Chapter 8

Cross-Docking Insights from a Third-Party Logistics Firm in Turkey

Gürdal Ertek

Contents

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Types of Cross-Docking

8.3 Appropriateness of Cross-Docking

8.4 Prerequisites of Cross-Docking

8.5 Industries Where Cross-Docking Is Applied

8.6 Benefits and Drawbacks of Cross-Docking

8.7 Implementation of Cross-Docking

8.8 Case Study: Ekol Lojistik

8.9 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

8.1 Introduction

In the book The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia, Wood (2002) remarkably suggests that “the very name of ...

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