The kitting number

The kitting number enables you to group all items together that belong to the same physical ‘kit’. The kitting number may be used by your procurement and assembly teams to understand where the physical components belong.

The kitting number is generated automatically by Upchain based on the structure of your items, their assigned item number, and their item type. This is only done for mechanical-type items.

The kitting number is in the form:

R <major revision of the item> _ <project number> ; item number of lowest level product structure above current item ; item number of immediate parent

Consider the image above. The kitting number for the Bike Seat item is RAA\_11272;000020361;000022560 where the 'R' stands for Revision; 'AA' is its major revision level; '11272' is the project number; '000020361' is the item number for the first product structure item you come across as you move up the tree (ie. the lowest level product structure); and '000022560' is its immediate parent's (Back Seat) item number.

When the immediate parent is the same as the lowest level product structure item, then only the middle number is displayed, since it would just be a repeat of the same number. In the example above, this is the case for the TANDEM BIKE 1 item.