The Difference Between Cross-Docking & Traditional Warehousing
If you are in need of optimizing your product distribution and fulfilment services, you might want to employ a company that offers cross-docking services. There are numerous advantages to cross-docking that will help you save a lot of money, simplify shipping relationships and avoid the risk of damaged products.
The aim of any shipping process is to deliver a product from your business to a customer with no damage and minimal cost and time as possible. Traditional warehousing and shipping processes need a distributor with stock on hand to deliver to customers. But cross-docking is unloading of products directly from incoming onto outbound trucks with a short period of storage between. A professional third-party logistics team will have cross-docking services in order to benefit your business and advance the shipping process while still providing warehousing when needed.
What are the benefits of Cross-Docking services?
There are plenty benefits cross-docking can offer over warehousing processes. Some include simpler shipping relationships, reduced costs, no risk of the damaged product, saved time and much more.
Reduced Cost: Any time you store inventory at your warehouse, you are renting that space. Storage for extended periods of time can build up to an unpleasant cost. Aside from when this is necessary, these costs can be avoided by shipping products directly from the order location straight to the destination.
Enhanced Efficiency: Traditional warehousing may involve several parties, from the trucking to the parcel delivery systems. However, cross-docking eliminates all the parties by allowing only one 3PL team to handle the warehousing and advanced shipping.
No Risk of Damaged Products: Despite the increased speed, cross-docking reduces the risk of damage to your products. The risk is always increased once humans are involved and this process reduces at least two steps where human error is possible: moving the goods into and out of the storage unit. Because cross-docking moves products from trucks coming in directory on to trucks going out, it requires the least amount of hands to get the job done.
In need of cross-docking services? Bridgewater Logistics offers cross docking services and dedicated distribution solutions that increase delivery speed and reduce costs to a minimum. Visit our website for more information today!
