PowerHouse/WMS has full featured kitting and production modules that facilitate assembly and manufacturing. Kitting and production processes feature pedigree lot and serial number tracking, component visibility, the ability to explode kits to their original components and much more.

To support kitting and production, PowerHouse has multi-level Bill of Material (BOM) structures through which subcomponents can be configured for any item, kit or manufacturing requirement.

Kit and Production runs can be user configured as projects to build inventory in anticipation of a fulfillment requirement or runs can be automatically generated as the result of a customer order or work order.

When an order is placed for a kitted item, PowerHouse/WMS searches available inventory for assembled kits. In the event there is not sufficient kitted inventory to fulfill an order, PowerHouse automatically creates a kit run for the required quantity.

Production runs utilize work order processing that also use BOM information and includes process steps with instructions that can be assigned to specific work cells.

Kit and Production runs create system directed material moves to bring components to the assembly staging areas. Once components have been staged, new items are produced and components parts are decremented from inventory.

The Production module is similar to kitting but offers greater flexibility and features; back flushing of components upon receipt of finished goods, tracking of scrap or miss-hits and other valuable metrics to expose production results.