 | Cross-docking, the practice of immediately converting inbound deliveries to outbound shipments, has become popular among 3PLs and other distributors looking for significant financial and operational advantages. It reduces inventory costs by eliminating intermediate warehousing activity and improves delivery times by making shipments instantly available for delivery — without the delays incurred by transferring shipments to and from a warehouse. Unfortunately, traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology doesn’t offer the real-time visibility and accountability to optimize cross-docking efficiency, even with warehouse management modules supporting cross-docking installed. Organizations who want to achieve best-in-class performance in cross-docking will need to bridge the gap with an additional supplier technology solution that addresses four key operational priorities for cross-docking:
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