Kitting

Several separate products are put together into one ready-to-sell set, such as a gift box, a starter pack or a repair kit, either ahead of time or when the order comes in. The customer buys one thing; the warehouse handles several. This work is called kitting.

Decide up front how the stock is counted. If kits are built ahead, the system should hold the kit as its own product and take the parts out of stock when it is built; if they are built on order, the parts stay in stock until picked. Mixing the two without a rule is how counts drift.

Kitting adds a step, so it pays when the same sets sell repeatedly and building them takes a careful hand: the right parts, a fixed layout and a check that nothing is missing. For a one-off bundle, a checklist at the pack bench may be enough.