High Velocity Cross-docking

Cross-docking means managing high volume, high velocity and highly variable freight flow on a warehouse dock to synchronize inbound material movement with outbound deliveries.  In other words, once a shipper’s orders are cut to the suppliers, the merchandise can’t be held up along the way. A just in time shipper requires a high velocity cross-dock program like MEGAs that only pauses freight flow as long as it takes to receive, consolidate and ship.  The MEGA cross-dock helps companies achieve logistics goals such as safety stock depletion, reducing warehouse labor/ touches and materials management costs, shortening lead times from make to sell, creating pooled/ consolidated shipment opportunities, and the ultimate elimination of expensive storage and carrying costs.  Cross-Docking is considered a lean distribution model that requires a flexible and dynamic transportation partner like MEGA that can accommodate large swings in cargo volumes.  The cross-dock challenge is like trying to get a basketball (large volumes of freight) to fit through the garden hose (transportation variability) on any given day.”