By:
Maida Napolitano, Contributing Editor
Modern Materials Handling
Retailers continue to emerge as trailblazers when it comes to crossdocking. Just think about the type of distribution facilities that they've been building—more dynamic flow-through rather than static storage. And it's all based on retailing's basic premise: You can't make money until the product is sold at your stores.
And getting product rapidly to those stores is exactly what cross docking aims to execute to perfection. By dispatching inbound merchandise directly to outbound shipping, crossdocking minimizes the amount of time goods spend in non-value-added DCs and thus maximizes their speed to market.
Companies that crossdock not only eliminate wasted time moving product to and from storage, but they also cut down on capital-intensive inventory by shipping immediately to fulfill customer demands.
Some degree of automation is typically needed from both the software and the equipment perspective. Here are the latest developments, innovations, and breakthroughs that have made crossdocking easier and faster.
June 2010 
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