Kit Management – An overview

The Kit Management component facilitates warehouse clerks in building, breaking and re-building of tool kits.

Tool kits are essentially parts of type “Kit”.

A tool kit is typically a collection of parts/tools. A tool kit consists of requisite number of specific parts. Prior to building kits, it is mandatory to record the following in the Part Administration component

• Part main information

• Kit composition definition

Here is a brief on the important activities of the Kit Management component.

Building kit parts: This activity involves the allocation of constituent parts towards creation of a kit part. The allocation of specific quantities of constituent parts is determined by the definition recorded in the “Maintain Kit Composition” activity of Part. The kit on completion is move to stock for issue towards maintenance.

Breaking kit parts: This involves removal of specific number of constituent parts from a kit part. These break away parts are issued to other critical maintenance tasks, such as AOG.

Re-building kit parts: You rebuild a kit part to restore it after it was broken up previously. When re-building a kit part, you allocate the required constituent parts to the kit part.

Viewing kit part details: You can retrieve kit parts based on search criteria and view details of them in the “View Kit” activity. The kit build, kit break or kit re-build details of the kit part are displayed as per the transaction that you select for the kit part.

Finding the number of kits feasible in a warehouse: You can find  the number of kits that could be built in a warehouse on the basis of the available constituent parts. You can also specify the attributes of the constituent parts that must comprise the kit part.

Getting familiar with the activities inside