Kitting & Assembly Services
When your products involve multiple components—like bundles, subscription boxes, or custom sets—efficient kitting and assembly become critical to fast, accurate fulfillment.
NextSmartShip helps you simplify these complex workflows by handling the sorting, packing, and preparation of your multi-item orders. This ensures consistency, saves time, and gets every order out the door ready to impress your customers.
Reduce Costs & Waste
Save Time & Improve Efficiency
Increase Inventory Turnover
Drive Repeat Purchases
Understanding Kitting and Assembly
While both kitting and assembly services can enhance your operational efficiency, they serve fundamentally different purposes. Both methods can optimize your fulfillment strategy.
Kitting combines pre-made components into ready-to-ship packages, typically done after orders are placed - perfect for custom bundles or subscription boxes.
Assembly transforms raw materials into finished products during pre-production, creating sellable inventory.
Key Benefits of Kitting Services
Reduce Costs & Waste
Only assemble products when ordered, minimizing storage needs and preventing overproduction.
Custom Product Sets
Optimize Inventory
Pair slower-moving products with popular items to improve sales while clearing stock
Repeat Purchases
Include free samples to organically introduce new products, drive upsells, and boost repeat purchases.
Our Unmatched Guarantees
Product Bundling
From subscription boxes to retail kits and promotional sets, we combine multiple SKUs into cohesive, ready-to-ship packages
Packaging & Inserts
B2B & B2C Fulfillment
Inventory Management
Why Choose NextSmartShip for Kitting & Assembly?
How It Works
Send Us Your Products
Ship components to our secure fulfillment
centers.
Define Your Kitting Process
We customize assembly per your specifications.
We Assemble & Ship
Your kits are packed, labeled, and dispatched efficiently.
Industries We Serve
E-commerce
Subscription Box
Health & Beauty
Promotional &
Corporate Gifting
Electronics
Fashion & Apparel
Toys
Beyond Kitting and Assembly
NextSmartShip offers a full suite of support services to simplify your operations and elevate your fulfillment experience
SKU Management
Merge multiple SKUs into a single kit SKU with support from advanced systems, organized warehousing, and skilled staff—ensuring fast and accurate fulfillment.
Inventory Management
Custom Packaging
Create custom packaging through our
network of trusted suppliers. We deliver high-quality results at competitive costs,
tailored to your needs.
Hear What Our Customers Say
We started with a crowdfunding campaign and grew fast but managing parts from different suppliers and warehouses around the world got really complicated. Our product is modular, that means lots of components, so getting everything in one place for kitting and packaging was a real challenge.
NextSmartShip made it easy, they receive all our parts at their China warehouse, handle the kitting, labeling, and packaging. It’s smooth, reliable, and exactly what we needed. I highly recommend them.
———— George McMullen
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How do I request kitting services?
To get started, you’ll need to create an account with NextSmartShip. Once set up, you’ll be assigned a dedicated account manager who will help you analyze your products, set up your kitting needs, and walk you through the fulfillment process.
2. How does kitting improve efficiency?
Kitting saves time by grouping all necessary components into one kit. This reduces the time spent locating individual items and speeds up both order processing and assembly.
3. What types of products can be kitted?
Nearly any product with multiple components can be kitted. Common examples include electronics, beauty sets, toys, subscription boxes, and DIY or hobby kits.
4. What’s the difference between kitting and bundling?
Kitting involves picking and packaging multiple components together in a specific configuration—sometimes with light assembly or labeling—before shipping. It’s a fulfillment process handled at the warehouse.
Bundling is the sales strategy of offering multiple products as a single deal under one SKU, with no special handling or prep required beyond picking the items.
In other words:
– Kitting = Prepping items as one package.
– Bundling = Selling items as one deal.
5. Can kitting help reduce shipping costs?
Yes. By consolidating multiple items into one package, kitting can reduce dimensional weight and overall shipping fees compared to sending products separately.
