Cross Docking
Cross-docking is the practice of unloading and loading materials with little or no storage time in a warehouse.
Cross-docking can save your company dollars and time by reducing;
- Handling costs
- Storage costs
- Transportation costs
If emergency situations arise, we pride ourselves in expediting your exception issues to your satisfaction. By providing flexible staffing, we can move quickly to complete your special needs on your timetable.
Distressed Loads
Everyday loads shift in transit and appointments are missed. Warehouse Basics is a key player in emergency situations for distressed services in the Southeast Region. Warehouse Basics can react with limited notice and under short time constraints. Examples of distressed services and special circumstances:
- Truckloads that require emergency re-working due to loading error or shifting
- Product that must be stored temporarily until a Customer is able to receive it
- Missed appointments that have to be rescheduled for a later date
- Shipments that require value-added services prior to delivery such as palletizing, banding or labeling
- Trailer damage that requires unloading product and loading product onto a new trailer
Cross-Docking your freight with Efficient Trucking & Warehousing is a great way to get a great deal on your freight shipping services. Call Efficient Trucking today to learn more about our Wisconsin freight cross docking services.
At Efficient Trucking and Warehousing our cross docking services will give you the BEST deal on all your shipping needs in Milwaukee, Illinois and across the Midwest. Call 414.535.7764 or 414.305.3075 to find out more.
Temporary Warehouse Storage - Multiple Delivery Locations
Cross-docking is an extension in transportation logistics of securing and unloading freight materials from air lines, semi trucks, freight line companies, cargo ships or rail cars. From this point smaller shipments destined for regional localities can either be stored temporarily with proper warehousing qualifications or delivered to a centralized delivery dock for will call pick-up service. These freight materials can also be rerouted for curb side delivery while also being prepared within packaging requirements for multiple delivery locations.
Cross-Docking Benefits - Cost Effective Supply Lines Operating Efficiently
Cross-docking can be beneficial to industries since it allows their supply lines to operate efficiently by reducing labor handling costs, faster dependable deliveries, reduces warehouse costs and can help industries better manage their inventory storage by delivering products to the marketplace or production line as needed.
Cross Docking
Crossdocking essentially eliminates the inventory-holding function of a warehouse while still allowing it to serve its consolidation and shipping functions
Crossdocking is a logistics technique used in the retail and trucking industries to rapidly consolidate shipments from disparate sources and realize economies of scale in outbound transportation. Crossdocking essentially eliminates the inventory-holding function of a warehouse while still allowing it to serve its consolidation and shipping functions. The idea is to transfer incoming shipments directly to outgoing trailers without storing them in between. Shipments typically spend less than 24 hours at the facility, sometimes less than an hour.
Here's how it works: in a traditional warehouse, goods are received from vendors and stored in devices like pallet racks or shelving. When a customer (e.g., the consumer or perhaps a retail outlet) requests an item, workers pick it from the shelves and send it to the destination. In a crossdock, goods arriving from the vendor already have a customer assigned, so workers need only move the shipment from the inbound trailer to an outbound trailer bound for the appropriate destination. The already part should make you think of information system requirements--a chief obstacle to implementing crossdocking successfully.