Cross Docking - Medzinárodná a vnútroštátna kamiónová preprava tovaru

Cross-docking is a practice in the logistics of unloading materials from an incoming semi-trailer truck or railroad car and loading these materials directly into outbound trucks, trailers, or rail cars, with little or no storage in between.

This may be done to change the type of conveyance, to sort material intended for different destinations, or to combine material from different origins into transport vehicles (or containers) with the same destination or similar destinations.

In the LTL trucking industry, cross-docking is done by moving cargo from one transport vehicle directly onto another, with minimal or no warehousing.

In retail practice, cross-docking operations may utilize staging areas where inbound materials are sorted, consolidated, and stored until the outbound shipment is complete and ready to ship.

Cross Docking – Tracking of inventory in transit

Advantages of retail cross-docking

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

Factors influencing the use of retail cross-docks

Cross-docking depends on continuous communication between suppliers, distribution centers, and all points of sale
Customer and supplier geography, particularly when a single corporate customer has many multiple branches or using points
Freight costs for the commodities being transported
Cost of inventory in transit
Complexity of loads
Handling methods
Logistics software integration between supplier(s), vendor, and shipper
Tracking of inventory in transit

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