A kit is a set of items that are picked for shipment. No real assembly takes place, and the configured item is not a physical entity; it only exists as a logical superset of its components. The configuration defines the content of a kit, and a shipment contains the end items that comprise the kit. Kit picking uses the PICK-FAS transaction, not the PICK-SO transaction. Wave reports and inquiries display data for the PICK-FAS transactions just as for the PICK-SO transactions. You can use Wave Open Order Report and set the Only Allocated Lines (Kit) to Yes to view data for allocated configured kits.

When selecting sales orders for kits for a wave, you select the kit parent item, not individual components; therefore, the kit parent item generates a warehousing order detail record. This is because the system always assigns the carrier (ship via) to the parent, not to the kit components, and carriers are important for waves.

Kit components require an Item-Warehousing Maintenance record so that you can select them for a wave and the system can use a warehouse item type to assign to lane groups in Lane Group Assignment; however, you do not need an Item-Warehousing Maintenance record for the parent item. If component records are not assigned, the system assigns a blank warehouse item type for the kit parent. If this occurs, you can assign a different warehouse item type in Item-Warehousing Maintenance.

You can press C in the Wave Selection Order Details frame to display kit configuration; the selected order line is a kit configuration.

You can use fields in Wave Planning Control to allocate kit components, display only allocated components for a kit, or ship available quantities for a kit.

When releasing a wave, the system creates PICK-FAS tasks just as does for PICK-SO tasks. When replenishing, the system creates for kit components and not the parent item. During wave release and release group creation/activation, all algorithms, ship-to and ship via codes, and orders are correctly retrieved for PICK-FAS picking tasks.

See Wave Planning Control, Third Frame.