With 10+ years experience, we pride ourselves on making the workflow of our customers businesses smooth, fast and easy. Our focus simple; to provide excellent customer experience.
We take pride in building individual partnerships with each of our customers, providing superior service and communication to ensure your success. Leveraging our cross docking warehouse services can help your business streamline your supply chain and reduce warehousing costs associated with storage. We can help with warehousing services such as cross docking, short-term storage and last-mile delivery.
Our cross docking warehouse is located centrally in Sydney, Australia. This allows us to make swift deliveries with key carrier partners, meaning your products reach their destination faster.
Contact us today to find out more about our cross dock solutions.
Cross docking is a term used for a cost saving logistics strategy where products are received from multiple vendors and consolidated at a central location, such as a cross docking warehouse, before being directly loaded onto outbound trucks for distribution.
This method aims to accelerate goods delivery and requires little or no storage, the ultimate goal being to get goods to their end destination faster and reducing warehousing costs. This method improves delivery speed, slashes expenses, and often eradicates the necessity for warehouse storage.
Companies that stock high volume products use cross docking to break down bulk shipments and consolidate into smaller lots for efficient delivery to retail stores, fulfillment centres and customers.
There are several types of cross docking solutions, each tailored to meet unique business requirements. A single company may use more than one type of cross docking, depending on the needs of the business, including:
Retailers can utilise cross docking to receive products from vendors to a central location at our Sydney based warehouse, before distributing the goods to their retail stores. In this instance, a large incoming load will be divided at our cross dock facility into multiple smaller shipments for delivery to individual retail stores. Our tech enabled warehouse management system will help you track and automate processes, so you have real time visibility on receiving and managing inventory and coordinating transport partners.
This type of cross docking takes place when products are produced at a manufacturer warehouse, then transported directly to our cross docking warehouse. The product then is shipped out for delivery, mitigating the need for storage. This involves a continuous flow of products through our facility. Products are unloaded from incoming trucks on to outbound containers, so they reach their destination as quickly as possible. Forward planning is crucial, to ensure delivery windows align with product drop dates.
In this scenario, products from multiple suppliers are consolidated at our cross docking facility, where they are combined into a single shipment and sent to the destination. This strategy can help to reduce shipping costs, since it costs less to ship one large load then multiple small items. In this method, goods are warehoused at our warehouse facility till there is a full truckload for outgoing shipment.
This type of cross docking occurs when a business decides to temporarily store products at our cross docking warehouse, typically to take advantage of a market situation or meet a customer need.
Here’s why Plan A Logistics is the preferred cross focking partner:
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Cross docking offers efficiency but entails risks. You must be highly organised and efficient with planning, investment and there is an ongoing sustained effort to set up and continue successful cross docking.
Reduced warehouse inventory increases vulnerability to supply chain disruptions, necessitating real-time inventory management tools for monitoring.
When planning a cross docking solution for your business, you must first be able to forecast demand, so you can prevent inventory shortages. To run a smooth supply chain, meticulous coordination and the ability to synchronising inbound goods delivery with outbound carrier availability is very important. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as MYOB can help you with your forecasting to ensure timely order fulfillment.
With the commercial needs of our population continuing to grow, businesses are challenged to find new ways to save time and money, and to get their products to consumers faster than ever before. Cross docking is a clever strategic solution that helps businesses to speed up product delivery times without compromising on accuracy or quality. Not only is it faster, it reduces warehouse storage costs and associated labour costs.
