Kitting and Assembly

Light manufacturing in the Warehouse
There’s a lot more going on in distribution centers today than simple pick, pack and shipping procedures. DCs are becoming limited production centers, requiring skills, equipment, processes and management practices not seen in traditional warehouses. Kitting, assembly and other work order processing can be more akin to light manufacturing processes than traditional distribution functions. So how do you direct and control these processes to prevent chaos and ensure accurate and efficient delivery to the customer?

Production centers
Turn your DC into an extension of your production operations with system-directed kitting, assembly and light manufacturing

RedPrairie’s Kitting and Assembly function is ready to get the job done. Unlike many of our competitors, we provide start to finish production as a standard feature to our Warehouse Management solution. Our work order processing capabilities assign, sequence and direct all tasks to ensure timely, consistent and accurate completion—ensuring your customers get what they want, when and the way they want it. In many ways it can be thought of as a build to order process for the DC.

Kitting and Assembly functionality includes:

• Kitting/de-kitting
• Assembly and light manufacturing
• Postponement strategies
• Value-added services
• Store-ready containers and pallets

Kitting and Assembly is a highly configurable feature, providing the flexibility to tailor processing to your initial needs, as well as to your ever-changing customer requirements. System-directed work ensures efficiency and throughput—even within the chaos of multiple, changing customer requirements. RedPrairie Kitting and Assembly puts you in control. That’s our response to the chaos theory.