Kitting: a key service in e-commerce logistics

In the highly competitive world of e-commerce, customized logistics services are becoming a major factor in differentiation. This is the case for e-tailers, retailers and major chains. Among the services offered to optimize efficiency and enhance the customer experience, kitting is one of them.

This service involves assembling several separate items into a single batch or set. It is becoming essential for optimising the supply chain. It is particularly useful for companies in the textile sector, for prêt-à-porter, household linen and jewellery.

In this article you will discover :

What is kitting ?
How does it fit into the supply chain?
The benefits for e-tailers and retailers?

You’ll also discover why choosing our company to manage your kitting operations can save you time, improve delivery quality and reduce logistics costs.

What is kitting?

Kitting is a logistical operation involving the grouping of several distinct products into a single, coherent package. This kit can include a variety of products, such as clothing, accessories or complementary items. For example, assembling a pack of matching T-shirts, or a set consisting of a dress and a scarf, to create a complete outfit. This is often the case in children’s fashion.

As part of a kitting process, the company outsources the management of these groupings to a logistics service provider. The logistics provider not only assembles, but also prepares and dispatches the orders. Our e-commerce logistics company, specialized in textiles, has mastered the art of kitting to guarantee each customer a smooth and perfectly adapted management of their orders.

The benefits of kitting for e-tailers and retailers

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Optimizing logistics operations

Kitting optimizes logistics processes by streamlining order preparation. By grouping items into predefined kits, e-tailers and retailers can considerably reduce order preparation and processing times. Products are assembled upstream, which means they can be dispatched as soon as an order is placed. There’s no need to assemble them just before shipment.

Our kitting service is designed to guarantee fast preparation times and optimized order management. You may need to assemble clothing collections for a particular season, or promotional sets. It could be the addition of an accessory, a quality element in the packages, such as a care guide for a textile product (ready-to-wear, bed linen, bath linen, table linen).

We tailor our processes to your specific needs.

Improved customer experience

The customer experience is at the heart of every e-commerce player’s concerns. Kitting plays an essential role in improving this experience by offering a more fluid and consistent logistics solution. Customers receive their orders in the form of ready-to-use kits. They are carefully packaged and delivered on time. This translates into improved customer satisfaction and fewer product returns. The promise of increased buyer loyalty is assured.

Our company guarantees a rigorous approach to kitting, ensuring that each kit is prepared with care, and that the packaging conforms to your expectations. In the textile business, where aesthetics and presentation are paramount, we ensure that each kit is handled and shipped in optimal conditions.

In the cosmetics sector, our production operators assemble an assortment of items during order preparation, such as cosmetic boxes.

Lower logistics costs

Kitting also contributes to a significant reduction in logistics costs. By grouping products into kits, you limit the number of operations required for order picking. This translates into lower labor and human error costs. What’s more, this method optimizes storage space and streamlines warehouse organization.

Our company takes care of your entire kitting process, offering you a turnkey solution that reduces operational and logistical costs while guaranteeing high-quality service.

Kitting in the textile sector: a major asset

In the textile sector, kitting is particularly relevant. Fashion retailers and e-tailers often need to assemble. Whether it’s sets of garments, bundles of assorted items or promotional packs. Kitting enables these items to be grouped together into a single unit before shipment, offering a practical, value-enhancing solution for the customer.

For example, a retailer might offer a pack of coordinated garments for a particular season or theme: summer outfits including shorts, T-shirt and cap, or complete outfit kits for a specific event.

In the case of a household linen retailer, this could be bed linen (fitted sheets, comforter covers, pillowcases). Kitting makes it possible to respond rapidly to market demand by creating customized offers without disrupting the overall logistics flow.

Our company, with its expertise in the wellness sector, handles the entire kitting process for these types of assemblies. We ensure that each product is properly packaged and ready for dispatch, with particular attention paid to quality and presentation.

Why outsource your kitting?

Outsourcing kitting allows companies to concentrate on their core business while benefiting from an expert logistics solution. Managing kitting in-house can be costly and complex. It requires significant investment in terms of infrastructure and manpower. By entrusting this operation to a specialized service provider, e-tailers and retailers gain in efficiency while reducing their operational costs.

Our kitting outsourcing service is designed to adapt to the specific needs of each customer. We take care of goods receipt, warehousing, kit assembly, order preparation and dispatch. This turnkey solution enables you to benefit from smooth, optimized logistics management.

The kitting process in our company

Our kitting process is based on clear, rigorous steps, to guarantee optimum quality of service.

Receiving items

We receive your products in our warehouses, ensuring that each item conforms to your specifications. On receipt, we check quality and quantity.

Secure storage

Products are stored in optimal conditions to guarantee their preservation until the moment of assembly.

Kit assembly

Our team assembles the kits according to the instructions you provide. Each kit is carefully prepared, taking into account the nature of the products and your specific requirements.

Quality control

Before shipment, each kit undergoes strict quality control to ensure that the products correspond exactly to the end customer’s expectations.

Shipping

Once the kits have been assembled and checked, they are packaged and shipped direct to customers, guaranteeing optimum delivery times.

Kitting is an essential logistics personalization service for e-tailers and retailers, particularly in the textile sector. It not only optimizes operations, but also enhances the customer experience and reduces costs. Our company, which specializes in logistics outsourcing for e-commerce, offers kitting solutions tailored to the specific needs of each customer, guaranteeing a quality, fast and reliable service.

When you choose our services, you benefit from recognized expertise in the textile field.

What's the difference between kitting and bundling?

The kitting is a special packing process. It involves packing several items and shipping them as a unit. Once these items have been grouped together, they are ready to be shipped to the end customer.

Finally, each kit has its own separate SKU number. On the IT side, through our WMS.

The key to kit is that not all items in a kit can be sold individually. For example, the kit may require a special box and a promotional insert. These items have their own SKU number, which is displayed in our software. They cannot be purchased independently by consumers.

The bundling, on the other hand, is an individual packaging process in which the offer of grouped products becomes a single SKU. However, each SKU can be sold individually. It’s simply a matter of assembling a set of products in a box.