Cross-dock
Freight that comes in one door and leaves by another without being stored
6 articles
How to run a cross-dock
Two dock jobs merge into one: the inbound truck unloads, the goods go straight onto the outbound truck through a virtual location and a single handling fee is billed. The full path, what gets created, how it closes, how it is billed and what the customer sees.
Requirements to create a cross-dock
What must exist before creating a cross-dock, every field of the creation screen, how the receipt and shipment the jobs already had are adopted, the different-customer warnings and every message that can stop it from being created.
The worker in a cross-dock
What the worker does from My Work on a cross-dock: start, capture what comes off, record what goes onto the other truck, take photos of both legs and finish. What happens at each step and what can stop them from finishing.
Tracking and closing a cross-dock
The cross-dock list and each cross-dock’s screen: the seven steps, the inbound, pass-through and outbound cards, the timings and the tabs. How to confirm the receipt and close the shipment to finish it, and what to do when one gets stuck.
Cancel a cross-dock
How a cross-dock is cancelled (by cancelling its dock job), until when it can be done, what goes back automatically and what has to be tidied up by hand afterwards: documents, accessorials and the original jobs.
Cross-dock without receiving or shipping
How a cross-dock works when the warehouse only has docks and cross-dock, or lacks the receiving, shipping or inventory module: finishing the job closes it on its own, what gets recorded and what the limits are.