Product Kitting can increase sales, product exposure, and customer satisfaction. It can help you to differentiate your content as a bundle, which has the added benefit of eliminating decision-making and uncertainty for customers that are concerned if different parts will work together well.

 

Alternates within Kits allow you to list the same item on multiple listings and automatically calculate the quantities according to sales and how many of the actual item you have available for sale.

 

Kits and Assembled Products work in tandem to help list your online products in the most efficient and attention-grabbing way possible. Let's look at how these two SkuVault features work together to automate your picking process and make your business more money. 

 

Alternates occur when you have multiple listings (and SKUs) for one item. Within a kit line item, alternates act as multiple items that could be used to fulfill that part of the kit, should the default item be unavailable for any reason.

 

This is handy when the channel or marketplace you're selling on already has multiple listings for the same item.

 

Let's look at the video game bundle example again. 

 

 

• Kits
• Alternates
• Alternates within kits

What are Assembled Products?

Assembled Products are a type of Product Kit that are created by physically removing the kit components for a particular kit from their physical location(s) in your warehouse, physically bundling them together (ie: shrink wrapping or boxing), and creating a new Assembled Product in SkuVault; one with the same SKU as the kit SKU it derived from. 

You're essentially creating a bundled product kit whose components cannot be physically separated from each other, and therefore whose components cannot be stored in different locations.

How SkuVault Uses Assembled Products

Let's look at an example, like camera equipment, and see how easily it is to turn a Kit into an Assembled Product. 

You create a kit that contains the camera, the camera lens, memory card, and tripod - you also sell all of these items individually, but the holidays are approaching, and you want to create an easy-to-purchase bundle to increase sales.

When an order is placed for that Kit - let's give it the kit SKU of "holiday-canonsx4000starterkit" - warehouse workers must travel through your warehouse picking those individual items to assemble that Kit to ship it out.

If the bundle is a total hit with your customers, your employees are grabbing these components over and over all day, running back-and-forth through your warehouse, scanning and picking all these individual components. The Assembled Product feature allows you to pre-package that Kit in your warehouse ahead of time.

So instead of warehouse workers running all over the place to gather individual items to assemble a Kit, they can pick the Assembled Product from one location, which significantly reduces picking times. What was once a two-minute job is now a 20 second job.

The Benefits of Using Product Kits and Assembled Products 

Doing all of this manually is a huge job, and the larger your company becomes, the less practical it is to do something like this by hand. 

Assembled Products have two significant advantages over using Kits alone:

• They save man hours by reducing picking time for your best-selling kits
• They allow you to control the inventory levels of the individual Kit components on your marketplace

Product Kitting can solve a lot of problems, and it can definitely increase visibility and sales. But whether you do it through us, or someone else, please take our word for it, and automate everything.