Which of the following is strongly associated with “cross-docking”?

Processing items as soon as they are received into a distribution center

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• Streamlines the supply chain, from point of origin to point of sale
• Reduces labor costs through less inventory handling
• Reduces inventory holding costs by reducing storage times and potentially eliminating the need to retain safety stock
• Products reach the distributor, and consequently the customer, faster
• Reduces or eliminates warehousing costs
• May increase available retail sales space
• Less risk of inventory handling

It should be

Processing items as soon as they are received into a distribution center.

In-short Product received from Inbound is kept in overflow area of warehouse. Product are scanned and then reloaded in outbound container or truck with no storage Inbetween.

Hi,

First you need to define the X-Docking type as we have the following:

Full pallet load operation

Case load order makeup

Hybrid X-docking

Opportunistic X-docking

Some factors that must take in consideration in order to simplify the X-Docking operations:

Using ASN “Advance shipment notification” it is a notification that we will have shipment that needs to be shipped using X-docking in advance

Using dock scheduling in transportation planning which will let you to define the pickup date and time in advance before calling of truckers and this should eliminate huge chain of communications between drivers and the WH operations

Of course both of above factors needs to be accurate and we need full collaboration with our suppliers

That will help you to answer the following questions:

Ø  When should a vehicle arrive in the cross dock?

Ø  Which dock should a container allocated to?

I think cross-docking is a process and idea to operate fast moving or urgent shipment in warehouse/store. Cross dock is process of receive and right away pick as per customer request qty ( pick list/GTN) meaning items are store for temporary location. From inbound to outbound no storing for long time.

Hello Team,

Cross docking is a logistics technique used in the retail and trucking industries to rapidly consolidate shipments from disparate sources and realize economies of scale in outbound transportation.

Cross docking essentially eliminates the inventory-holding function of a warehouse while still allowing it to serve its consolidation and shipping functions. The idea is to transfer incoming shipments directly to outgoing trailers without storing them in-between. Shipments typically spend less than 24 hours at the facility, sometimes less than an hour.

Here's how it works: in a traditional warehouse, goods are received from vendors and stored in devices like pallet racks or shelving. When a customer (e.g., the consumer or perhaps a retail outlet) requests an item, workers pick it from the shelves and send it to the destination. In a crossdock, goods arriving from the vendor already have a customer assigned, so workers need only move the shipment from the inbound trailer to an outbound trailer bound for the appropriate destination. The already part should make you think of information system requirements - a chief obstacle to implementing crossdocking successfully.

Pre- and Post-Distribution

One way to classify crossdocking operations is according to when the customer is assigned to an individual pallet or product. In pre-distribution crossdocking, the customer is assigned before the shipment leaves the vendor, so it arrives to the crossdock bagged and tagged for transfer. In post-distribution crossdocking, the crossdock itself allocates material to its stores. For example, a crossdock at a Wal-Mart might receive 20 pallets of Tide detergent without labels for individual stores. Workers at the crossdock allocate 3 pallets to Store 23, 5 pallets to Store 14, and so on.

Pre-distribution is definitely more difficult to implement because the vendors of the crossdock must know which customers of the crossdock need what before they send the shipment. This involves quite a bit of information transfer, system integration, and coordination. For a distributor with hundreds of vendors, the problem is very big!

Regards,

Saiyid

The strongly associated with the cross docking is Processing items as soon as they are received into a distribution center .

will go with option 1 and 3 

Thanks for invitation

I am apologies to answer this question because it's not my specialist field