Warehousing - Cross Docking Services
Cross-docking is a practice in logistics of unloading materials from an incoming semi-trailer truck and loading these materials directly into outbound trucks, trailers with little or no storage in between. This may be done to sort material intended for different destinations or to combine material from different origins into tractor trailers with the same or similar destinations.
Advantages of Cross Docking Services
- Streamlines the supply chain, from point of origin to point of sale
- Reduces labor costs through less inventory handling
- Reduces inventory costs by reducing storage times
- Products reach the distributor, or the customer faster
- Reduces or eliminates warehousing costs
- May increase available retail sales space
- Less risk of inventory handling
