Kitting items are collections of items that are priced and sold through Order Entry as a single item, and are often collected together at sale time—such as a particular computer, keyboard, and monitor combination, or a back-to-school binder, pencil case, and felt pen set.
The cost of a kit is based on each individual item in the kit. If the price is based on costs, it is determined by the cost of all the items together.
Important! You use the I/C Items screen to add a kitting (master) item record and all of the component item records. Then, you specify the kit contents using the I/C Kitting Items screen.
The difference between kitting items and items assembled using bills of materials is that:
- Kitting items allow you
to group items for special promotions, and sell them as a single item.
Kits do not have build costs, and the kitting item is not treated as a stock item. Therefore, there are no stocked quantities of the kit—only of the components.
- Bills of material, on the other hand, are designed for manufacturing items from other items or subassemblies, and for stocking the new items.
For both kinds of assemblies, you must add the master item record and all of the component item records before you can define the kit or BOM.
When setting up kitting items, note that:
- Kitting items must use an account set code that has a user-specified costing method.
- You must choose the Kitting Item option for kitting items.
- Kitting items cannot be stock items.
- Kitting items can include non-stock components—such as shipping or installation fees.
- Kitting items cannot use serial numbers.
Serialized Inventory and Lot Tracking
If you use Sage 300 Lot Tracking, you can track kits by using lot numbers or serialized inventory numbers for kitting item components. However, the actual kitting master item cannot have a serial number.
See the Order Entry help for instructions about assigning lot numbers to the tracked components.