Principles of Supply Chain Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

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Some received goods may not even be moved into storage but instead go through a pro-

cess called cross docking, to move it more quickly to the outgoing trucks for transport to the

stores. Cross docking is a process that transforms the goods from the form in which they

arrive at the receiving dock to the form to be loaded onto the shipping dock. For example,

the containers from the manufacturer may have a gross of small brown gloves in one con-

tainer, a gross of large brown gloves in a second container, a gross of small black gloves in

a third container, and large black gloves in a fourth container. During the cross docking

process, the gloves are reassembled into assortments of one dozen of each ty