Managing kit items

You define kit items and their components in Item Master (IC11.1) or Item Master and Location (IC10.2). Components are set up in multiple kits or as a kit in itself. For example, a lighting company might set up a lamp as a kit item consisting of three components: light bulb, lamp shade, and base. The company might also set up the lamp base as a kit.

Two kinds of kit items are available:

  1. make-to-order kits and
  2. finished goods (formerly called make-to-stock kits).

A make-to-order kit is assembled with kit components after it is ordered or requisitioned. Component items are stocked separately.

A finished good is produced and is meant to be stored as a kit item. Finished goods are used in the Production Order and Order Entry applications.

Make codes determine the kind of kit that is created. You can change a make-to-order kit to a finished good by changing its make code. You cannot change make-to-order kits to finished goods when the kit item has instructions or options.

Make code Indicates
O Make-to-order kit
S Finished good (formerly called make-to-stock kit)