release sales order to warehouse and a work is generated to pick the assembled kit and put it to a pack location and from there its normal advance warehouse shipping.

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Garry Baker 109 on at

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Thanks, Sagar. That's very helpful.

Were you also able to accomodate the substitute kit products in the both? On my project, the components would always be the same item, but the variants might differ (i.e. red large gloves with black belt vs. blue medium gloves with brown belt).

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Muhammad Harris 51 on at

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I have the same issue, we have significant amount of main components and substitutes in a kit. Further we have one to one site and warehouse relation.

My Scenario:

I am using retail Kit and creating customer orders from POS, they can picked/shipped from store and DC. Rather we keep assembled kits we want to assemble as per the order.

Why am I using kit? it gives flexibility of choosing substitutes at POS.

How can I release the assembly order for warehouse workers to pick components? if i release sales order, it will only release the kit item for pickup.

I have tried using production order from sales order, but it need BOM version to show the BOM lines in production order.

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