Your time as a business owner and entrepreneur is valuable; Unfortunately there are also a lot of aspects of running an ecommerce business that can put a drain on that time. Product kitting is just one example of a time suck to which even the smartest entrepreneur can fall prey.
That’s where kitting services can help! You can outsource this tedious task so you can spend your time working in your company instead of on your company.
What Are Kitting Services?
Kitting is the simple process of combining multiple single items into one unit that has its own sku. This can be as complex as putting together gift baskets with multiple products or as simple as putting a single bottle of supplements inside its own box. That individual “kit” can then be delivered to the end user.
Many third party logistic companies (3PLs) and order fulfilment companies, like Ship Central, offer kitting services to their customers to help them save time, money and help them have better control over their inventory.
Benefits of Kitting Services
Save Time
There are many other important tasks that you and your employees could be working on rather than kitting. Kitting is not a value adding task unless it’s elaborate in some way. This makes kitting a service that you can easily outsource and reinvest your time on other value adding tasks.
Save Money
3PLs that offer kitting services are well prepared to handle the fluctuation in needs and are able to offer better rates than if you were to hire your own team. In addition because we’re experts the job can get done faster which will also result in you paying less. It also cuts down on storage space too!
Better Inventory Control
Shortages and quality control issues can be addressed quickly and easily when you make use of kitting services. Instead of waiting for each individual order to come in and finding out then that there’s an issue the problem can be addressed right away. It’s like baking a cake. Instead of adding each ingredient as you go only to find out you’re out of eggs, you can gather all your ingredients at once and discover the issue before you’re halfway through the recipe.
Who Needs Kitting Services?
Many of our kitting customers sell on Amazon and in stores. We can help you kit your products, palletize and send them wherever they need to go. We make the entire process simple and easy for you to not only save you time and money but headaches too!