An item kit is a group of items that are issued as one single unit. You assemble an item kit and add it to a storeroom as one "package" of items that carries with it the required costing and balance information. You can then issue an item kit to a work order using the single kit item record, instead of entering multiple, separate item records. The technicians on the work order use all the components within the kit to perform their work, or they can return any unused components back to a storeroom.
For example, a construction company writes several hundred work orders each year to maintain its paving equipment. Most of these jobs are similar and require the same type of labor craft, bill of materials, and tools. If maintaining a steam roller always requires the same six items, you can create an item record and flag it as a kit. You can define the list of component items and their quantities on the Item Assembly Structure tab in the Item Master application.
When you add an item kit to a storeroom, you optionally can specify balance information to indicate that some number of the item kit are already assembled in the storeroom. To assemble item kits and add balances, you use the Assemble Kit action in the Inventory application. When you assemble a kit, the system increases the balance of the item kit record, and decreases the current available balance of the components used to construct the item kit. You use the Disassemble Kit action to break an item kit within Inventory back into its respective components. This decreases the balance of the item kit record and increases the balance of the individual kit components within the storeroom.
When working with item kits, the following rules apply:
When adding a kit to a storeroom, if the component items do not already exist in the storeroom, the system creates inventory records for these items.
You cannot create item kits that contain condition-enabled, rotating, or lotted items.
You cannot assemble or disassemble item kits across storerooms. You must gather or return items to a single storeroom location.
You cannot assemble more kits than there are individual parts in the storeroom.