英語(yǔ)翻譯
Cross-docking
Crossdocks are high speed warehouses.
If an arriving item has already been requested by a customer,there is no need to store it as anticipation inventory; instead,the item can move directly from receiving to shipping,without intermediate storage and retrieval.Thus the item can move much more quickly through the facility and the most costly part of warehouse labor can be avoided.
In a high-volume crossdock the turnover times may be measured in hours.To support this velocity of movement,a crossdock may be nothing more than a slab of concrete with a roof and walls punctuated with doors for trailers.Freight is pulled off arriving trailers,sorted and loaded onto departing trailers without intermediate storage.
There is little or no storage provided in a crossdock because items do not stay long enough; but there is generally a lot of material-handling equipment,such as forklifts and pallet jacks,to move freight.Labor is frequently the main cost and it is devoted to unloading incoming trailers,moving the freight to the appropriate outgoing trailers,and loading.Consequently,the issues within a crossdock are those of material-handling and product flow rather than location and retrieval.