Kitting Streamlines The Process

When it comes to warehouse kitting, you want a packaging and shipping process that is streamlined and efficient. This can be difficult to achieve when you are working with a variety of products that need to be assembled in a specific order. That's where our supply chain kitting team comes in!

As part of a comprehensive warehouse management system, we offer kitting and assembly solutions that will help your business get the most out of its warehouse space and shipping process. The kitting process will streamline packing for better inventory turnover, decreased freight costs and a more efficient warehouse operation.

What Is Warehouse Kitting And Why Is It Important?

Kitting processes involve assembling products in the warehouse in a specific order, oftentimes on an assembly line. This can be done for a variety of reasons, such as to streamline production, increase efficiency of the order fulfillment process or to simply reduce shipping costs.

Kitting can also be used to create custom product kits that are more appealing to customers. Product bundling kits with custom packaging, branded special kitting SKUs to provide added value added services for online stores.

A kitted bundle offers a cost savings for the consumer but also for the online retailer versus the individual items shipped separately. Kitted products also take up less storage space pre-assembled as opposed to the individual components. The kitting process can reduce inventory by packaging multiple SKUs.

There are many benefits for an ecommerce business to use a kitting services, but the most important one is that it can help improve your bottom line. By streamlining the production process, you can reduce waste and save time and money. For frequently ordered items, subscription boxes can be set to automatic replenishment. Complementary products can be bundled in the same box together to create kits, one unit with its own individual SKU.

Kitting can also help you increase sales by creating custom product bundles that are more appealing to customers. In some products, customers frequently purchase completed kits to save valuable time and are happy to pay an additional kitting fee, even for products requiring light assembly.

The Biggest Benefits Of Using Kitting Services

There are many benefits to using a kitting service, including:

• Reduce Shipping Costs: When multiple products are shipped together in one bundle, it can save on shipping costs, entice the consumer with a discounted price and arrive faster in one package.

• Increase Efficiency: When you adopt fulfillment operations with warehouse kitting processes, ready-to-ship products flow rapidly through the supply chain.

• Decrease Inventory: The kitting process combines so many opportunities that companies who aren't currently kitting their product line leave money on the table. Or worse, are giving money to competitors who use kitting services.

• Improve Customer Experience: Customer satisfaction scores are more likely to increase when they receive a custom kit that has been assembled specifically for them - as opposed to several separate items requiring assembly.

• Increase Sales: Custom product kits are more likely to be purchased than individual products that are not kitted together.

• Streamline Production: Kitting can help streamline the production process by reducing excess inventory and saving time.

How Does FAS Solutions Help With The Kitting Process?

Our team has a wealth of experience in product kitting and assembly solutions. We can help you design a custom kit solution that fits your specific needs. We also offer a variety of supply chain services, such as:

• Kitting Process: We can help you kit products together in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

• Assembly: We can assist with the assembly of kit products in our warehouse.

• Shipping: We can help you ship kit products to customers in a timely and cost-effective manner.

From simple kitting assignments to complex kits with many individual items, a new SKU, shipping internationally, we have not encountered a kitting process that cannot be represented on a simple legal pad.

Fulfillment Operations: Examples Of Kitting And Assembly Solutions

Some examples of kitting and assembly solutions we offer include:

• Automated Kitting: We can provide an automated kitting solution that will streamline the production process.

• Custom Product Kits: We can create retail enhancement kits that are more appealing to customers. For example, it's easier to order an office supplies kit versus individual components; not only increase sales and decrease inventory but the customer can save money.

• Shipping Services: We can help you ship products to customers in a timely and cost-effective manner. By creating a kit in an assembly area, we bundle multiple items together into a single package. Shipping products individually costs more than a single unit.

Subscription boxes can be offered as a new SKU for monthly rebill and automated shipping process.

Kitting solutions streamline packaging, and offer easier tracking through third party logistics and less strain on the fulfillment process than multiple products. Even complex kits requiring light assembly save time and money for both the business and consumer.

Fast Fulfillment is ready to handle kitting for your business from our warehouse in the Lenexa area. Our business has a wealth of experience in product kitting services and assembly solutions for ecommerce businesses nationwide.

We can help you design a custom kitting process that fits your specific kitting needs. We also offer a variety of kitting services, such as warehouse, inventory management, package, assembly, and shipping.

After Kitting, Product Distribution

The next step in the fulfillment process is to ship the product. We have already discussed how kitting reduces inventory and expedites shipping. Kits travel safer and faster than individual items in fulfillment operations. Product bundling enhances the customer experience with better packaging, receiving their ecommerce store faster and saving time by arriving pre-assembled. 

Call one of our friendly kitting consultants today to discuss your product packaging needs.