Kitting

Sell products in bundles with the aid of Fishbowl’s kitting feature

Kits are combinations of two or more products that are assembled and sold as one bundle. They enable you to improve your order picking and order fulfillment, especially when you pair similar items together.

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Simplify sales order creation and reduce friction in the purchasing process

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Basic Kitting

Kitting serves a useful purpose in order fulfillment.

Basic Kitting

Your inventory is made up of many individual products. With Fishbowl’s powerful inventory management software, you’re able to analyze product sales to see which ones are often sold in tandem, like a bicycle tire and a bike pump. That indicates an opportunity to bundle those products in a kit to be sold as if they were one unit for faster shipping and better logistics in your warehouse management system (WMS).
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Putting Kits Together

Kits may contain many items from a variety of vendors to simplify order fulfillment.

Putting Kits Together

Creating kits might involve using a dozen or more products. Even if those kitted products come from different vendors and are priced different from each other, you can group them together into the same kit and sold as a single unit. This simplifies sales order creation and reduces friction in the purchasing process. You can also adjust your warehouse layout to store kitted items in the same section of the warehouse.
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Additional Kit Uses

There are a variety of ways you can create kits and use them in your business.

Additional Kit Uses

Kitting is about more than just selling complementary inventory together. It may also be used as a promotional strategy. If you want to offer a discount on certain products, combine them in a kit and sell them at a lower price than customers would pay if they bought those kitted products separately. You can also outsource fulfillment work to a third party logistics (3PL) provider to handle your assembled kits.
04 | Kitting Dead Stock

Bundle dead stock in kits with popular items to sell that inventory faster

Another way kits come in handy is when you have slow-selling products, also known as dead stock. Rather than letting dead stock take up valuable space on your warehouse shelves, try bundling those products in a kit with more popular products. Grouped together, they can be offered at hefty discounts when your customers purchase what they’re already looking for. This can help you streamline the way you fulfill orders to save time in your inventory system and WMS.

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05 | Advanced Kitting

Use the same product in multiple kits

Just because you put a product into one kit, that doesn’t mean it could never be used in another kit. You have the option to add the same product to as many kits as you like. The great benefit of kitting is that it opens up new possibilities rather than limiting them. Whether you're outsourcing to 3PL companies or doing the fulfillment work in your own warehouse, you can make the most of warehouse space and improve your WMS by using kits.

06 | Picking, Packing, and Shipping

Kitting affects shipping times and the way products are picked, packed, and shipped to customers

Kitting doesn’t necessarily mean you literally combine two or more products into the same packaging. Kitted items are still separate entities in the warehouse, and they can be combined in all sorts of ways. They only get bundled with other products when they are picked and packed in preparation for shipping to customers. Once the shipping label is on the shipping package, you know your kit is finally on its way to the customer.

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Case Study

Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare

Using kits to improve manufacturing, sales, and inventory tracking

  • Made great use of kitting features in the manufacturing and order fulfillment processes
  • Generated detailed demand reports to see what kits to put together for faster shipping times and fulfillment
  • Used serial numbers to track every inventory item that went into a kit
  • Viewed inventory quantities in real time across multiple locations

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