Kitting and assembly, done in-house
Bundling, subscription boxes, relabeling, and light assembly, run by the same team and on the same floor as your standard fulfillment, on one inventory record. If you can describe the project, we can probably run it.
For subscription brands, bundlers, and anyone whose product needs work before it ships.
Same building, same team, one inventory record
At a lot of 3PLs, kitting happens somewhere else. A separate department, a partner facility, a project queue that isn’t connected to your live inventory. You find out how the job went after the fact.
At Red Stag, kitting runs in the same building as parcel and pallet fulfillment, handled by our own employees on a floor we control. Components, work in progress, and finished kits all live on one inventory record inside a single WMS, so a build never turns into a stock mystery. That includes big and heavy products. If it’s in our building, it can go through kitting.
In-house, always.
The people building your kits work for Red Stag. Nothing gets trucked to a subcontractor and back.
One inventory record.
Components and finished kits are tracked in a single WMS we have direct control over. When a kit is built, your counts update with it.
Progress you can see.
Inbound receiving and kitting status show in your real-time dashboard, right next to orders and inventory.
What we run
“Kitting” is one word for a lot of different work. Here’s what ours covers.
Product bundling
Individual components assembled into a sellable bundle: gift sets, starter kits, promotional packs.
Product nesting
Items packed within or around each other. Tighter cartons that can reduce dimensional weight charges.
Subscription box assembly
Recurring boxes built to your release calendar, scaled to your subscriber count.
Light assembly
Components put together into ready-to-use products. No factory setup required.
Relabeling & compliance prep
Custom labels, barcodes, stickers, and ticket placement to retailer and marketplace spec. FBA prep runs through this same lane.
Repackaging & reboxing
Inbound product reworked into ship-ready cases.
Inbound QA & inspection
Completeness and quality checks on components when they arrive, before a build depends on them.
De-kitting
Kits broken back down into their components and returned to stock as individual units.
Don’t see your project?
Display and point-of-sale assembly, event kits, limited promotional runs, the odd request that doesn’t fit a category. Ask. We can run almost anything that happens inside a warehouse.
How it’s billed
Fixed per-unit pricing where the work is consistent. Hourly where it isn’t. Before a program starts, we walk you through the categories of work in your project and what each one costs, so nothing on the invoice is a surprise.
One-time project or ongoing program, either works. The same operation also absorbs the asks that come up later: a promo run, a relabel job, a rework that doesn’t fit a category.
Two questions to ask any 3PL about kitting
Kitting rarely gets more than two minutes on a sales slide, and almost every 3PL will say yes to it. The word covers bundling, subscription boxes, labeling compliance, repackaging, inspection, and de-kitting, so a flat “yes, we do that” hides a lot. The shop that treats kitting as a checkbox answers every question the same way and figures your project out on the floor. The work gets done, just poorly, and the cost lands later, in a chargeback for a labeling miss or stock counts that stopped matching reality.
So ask two questions.
Do they run kitting in-house?
On their own floor, with their own people, or does the job ship out to a partner you’ll never meet?
Is it a core competence or a checkbox?
A real kitting operation can name the categories it has actually run, tell you what each one costs, and show you what the inventory record looks like in the middle of a build.
Ask us both.
Frequently asked questions
Do you handle one-time projects or only ongoing programs?
Both. A single launch run, an event kit, a rework project, or a subscription program that builds every month. The same team runs all of it, and the follow-up asks that come later go through the same operation.
Can you handle seasonal spikes and surge volume?
Yes. Kitting shares its floor and team with the rest of our fulfillment operation, which is built around seasonal volume. Tell us the calendar and we’ll plan the build around it.
What about subscription boxes where the contents change every month?
That’s normal subscription work, not an exception. We build each cycle to your release calendar with that month’s components.
Is FBA prep part of kitting?
Yes. FBA prep runs through the same relabeling and compliance lane we use for retailer prep. If Amazon is a bigger part of your operation, ask us about our Amazon services.
What happens if a component arrives short or damaged?
Inbound QA catches it at receiving. Components get completeness and quality checks when they arrive, so you hear about a problem before the build starts, not after orders fail.
Can you break kits back down?
Yes. De-kitting takes kits apart and returns the components to stock as individual units, which is how you recover value from overstock or a bundle that didn’t sell.
Tell us about the project
Tell us what’s in the kit, how often it runs, and where it ships. You’ll get a straight answer on whether we’re a fit and what it would cost. Not every project is, and we’ll tell you that too.
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