Kitting and Staging Materials (Kitting)

Kitting and Staging helps warehouse operators to KIT (collect) the stock items of an order and place order for non stock items. Once all items in the order are kitted and staged using Kitting module, warehouse operators issue them to the maintenance technicians at one go and help complete the work with ease.

You get push notifications on mobile device when the kit or picklist is assigned to a technician from the Connected Back Office (CBO) application to pick material for a work order. You can quickly tap the notification and pick up the required material or spare parts using the mInventory application.

Kitting and staging are an important business process in most MRO warehouses. There is no standard SAP solution for kitting and staging. Many SAP customers have built custom desktop solutions which have not yet yielded the desired outcomes. This Kitting module from Innovapptive is designed for mobile devices which also works in offline mode in case of network and connectivity issues.

In warehouse management, material staging is the process of picking, grouping the components and delivering them together as a KIT to the requester based on the work order document. The maintenance technician submits the work order request to the warehouse department by adding the stock and non-stock items under the Components tab. A reservation document is generated for stock items and material is picked and moved to the staging area on the requirement date.

For the non-stock items, a purchase requisition is created and converted to purchase order and issued to the vendor to supply the goods. For more information, see Purchase Materials through Mobile Devices. When materials arrive at the warehouse from the supplier, goods are unloaded to the goods receiving area and directly moved to the staging area and placed in the correct bin. Both stock and non-stock items are combined as a KIT and work order status is updated to user status KITTED before goods are issued to the requester.