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.
Simplify sales order creation and reduce friction in the purchasing process
Basic Kitting
Kitting serves a useful purpose in order fulfillment.
Basic Kitting
Putting Kits Together
Kits may contain many items from a variety of vendors to simplify order fulfillment.
Putting Kits Together
Additional Kit Uses
There are a variety of ways you can create kits and use them in your business.
Additional Kit Uses
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.
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.
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
