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Chapter 13 Across-the-Dock, Prepack, Value-Added, Noncustomer Bonded Storage/Pick, Adance Customer Orders, and Inentory Control Actiities Introduction This chapter looks at several activities that company management could consider for implementa- tion into a supply chain’s logistics strategy or in a warehouse operation. These strategies or activities are across-the-dock operation, prepack SKU activity, value-added activity, advance customer orders, noncustomer-order activity, bonded SKU activity, and inventory control. Each section below defines the activity and looks at what is required from a material handing design and WMS program. Across-the-Dock Operation An across-the-dock warehouse is a supply chain logistics strategy design that requires minimal SKU storage or customer-order pick activities. An across-the-dock warehouse moves individual customer orders or SKUs directly from a receiving dock, via a warehouse transport concept and sort area, and into an order shipping staging area or directly onto a delivery vehicle. In a manual across-the-dock design, there is a WMS identification on the exterior of each SKU. An employee scans/reads each identification and transfers the SKU to a staging area or delivery truck. Because a manual across-the-dock design is not conveyor supported to assure an efficient and cost effective operation, a SKU flow from a receiving area to a pack/ship area, scan, sort and unitize/direct load activities are well organized and occur in the proper sequence. In a mechanical across-the-dock 441 ? 2008 by Taylor Francis Group, LLC 442 n ?A Supply Chain Logistics Program for Warehouse Management warehouse, the preferred characteristics are a powered conveyor sort design, human-/machine- readable codes on the exteriors of SKUs surface which permits an employee to scan/read the delivery address , and computer-controlled divert devices on the sort travel path. In an across- the-dock operation, SKUs flow t