Cross Docking
Executive Summary
Supply chain is the basic ingredient in determining how the firm can maximize their profits in the local market, with respect to local responsiveness, and how the firm can achieve a balance functioning in the global market that includes the global product delivery strategies, the product customization and the creating product demand. Cross docking is an important aspect of supply chain that is one of the major contributors of managing the supply chain successfully. Cross docking is basically defined as the process of the product delivery from the manufacturing plant to the consumer with minimizing the costs and procedures of handling the product and storing it temporarily. Cross docking primarily joins various reduced product loads into single criteria ready to be delivered to various destinations in appropriate way that is efficient and effective. Forming good relationship with the suppliers is very important in cross docking. Cross docking has a lot of implication that helps firm to gain global competitive advantage as the warehousing cost is reduced that implies that the firm is eliminating a stage in the value chain process. So tactics like Just in Time and cross docking are very dominant practices for companies to take advantage of the low cost assembly.
Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 3 2 BACKGROUND 3 3 SIGNIFICANCE OF CROSS DOCKING 6 3.1 Advantages: 7 3.2 Disadvantages: 8 4 IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 9 5 CONCLUSION 10 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11
CROSS DOCKING IN SUPPLY CHAIN
INTRODUCTION
Globalization is affecting each and every industry in the way it conducts business activities, organize their operational procedures and manage their human resources for the company in the local market and how to move to international markets with the appropriate corporate and business strategies to get the global recognition. Innovativeness is the basic criteria which the global firm focuses on with respect to the management
Supply chain is the basic ingredient in determining how the firm can maximize their profits in the local market, with respect to local responsiveness, and how the firm can achieve a balance functioning in the global market that includes the global product delivery strategies, the product customization and the creating product demand. Cross docking is an important aspect of supply chain that is one of the major contributors of managing the supply chain successfully. Cross docking is basically defined as the process of the product delivery from the manufacturing plant to the consumer with minimizing the costs and procedures of handling the product and storing it temporarily. Cross docking primarily joins various reduced product loads into single criteria ready to be delivered to various destinations in appropriate way that is efficient and effective. Forming good relationship with the suppliers is very important in cross docking. Cross docking has a lot of implication that helps firm to gain global competitive advantage as the warehousing cost is reduced that implies that the firm is eliminating a stage in the value chain process. So tactics like Just in Time and cross docking are very dominant practices for companies to take advantage of the low cost assembly.
Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 3 2 BACKGROUND 3 3 SIGNIFICANCE OF CROSS DOCKING 6 3.1 Advantages: 7 3.2 Disadvantages: 8 4 IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 9 5 CONCLUSION 10 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11
CROSS DOCKING IN SUPPLY CHAIN
INTRODUCTION
Globalization is affecting each and every industry in the way it conducts business activities, organize their operational procedures and manage their human resources for the company in the local market and how to move to international markets with the appropriate corporate and business strategies to get the global recognition. Innovativeness is the basic criteria which the global firm focuses on with respect to the management
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