The benefits of a cross-docking delivery strategy: a supply chain collaboration approach

Kreng, Victor B.; Chen, Fang-Tzu

doi:10.1080/09537280801916157

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“…Through streamlining the flow between the suppliers and manufacturers, this strategy can help diminish inventory storage. Cross-docking deals with movement of goods directly from the receiving dock to the shipping dock, where the goods are stored in a cross-dock for a short time, usually less than 12 h, or just directly dispatched to the customers (Apte & Viswanathan, 2000;Kreng & Chen, 2008). The cross-docking strategy essentially eliminates the inventory holding function of a traditional warehouse while still allowing products to be classified and loaded to the delivery vehicles through a consolidation process (Wen, Larsen, Clausen, Cordeau, & Laporte, 2008).…”

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“…Gumus and Bookbinder (2004) used commercial software including LINDO and CPLEX to determine transportation policies in a logistic network and optimal locations of cross-docks. Recently, Kreng and Chen (2008) developed two models, a crossdocking model and a traditional warehousing model, to coordinate both production and distribution in order to reduce relevant costs in a supply chain.…”

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Vehicle routing with cross-docking in the supply chain

Liao

Lin

Shih

2010

Expert Systems with Applications

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Vehicle routing with cross-docking in the supply chain

Liao

Lin

Shih

2010

Expert Systems with Applications

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“…Studies regarding distribution centers and mechanism of distribution are not new in the area of supply chain (Kreng & Chen, 2008). Though selection of best strategy for distribution is always been a challenge & studies like (Ertek (2012) indicated that there are three major strategies for distribution i.e.…”

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“…traditional distribution with warehouses and direct shipment and cross-docking. Although Cross-Docking seems to be implemented successfully in many networks (Kreng & Chen, 2008), therefore awareness regarding strategy enhancement practices followed in Pakistan (Khan et al, 2017).…”

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Pure Cross-Docking as Strategy of Distribution for Courier Services: A Quantitative Study on Perceived Benefits Associated with Inventory Cost

Sultan¹

2019

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Cross-Docking is adopted by many companies not only to decrease cost of operations but also to increase level of customer satisfaction and optimize goodwill. Although implementation of the strategy is much complex specially in uncertain courtiers like Pakistan therefore majority of warehouses are opting this strategy in combination with limited warehousing in order to avoid the risk of stock out cost. Therefore there is minimal knowledge available regarding the use and benefits of the strategy. Although the strategy has been used across the world and with CPEC implementation Pakistan might also be included in the list of developed economies and companies coming from abroad require this strategy to work properly. Thus there is a need of study to identify benefits associated with the strategy of pure cross-docking but quantifying numerous benefits through single study is quire impossible. There this study focused specifically upon inventory holding cost as the benefit of cross-docking and after analysis it has been determined that the strategy would not bring impact on the inventory holding cost unless it is impaired with proper communication.

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“…Costs can be further reduced and network efficiency increased through the implementation of consolidation hubs and cross-docking techniques [8]. Cross-docking can be carried out with a no storage policy as consolidation and moving from unloading bay to loading bay become the key activities [9].…”

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Increasing competitiveness of third party logistics with RFID

Aggarwal

Lim

2011

2011 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications

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Competition in the 3PL market continues to intensify as providers compete to win and retain clients. 3PL providers are required to reduce costs while offering tailored innovative logistical solutions in order to remain competitive. 3PL providers can reduce costs through the consolidation of assets and introduction of cross-docking activities. Innovative logistical services can be tailored to each client via the introduction of real-time data updates. This paper highlights that RFID enabled RTE can assist in improvements of both these areas through increased network visibility. A framework is presented where the 3PL provider focuses on asset reduction, asset utilisation, real-time data employment and RTE cycle time reduction in order to enhance competitiveness.

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The benefits of a cross-docking delivery strategy: a supply chain collaboration approach

Cited by 34 publications

References 17 publications

Vehicle routing with cross-docking in the supply chain

Vehicle routing with cross-docking in the supply chain

Pure Cross-Docking as Strategy of Distribution for Courier Services: A Quantitative Study on Perceived Benefits Associated with Inventory Cost

Increasing competitiveness of third party logistics with RFID

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