1. Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
  2. Kit Items for Transfer Orders

Kit Items for Transfer Orders

A kit item is an item with fixed components that displays the item structure and doesn’t have options and classes. The kit item itself is a list of standard, nonconfigurable, nonselectable items that are consistently combined and shipped. The top level is the kit item, and it contains a primary item structure type.

With kit items, you can request pick-to-order kits on a transfer order instead of requesting each component individually. After defining the kit parent item and associating the component structure in Oracle Product Hub, you use the kit parent item name when requesting the transfer order. Upon creation, Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management automatically explodes the kit components onto the transfer order so that picking, shipping, and receiving still occur at the component level.

When the transfer order for the kit item is created, it can be viewed in Oracle Inventory Management on the Manage Transfer Order page. From there, you can review and edit the kit item transfer order. The kit components are shippable items displayed in shipping as individual shipment lines. The shipment lines are automatically grouped into a shipment set at transfer order creation to ensure all items in the kit ship together. Kit items can be entered on both inventory and expense destination transfer orders.

It’s common for companies to group several items that frequently ship together into a single kit item for order efficiency purposes. That way the order can be placed for a single item that represents multiple items being shipped.

Important Notes

  • You can create a transfer order for a kit item using the Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration supply request, REST resource, or file-based data import (FBDI). This doesn’t apply to kit items on transfer orders routed through Oracle Order Management.
  • When defining the kit item from the Product Information Management work area, you must set the Internally Transferable and Transfer Orders Enabled attributes to Yes.
  • A kit item can be pick-to-order or prebuilt. For example, kit components can be kept in separate locations, picked individually, and then packed together to fulfill an order.
  • You can’t cancel a kit component if it’s backordered.
  • Supply lines in Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration aren’t updated when transfer order lines are updated.
  • Multiple distributions are supported by Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration from Self Service Procurement and interfaced to Inventory Management. Multiple distributions aren’t supported for expense and inventory destination transfers using the Supply Chain Orchestration REST resource. This is because the REST resource doesn’t capture distribution percent and distribution quantity as part of the REST payload.

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