Key points
- CKD (completely knocked down) and SKD (semi knocked down) are the common forms of disassembly for complete machine exports.
- KD packing requires a disassembly list and packing plan per model, mapped to case numbers so that goods can be checked and assembled at destination.
- Packing lists, invoices and customs declarations must stay consistent and traceable between the complete-machine view and the parts view.
In practice
Exporters of construction machinery, agricultural machinery, commercial vehicles and complete plant often ship in KD form. The difficulty is converting between levels of detail: sales contracts are per unit, production completes whole machines, KD packing works by component and case number, and customs may be declared as complete machines or as parts. Without unified data, it is hard at destination to work out which parts of which machine are in which case.
A better approach is to keep three levels – machine, container and case – together in the shipment dataset, and to issue documents per shipment, per container or per unit as each project requires. KD packing plans and results are written back, so exceptions such as missing parts or wrong cases can be traced to a specific machine and case number.
How Tranexio supports it
Tranexio’s machinery and equipment export solution builds KD packing into delivery execution, linked to machine configuration, shipment data and packing lists, and enabled per project. See Logistics and documents.