Light the bin, confirm the pick, record the kit
Pull and order from your ERP, guide each pick with a light at the bin, confirm it by scan or by weight, and write a record of what actually went into the kit. Operators stop matching part numbers by eye.
A kit that's one part short usually gets discovered at the assembly station, where someone is now waiting on it, or after it ships and comes back as a return claim. The problem is discovered downstream, while the pick that caused it happened hours earlier at the bench.
In high-mix work the contents change by order, option, or customer, and the parts that go in often differ from each other by a character or two in a part number. The operator reads the list, finds the bin they think matches, and trusts their own eyes.
Kitting can take hours and sits directly in front of assembly, so time lost at the bench comes off your throughput. A completed pick list confirms the kit got built and tells you nothing about how long each part took to find.
A Tulip kitting app runs the pick sequence at the station, lighting the bin for each part and holding the operator at the step until the pick is confirmed. It pulls the order and the bill of materials from ERP so the kit is built against the right revision, and it records every pick as it happens.
Building the Kitting App
Build the pick sequence as a series of steps in Tulip, with the part image, the quantity, and the bin location on each one. Add logic with when-if-then triggers so a substitution, a shortage, or a failed check routes the operator somewhere sensible.
Pick-to-Light Guidance
The Tulip Light Kit drives eight channels of LED strip from an Edge device, so the app can light one bin at a time, light a group of bins for a multi-part pick, and change colour to signal a different action. Where a rack gets rearranged, the bin mapping is app configuration.
Pick Verification
Tulip checks that the operator picked the right part before letting them move on. Scan the part's barcode, weigh it on a connected scale, or use a camera to confirm the right bin was emptied. If the check fails, the app holds the operator on that step until it's put right.
Pull Directly From the BOM
Pull the work order and its bill of materials from ERP so the kit list is up-to-date and nobody is working from a printout. Tulip connects to SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Fusion Cloud, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Acumatica, with the connector extended to reach the endpoints your workflow needs.
Kit Records and Analysis
Each completed kit records who built it, at which station, on which app version, and how long every step took. The parts themselves land on the record as data you capture in the app. When a kit turns out wrong you can trace it to the pick, and across a shift you can see which part is slowest to find.
Customer stories
See how manufacturers guide each pick, verify the part, and keep incomplete kits from reaching assembly.
Laerdal assembles medical training devices from kits and was running the process on paper. It now error-proofs kit assembly with vision verification at the station, reporting zero defects or parts omitted across thousands of kits assembled, along with less time spent processing return claims.
Bring a kit list and see what the app looks like: the bin lit, the pick confirmed, and the record it leaves behind.