Purchasing Product Kits

Product kits are predefined sets of components, which your company groups and sells together. Kits that are considered to be a single unit, such as a Kitchen Sink Kit, are called dynamic kits.

For example, your branch sells complete kitchen sinks. You sell them as a Kitchen Sink Kit. This kit includes the hot and cold taps, faucet, basin and all the connection washers and screws. You also purchase this kit from the vendor. Selling in kits keeps your cost down and your inventory management at a minimum. These dynamic kits are all complete and the kits count as a single unit.

List product kits on regular purchase orders as individual components. However, dynamic kits are purchased, such as the Kitchen Sink Kit, as a single unit from the vendor. The vendor ensures that all the appropriate components are shipped as part of the kit. You cannot list the individual components of dynamic kits on the purchase order, only the kit name displays.

Note: When a kit product is included on a Bill of Lading (BOL), the sum of the components' weight is used if the parent kit product has a weight of zero (0.00). If the parent kit product has a weight other than zero, than the parent weight it used.

To purchase a product kit:

Open a purchase order.
In the Qty/Unit field, enter the number of kits you want to order.
In the Product Description field, enter the name of the kit as you would any other product.
Press Esc to save your changes and exit the purchase order.

To set the product kit to print components:

From the File menu, select Product to display the Product Maintenance screen.
In the Product ID field, enter the product number for which you want to make a kit.
Use the Kit hot key to display the Product Kit Maintenance screen.
In the Print Components field, enter Y.
Press Esc to save the change and return to the Product Maintenance screen.
Press Esc to save the change and return to the main menu.