Manufacturers wishing to streamline operations and focus on core production competencies frequently turn to Chick for kitting and subassembly solutions. We provide kitting services for some of the largest, most respected manufacturers in the world.

Outsourcing these activities to Chick creates value in a variety of ways:

• Simplifying work flows and shortening production times;
• Eliminating time lost to parts collection;
• Freeing skilled (and expensive) workers for higher-value activities;
• Freeing factory floor space for core manufacturing activities;
• Reducing working capital by closely matching kitting and sub-assembly production to manufacturing work flows; and
• Reducing pilferage of expensive parts and materials.

Kitting involves the preparation of production systems or “kits” either to streamline a manufacturing process or to facilitate the final assembly of semi-knocked-down (SKD) products. Kitting can be as simple as combining a specified quantity of production parts into a container or as complex as organizing thousands of parts into a highly-ordered system for product assembly. At Chick our kitting solutions include both the “inbound” and “outbound” sides of the manufacturing process:

Inbound Kitting – Collecting, Organizing and Sequencing Goods
Flowing into ProductionKits can be used to make a customer’s factory floor operations more efficient and to sharply reduce raw materials storage requirements. By removing particular activities from a customer’s factory floor, Chick’s kitting services help customers to concentrate their highest-value production activities, optimizing return on factory-floor square footage.

Outbound – Marshalling, Sequencing and Packaging Semi-Finished Outbound Goods
Outbound kitting involves the preparation of products that are partially-completed and ready for final assembly at a third party manufacturer, generally via export. In addition to kitting SKD units, Chick can take a completely assembled product, disassemble it, pack into methodical reconstruction packs, including instructions or diagrams for reassembly, and ship it to its ultimate location for final assembly.

Chick can also provide sub-assembly solutions delivered on a just-in-time basis to your production line. These solutions can integrate seamlessly with your manufacturing and IT systems, taking the sourcing, purchasing, receiving and assembling of inbound products off your To Do List (and your working capital account).