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What is cross docking and is it for me? Reduce your wa ouse needs while increasing stock  Operations (/blog/business-hacks-1/tag/19)   Samuel Cabodi (sca) March 10, 2015  Tweet 23 Like 8 Share 145 16 A few weeks ago, I talked about drop-ship in another blog ( it-250), an alternative ship method that allows you to avoid excess stock and speed-up deliveries. Now, heres another approach thats sure to interest you if you have a high volume of items that needing dispatching, but want your wa ouse to be as small as possible. Its called cross docking and is a bit more complicated than drop-ship . You need to have a wa ouse for cross docking, but its not really used as a storage space. Instead, items that come from different rs are placed in a docking station. In the docking area, they are sorted and put together in a single shipment package for each destination. Then, the shipments are loaded onto trucks and vans and shipped to their final destination. The whole process should normally take no more than a day, so that your stock i ually always at the point of sale and your wa ouse serves as a sorting area rather than storage space. Cross docking seamlessly integrates within our Wa ouse Management System as a standard function. Although your needs may be specific, here are a few tips that will make your life easier when setting up your cross docking rules. Organizing your docking area First of all, its very important that you organize your dock floor. Define areas where items can be stored (temporarily - as there should be a fast turnaround). Designate other areas that