Managed Purchasing, Warehousing, and Kitting

A crew of five or six people was spending more time finding parts than packing them.

The bus component inventory was spread across three external storage sites. Every kit meant locating the right material before the packing work could even begin.

Filly Fabricating started with a full audit of the incoming material. Then we built a mobile racking and cataloging system and brought everything onto one site.

Consolidating the inventory solved one problem. A much smaller change addressed another.

Kits had been packed the way the parts were catalogued. We started packing them the way the assemblers needed them on the line.

Same components. Same kit. Different sequences inside the box.

The technician opens the kit, and the first thing they need is the first thing they reach.

The kitting crew went from five or six people down to two, a labor reduction of more than half. Consolidating the inventory and organizing both the warehouse and the kits around the way the work was actually performed eliminated much of the searching and handling.

External storage was eliminated. Both teams could see stock levels in the same tracking system, so there was shared visibility into what was on hand.

Kits shipped from Filly’s facility directly to the project site, where the customer’s technicians installed the components.

The program went beyond packing kits. Filly also managed staged materials, warehousing, kitting, production support, and project-site delivery.

If your parts are sitting in more places than they should be, or your kitting crew is spending more time locating and staging material than packing it, that is a problem worth looking at.

If your team is spending too much time locating, staging, or sorting components before the work can begin, show us how the material moves today.

Filly can look at the warehousing, kitting, staging, and delivery process together rather than treating each as a separate problem.

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