Platform Capabilities: Military Fixed-Wing: Services: Kitting
Simplifying maintenance and inspection activities begins with having the right parts necessary to complete a specific maintenance or inspection task. Derco offers extensive capabilities to design kits, meeting the requirements of inspection cards, TOs, OEM Service Bulletins, and other prescribed maintenance actions and assembling them to be delivered just-in-time for the scheduled activity. Maintainers no longer have to stop work due to a single missing or out-of-stock part; with kitting supported by Derco, maintenance and inspection is completed on time and aircraft are returned to the fleet without delay.  Utilizing Derco’s robust ERP system, Derco logisticians and material planners can create an unlimited number of bill of material configurations for maintenance, inspections or installation kits.

Derco’s extension Kit capabilities include:

•	PDM kits
•	Various structural kits
•	Rainbow fitting kits
•	Various component overhaul kits
•	Various modification kits
•	Scheduled maintenance (ISO) kits

Kitting operations are a core competency for Derco. Utilizing precise and sensitive forecasting tools and models, core kits are built and stocked for each LRU according to demand forecasts and customized to the repair facility or maintenance organization’s requirements. Derco’s expertise in kitting means reduction in procurement costs, vendor base, expediting expenses, resource requirements, material handling costs, and inventory holdings, all which reduce life cycle ownership costs and increase fleet availability.