A truck pulls up to the inbound dock, the pallets are sorted, and by end of day they are already loaded onto an outbound vehicle—without ever touching a storage rack.
Source: https://www.inboundlogistics.com/articles/expedited-cross-docking-the-fast-track-to-fulfilled-orders/
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