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The Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies and the Tracking of Supply Chain Assets
Published in Erick C. Jones, Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics Handbook, 2020
RFID technology eliminates the need to physically check the bill of lading and/or the packing slip during the receiving process in a warehouse. This represents a significant labor reduction and inventory accuracy improvement in most operations. RFID can alert most WMSs to indicate if a product needs a cross-dock movement. Cross-docking is the process in which product received can be identified as an immediate need to fulfill an order and is immediately loaded into outbound trailers to fulfill the order. This cross-docking process reduces the labor and time to store, replenish, pick, pack, and ship a product. The system requirement consists of a WMS interfacing with an OMS to determine if this product is needed so that a task can be created to ship the product “across the dock” to the outbound dock so the order can be completed and placed on the waiting vehicle. RFID makes the identification of these types of immediate need orders easy and possible more reliably than traditional barcode scanning.
Retail Supply Chain Integration
Published in Donald Waters, Global Logistics and Distribution Planning, 2018
Although all the activities for cross-docking take place within the distribution centre, successful implementation requires good co-operation with the relevant suppliers. Cross-docking is usually cost-effective for bulky and fast-selling products, which are being received and despatched almost daily. Other bulky goods, which are delivered less frequently in large batches, could be candidates for cross-docking if they are being despatched daily in significant quantities – in this case the extra transport costs that may be incurred by more frequent and smaller deliveries from the supplier could be outweighed by eliminating put-away and picking for these products.
Application of RFID in fashion logistics
Published in Rajkishore Nayak, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology and Application in Fashion and Textile Supply Chain, 2019
In logistics, cross-docking is the practice of unloading incoming consignments from an incoming trailer, truck or railroad container and reloading them directly into the outbound trailers, trucks or rail cars, with little or no storage in between (Chow et al., 2006). 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 or similar destinations. Cross-docking is an important part in the fashion logistics, as it saves time, reduces the amount of material handling and consumers receive the product on time.
Design and analysis of AGV-based cross-docking operations using analytical models
Published in Production & Manufacturing Research, 2022
The Material Handling Industry of America defines cross-docking as ‘the process of moving merchandise from the receiving dock to shipping dock for shipping without placing it first into storage locations’ (Van Belle et al., 2012). With the rapid rise of electronic retailing, the main focus has moved from holding stock to delivering an item rapidly. Therefore, cross-docking is becoming an important distribution strategy to deliver incoming packages directly to outgoing trailers with minimal storage in between. Cross-docking can reduce inventory-holding costs, decrease lead-times, and consolidate shipments. Cross-docking needs close synchronization between in-bound receiving and out-bound shipping operations and has been extensively studied in recent years. Some of these challenges can be addressed by employing flexible automation and mobile robotics in cross-docking which will enable intelligent, dynamic, routing to adapt to changing workload (Fragapane et al., 2021).
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Cross Docking: A Systematic Literature Review
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2022
Amna Altaf, Adnen El Amraoui, Francois Delmotte, Christophe Lecoutre
Supply Chain (SC) is a setup of interlinked businesses involved in the manufacturing, selling, purchasing and delivery of products or services to the consumers.1–3 The technological advancement in the areas of communication systems, information storage and data processing can particularly play a vital role in the progression of the supply chain domain.4,5 One such approach used for the efficient and effective execution of SC cycle is cross docking. Cross-docking is a concept of handling inventory and its distribution in such a way that material is moved directly from receiving to shipment vehicle.6 This essentially reduces the time and cost by eliminating the need of storage, order picking and excessive handling activities as the number of inbound and outbound trucks are reduced and sustainability is enhanced.7,8 With the advent of innovation in distribution methods, more and more companies are adopting the cross-docking techniques for streamlining their distribution functions by improving the timely deliveries of materials.9–11 The success story reference for the implementation of cross-docking system includes: Wal-mart’s Supply-chain network,12 Toyota automobile final assembly lines 13 and postal service industry.14
The multi-product vehicle routing problem with cross-docking: a novel strategy hybrid bat algorithm for Industry 3.5 in Thailand's food industry
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2022
Kongkidakhon Worasan, Kanchana Sethanan, Karn Moonsri, Paulina Golinska-Dawson
In a traditional supply chain management, transporting products from suppliers to customers requires warehousing for storage (Seyedi, Hamedi, and Tavakkoli-Moghadaam 2021). Products are then packed and shipped to customers (Motaghedi-Larijani and Aminnayeri 2017), according to customer demand (Gelareh et al. 2020). However, this type of supply chain management creates high inventory costs and staff costs (Xi et al. 2020). Recently, cross-docking is adopted as a crucial logistics strategy in the supply chain management for distributing products to customers. Its concept is to eliminate the storage and order picking functions in the warehouse due to direct transhipment, while still allowing it to serve its receiving and shipping function. Therefore, cross-docking has been a potential logistic technique increasingly used to reduce the inventory cost, order picking cost, transportation cost, and the time that products spend in the supply chain. Cross-docking facilitates the sustainable supply chain management by minimising the number of inbound and outbound trucks by reduction of unnecessary or empty trips (Dulebenets 2018), thus reducing the transportation costs and carbon footprint of a supply chain (Kiani Mavi et al. 2020; Mrabti, Hamani, and Delahoche 2021; Dulebenets 2018; Rüdiger, Schön, and Dobers 2016). More importantly, it also ensures timely transportation and better coordination between supply and demand (Dondo and Cerdá 2015). It is especially appropriate for fresh product distribution with a short shelf-life.