Post Expo London 2008 V2

Courier & Parcel Logistics Conference Post Expo London Excel, Sept 29th- Oct 2nd 2008

Cross Docking Centres: The Black Hole

Sébastien Leichtnam Business Development Manager Crawford Group

Organisation / Project 2

Crawford offers expertise to solve Flow and Facility Management issues at Logistics facilities

About Crawford :


About Crawford :

Our roots are in the Door and Docking equipment business.

To support our customers we have developed an extensive service organisation.


Supply Chain Performance :

Superior performance is attainable when a company can integrate the Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, and Return processes of its supply chain operations.

Source: PMG Benchmarking: Supply chain performance indicator


The Integration

Process managed


So what?

• The flow of goods is managed.• The flow of trucks is managed.

But the coordination between these two is poor!


Source: Agility

Impact on the supply chain infrastructure

We see the following having considerable cost impact

• DC and Transport and Distribution process alignment• Waiting times 88% Longer then 60 minutes

52% Between 60-90 minutes 36% Over 120 minutes

• Destination / Flow focussed preparation• Resource utilization

• Daylight or (low congested) night time operations• Idle time management• Industrialization


44 Major Warehouse Management Systems have been reviewed:

Support dock management 55%

Knows the content of the trucks arriving 59%

Is able to lock time of arrival 52%

Is able to lock time of departure 64%

Source: Frauenhofer IML

All of them have undoubted value but in isolation only.None of them provide a fully integrated approach.


44 Major WMS reviewed:

The same situation exists in the assignment of dock and doors

Manually 75%

Consider driving distance in warehouse 25%

Automatically by agreed time 23%

Consider delivery of urgently needed goods 14%

Source: Frauenhofer IML


Source DHL/ Andrew Kings RFID at DHL

The DHL set up:


The DHL Sweden set up:

Real time input bay activityReal time input truck activity


Warehouse manager & transport planners have full visibility.


The Schenker Sweden set up:

Schenker integrated the system into their Facility Managment Software


Data is now available to transport planner & maintenance managers


How do we see the Future ?


Card Reader

Truck with ID card

Antenna

Gate / Card System

Gate

Input: Truck in position/ Not in positionDoor Open / ClosedShelter On / OffUsage / Error Signal

Truck with Radio Identification

Input: Identify the truckGives Estimated Time of Arrival ( ETA)

System

User Terminals

Input: Identify the truck arrivalGives Time Arrival ( TA)

Door Door

Gate screenInfo:Load house nr: …Go to ParkingContact Transport Leader

Control Box

Dock Leveller

Shelter

ID PanelDock Terminal Info:Incoming TrucksProgrammed time of Arrival ( PTA)Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA)Time of Arrival ( TA)Outgoing truck:Planed time of processingDestination

User TerminalsInfo:Incoming TrucksPTA,ETA, TAOutgoing truck:Planed time of processingDestination Manual Input

The Future:


The Future:


Programmed transportTime line

Docking stations

Planned loadingDelayed trucks


The Future:


By concentrating on the root cause of the issues we can design, in Partnership with the Users, solutions that will improve not only visibility and effiency on cross docking operations but also work quality of the planner and shopfloor personnel.


Thank you!

For more information do not hesitate to contact me:

Sebastien LeichtnamBusiness Development ManagerCrawford [email protected]+46 705 80 12 40

mailto:[email protected]

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