Kitting and value-added services (VAS) are where a warehouse stops being a storage business and becomes part of the product. Bundling components into a finished kit, assembling a display, pre-configuring hardware, or building a retail-ready pack are all margin you can earn on top of storage and movement. Loaditude treats kitting as a first-class workflow with proper quality control, not a note on a job sheet.
What a kit is
A kit is a finished item built from a defined set of components. The recipe for that kit is its bill of materials (BOM): the list of component SKUs and the quantity of each needed to build one unit. When you build kits, Loaditude knows exactly what to consume.
Building from a bill of materials
When you start a kit assembly, you tell Loaditude how many kits you are building. The platform calculates the component quantities required from the BOM and consumes that stock as kits are completed. This keeps your inventory honest: the moment a kit exists as a finished good, the components that went into it are no longer counted as loose stock. No separate stock adjustment, no double counting.
Components come from the same inventory you receipted at goods-in (see Goods-in and receiving), so kitting draws on real, located stock rather than an abstract number.
Multi-step assembly
Real assembly is rarely a single action. A kit might be picked, assembled, labelled, then packed. Loaditude supports multi-step assembly so a kit moves through the stages your process actually uses, and each stage is recorded. That gives you an auditable history of how a kit was built, which matters when a client asks why a batch behaved differently or when you are proving a process to an auditor.
Per-unit quality control before sealing
The most important control in kitting is QC before the kit is sealed. Once a box is taped shut and on a pallet, a missing component is an expensive customer complaint. Loaditude lets you run a per-unit quality check as part of assembly: confirm the contents are correct before the kit is sealed and counted as a finished good. Where barcodes are involved, you can scan to verify the right components are present rather than relying on a visual glance.
The effect is simple but valuable: kits that pass QC are the only ones that become sellable finished goods, so what leaves your warehouse is what the client ordered.
Why run VAS through the same system
- Stock stays accurate because component consumption is tied to actual kit completion, not a manual adjustment.
- Quality is provable because QC happens before sealing and is recorded against the assembly.
- Clients see it because finished kits and their status flow through to the same job records and the client portal.
- It connects to transport so a finished kit can move straight into a delivery without re-keying.
Where to go next
- Transport jobs and proof of delivery covers getting finished kits to the customer.
- The client portal explained covers what your client sees of the work.
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