KP Component Setup overview

In this function, you can enter several different component types: regular component types, group component, keyword component, optional component, or reference component types.

Within the restrictions of the Required, Variable, and Substitute options, you can perform these actions:

• Change components of the kit
• Add or delete entire groups of components when the kit is being assembled in KP Work Order Center Entry or Sales Order Entry

Components that have been assembled into a kit and are readily available as stocked products are referred to as prebuilt kits. If a kit is prebuilt, the kit is assembled in advance of actual demand. It is stored in your inventory as a single product with its own identity. When the prebuilt kit is sold or transferred, warehouse personnel take the kit from the warehouse shelf and inventory is reduced. If the kit is not available, a back order is produced. You can then create work orders in KP Work Order Center Entry to restock the quantities to meet demand.

You can generate a special KP Entry Recommended Work Orders Report to create work orders for kits needing to be built, provided the Product Warehouse Product Setup ARP field is Kit. An ARP of Warehouse or Vendor indicates you stock this kit through warehouse transfers or purchase orders. Pick tickets, order acknowledgments, invoices, and bid worksheets and proposals for prebuilt kits show only the finished kits, not the components.

Build-on-demand kits are not assembled until an actual sales order is placed. You cannot place a BOD kit on warehouse transfers, purchase orders, or work orders because they are specific to a warehouse. Only the build-on-demand components are stored in your inventory. You have the ability to back order certain components for BOD kits. The Sales Order Entry pick ticket serves as the work order, and the kit is put together as the order is picked for shipping.

A BOD kit can contain a prebuilt kit as one of the components. This gives you the flexibility of using a quasi-multi-level bill of materials. When a BOD kit is requested in Sales Order Entry, availability is based on the available components on the bill of materials. This includes any prebuilt kits. If any prebuilt kits are listed on the bill of materials, the availability of the prebuilt kit is taken into consideration. The availability of the components of the prebuilt kit is not checked. This keeps the performance of Sales Order Entry acceptable for full interactive use and provides the best possible kit functionality.

You can also enter a nonstock or BOD kit in Sales Order Entry. This is to allow entry of kits that have not been set up in your inventory or in Kit Production. Although the kit is a nonstock, its components must exist in your inventory.

The primary entry functions for kits are KP Work Order Center Entry for prebuilt kits and Sales Order Entry for BOD or nonstock kits. In Sales Order Entry-Select Products, if you enter a BOD or nonstock kit in the Product field, the Kits tab is displayed. Click this tab to view all of the components on a particular BOD kit. Drill down to view Component Details. Some fields on this details window are enterable. If you modify information in the Kits tab, only values for this specific sales order transaction are affected; the original composition of the standard kit does not change. The components of a BOD kit always print on the pick ticket for the kit assembly purposes and can optionally print on the customer’s invoice.

With BOD kits, the kit price can be determined either from the kit itself or from the total of the price of the components. This is referred to as roll-up pricing. If roll-up pricing is used, each component includes a Price option to indicate if the price of this component should be used in the roll-up. The option to turn off the price allows for no-charge options and other special situations. The Price option is also used in the KP Administrator Cost Kits From Components Report when rolling base or list price on prebuilt or BOD kits.