Make maintenance readiness easier without giving up warehouse control
Kittix Core helps maintenance, planning, procurement, and warehouse teams work from one connected D365 process. Maintenance gets better visibility into the parts being prepared for upcoming work, while the warehouse keeps control of how inventory is picked, staged, handed off, and returned.
See whether the expected parts are moving toward a ready kit before the job begins.
Let planning and procurement manage supply while maintenance focuses on whether the kit is ready.
Keep staged maintenance material visible and inside normal warehouse processes.
Give maintenance and the warehouse a common view of where the kit stands.
Give each team a clearer role in getting parts ready
Know where the kit stands before the job begins
Maintenance can see whether planned material is ready to move into kitting and how the kit is progressing once warehouse preparation begins.
Turn maintenance demand into a process the warehouse can control
Instead of working from informal requests, the warehouse prepares maintenance material through D365 Warehouse Management.
Let supply planning and purchasing do their jobs
Maintenance plans the expected need while D365 planning and procurement can respond through their normal supply process when additional inventory is required.
Keep staged maintenance parts from becoming an inventory blind spot
Material remains identifiable while it waits for maintenance and unused parts have a controlled path back into inventory.
Close the gap between maintenance and procurement
Without a connected kitting process, maintenance may create a purchase requisition or purchase order for a part needed on a work order, then keep checking the purchasing document to find out whether the material has been ordered, received, and is finally available for the job.
That puts maintenance in the position of tracking procurement activity when what they really need to know is much simpler: are the parts ready?
With Kittix, the item can be planned as part of the maintenance job forecast instead of maintenance manually initiating the purchasing process just to make sure the material is available.
When Planning Optimization and the appropriate coverage settings are configured, D365 can recognize that forecasted demand and create planned supply when additional inventory is needed. Procurement can then manage that supply through its normal planning and purchasing process.
As the material becomes available and moves into kitting, the Work order job kit status gives maintenance visibility into what matters to them: whether the parts are being prepared and when the kit is ready for pickup.
Add the expected material to the maintenance job forecast.
Planning Optimization can create planned supply when coverage requires it.
Review and process supply through the normal purchasing process.
Bring available material into the work order kitting process.
See when the parts are being prepared and when the kit is ready.
Get the parts ready before the technician needs them
The value of work order kitting is not simply putting parts into a container. The real benefit is having the expected material prepared before maintenance is ready to begin the job.
Maintenance can follow the kit before scheduled work begins instead of waiting until the technician arrives at the storeroom.
Technicians spend less time trying to determine whether the expected parts have been prepared and where they are waiting.
Technicians can take all assembled material or only the parts they know they need for the work being performed.
Keep inventory under warehouse control
Maintenance kitting should make work easier without creating a second inventory process.
Kittix keeps kit preparation inside D365 Warehouse Management so the warehouse can continue using familiar controls while maintenance material is being picked, staged, handed off, and returned.
Parts do not stop being inventory simply because they have been prepared for a maintenance job.
Make cycle counting and work order kitting work together
Temporary maintenance staging can become a problem for inventory accuracy when parts move without a clear process. Kittix is designed so preparing material for maintenance does not require the warehouse to abandon the inventory controls it relies on everywhere else.
Parts waiting for a maintenance job remain identifiable instead of becoming an unexplained pile of inventory.
The warehouse can distinguish material still staged for the job from material that has already left with maintenance.
Unused material has a controlled path back into inventory rather than creating uncertainty during later counts.
Spend less time coordinating between maintenance and the storeroom
A surprising amount of work order preparation can become communication rather than actual work.
Kittix gives common questions a place in the D365 process instead of leaving employees to answer them through calls, messages, spreadsheets, and memory.
Adapt kitting to the warehouse network you already have
Kittix does not require every organization to operate its storerooms the same way. The kitting model can follow the way your warehouses and maintenance teams are already organized.
Keep preparation local
Organizations that want each warehouse to support its own maintenance work can keep kit preparation with the warehouse responsible for that material.
Use a central pickup point
Organizations that prefer one maintenance pickup area can bring material from participating warehouses together for maintenance.
Handle the situations that do not go according to plan
Maintenance plans change. Inventory can be short. A technician may need only part of what was prepared. Parts can remain unused after the job. Those situations should not break the kitting process.
Warehouse exception handling can stay part of the worker's normal D365 process.
Take only the material needed instead of forcing the entire assembled kit out of the warehouse.
Return material through a defined warehouse process rather than handling it outside normal inventory control.
What changes with Kittix Core
Maintenance checks purchasing documents to find out whether parts have arrived
A work order part may lead maintenance to manually initiate purchasing and repeatedly follow the requisition or purchase order.
Maintenance plans the need and watches kit readiness
D365 supply planning can respond when additional inventory is required, procurement handles the supply process, and maintenance follows the kit status.
Maintenance calls the warehouse to ask whether parts are ready
Readiness depends on phone calls, messages, or someone physically checking the staging area.
Maintenance can see how kit preparation is progressing
Kit eligibility and kit status provide visibility before and during warehouse preparation.
Staged maintenance material can become difficult to distinguish from other inventory
Parts waiting for a job may sit in temporary areas without enough context for the warehouse.
Assembled material remains identifiable while it waits for maintenance
The warehouse keeps a clear relationship between the staged material and the maintenance kit.
A technician may take the whole staged kit even when only some parts are needed
The warehouse loses flexibility once the kit is handed over as one all-or-nothing package.
The technician can take all assembled material or only what is needed
Material that is not needed can remain with the kit instead of leaving the warehouse unnecessarily.
Unused parts return and someone has to figure out what to do with them
Returned maintenance material can become another manual inventory problem.
Unused material has a defined return process
The warehouse can process returned material through a controlled path back into inventory.
Bring maintenance planning, supply, warehouse preparation, pickup, and returns into one connected process
Kittix Core helps each team focus on the part of the process they own while giving maintenance the visibility it needs to know when material is ready for the job.