SUPER CROSS-DOCK LOGISTICS SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A system and method is disclosed for ordering, receiving, staging, and delivering supplies to assembly line locations in an assembly plant. Cross-dock and staging functions are combined at one facility - a super cross-dock (110) - so that suppliers to a large-scale manufacturer with multiple assembly plants (100, 102, 104) may make deliveries of supplies to a single facility that services the multiple plants. Supplies from multiple suppliers are received at the super cross-dock and staged for distribution to the assembly plants that comprise a manufacturing operation (Fig. 2). Supply order requests are submitted from assembly plant computer systems (232) that consolidate the orders before submitting an order to a supplier. Orders are consolidated based on when supplies are required at the various assembly plants. A bar code labeling system (226) at the suppliers supports the super cross-dock inventory and distribution of supplies according to delivery time and assembly plant.