What Is a Cross Dock Order

Cross-docking is a warehouse process where the inventory quantity that is required for an order is directed straight from receipt or creation to the correct outbound dock or staging area. All remaining inventory from the inbound source is directed to the correct storage location through the regular put-away process.

What is cross docking example?

The products that follow the First out or last in first out can use Cross-docking for their business. For example, the products like fresh foods (milk, fish and meat) are delivered first. The non-perishable items like biscuits, soaps, packaged products are delivered last.

Where is cross-docking used?

Cross docking takes place in a distribution docking terminal; usually consisting of trucks and dock doors on two (inbound and outbound) sides with minimal storage space. In the LTL trucking industry, cross-docking is done by moving cargo from one transport vehicle directly onto another, with minimal or no warehousing.