kitting

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of kit.

   Staff spent the afternoon kitting climbers with ropes, harnesses, and helmets.

   Kitting out the field hospital required checking every box against the inventory list.

   Note

   The verb form carries two transitive meanings: assembling items into kits, and equipping someone with something. Both need an object, as in kitting parts into sets or kitting a crew with gear. As a gerund it is spelled exactly like the retail bundling noun, and the test is whether an object follows. The equipping meaning echoes the noun kit, a soldier's or workman's collection of gear.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The process of assembling or bundling related goods together for sale as a set, done to increase revenue.

   Like a value meal that combines a burger, fries, and a drink into a single offering.

   The company introduced kitting to combine its bestselling skincare items into gift sets.

   Warehouse managers credited kitting with a noticeable rise in average order value.

   Similarbundling

   Note

   In lean manufacturing, the bundling is judged by where it happens. Richard J. Schonberger's Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement (2007) calls kitting for in-plant handling unlean. Kitting for transport, such as shipping complete sets of parts to build a TV or motorcycle, he counts as lean. The phrase kitting for names the purpose, and in that field the purpose decides whether the practice counts as efficient.

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