Overview of kit handling in Warehouse Management

Kit handling facilitates:

• Delivery of incomplete bills of material (BOM) or kits. This is useful if, for example, part of the ordered components are unavailable due to inventory shortages, but the customer needs what is available at short notice.

  The remainder can be delivered later, from inventory or through direct deliveries if that is the fastest way to serve the customer. On the sales order line, you can switch from delivery from inventory to direct delivery. You can use shipping constraints to control partial deliveries. For more information, refer to Kit handling support and shipping structure setup.

  To allow delivery of incomplete kits or BOMs, the structure of sales orders and related warehousing orders is adjusted. For more information, refer to Sales and warehousing order structure.

• Modifications to BOM or kit structures even after they are put on sales orders - the last stage you can implement changes is at confirm shipment. For more information, refer to Process BOM changes to Sales Order (tdsls4263m000) and How changes in component lines affect outbound order lines and shipment lines.

• Changing the ordered quantities on the sales order or cancel orders at advanced stages in the delivery process. For more information, refer to How changes in component lines affect outbound order lines and shipment lines.

• Flexible shipping structure setup. On the warehousing order type, you can specify how loads and shipments are structured to ship components by subkit. In addition, a graphical user interface allows you to manually adjust the shipping structure generated by LN, optionally using shipping containers if the required parameter is set. For more information, refer to Sales and warehousing order structure and Shipping structures.

  The warehouse order type settings controlling load and shipment structures and the parameter setting allowing the use of shipping containers support kit handling initiated in the Sales Control module, but they are not required. If not used, however, the shipping structure may not adequately reflect the topkit- subkit- component structure initiated in the Sales Control module.

  These settings are also available if kit handling is not implemented in the Sales Control module.