• Inventory Management
• High resolution
• Granular Web visibility
• Product reconfiguration
• Labeling, assembly, kitting
• JIT
• TransModal Services
• Knock down/ Build up

• Crossdock operation in North San Antonio
• Allows LTL shipments to be aggregated into truckload
• MexCarrier handles freight from/to Mexico
• Exporters to Mexico can lower their overall cost and increase their competitiveness
• Importers take advantage of lower ‘backhaul’ freight rates using XXchange  alliance partners
• US carriers land southbound freight at the XXchange and grab northbound loads
• Saves US Carriers  AND THEIR CUSOMERS time and money
• HOS rules equate to almost one day of service
• Helps alleviate driver shortage north of the border through higher utilization
• Collaborate versus Compete under NAFTA

The term ‘crossdock’ refers to the physical transference of product from an inbound vehicle across a distribution center floor for near term loading on an outbound vehicle. A typical trucking terminal is configured with doors on opposite sides of a long, thin terminal, thus the origin of the term. 

But in today’s ‘thin’ inventory management environment, it can also mean rapid fulfillment of product just arrived to support JIT environments, or critical resupply.  An excellent real world example of this can be observed in the airline industry using a hub and spoke pattern. Multiple flights arrive in a set time period, with a percentage of passengers de-planing and re-boarding and a burst of departure activity.  While the airlines work with people, not freight, the concept is the same.

Complexity can be driven into a pure crossdock model when time compression is introduced to a model.  Many inbound loads consist of a mixture of product for storage and product to crossdock to outbound channels.  Whether for time sensitive distribution, or to fulfill backorders, a crossdock capability is an essential element of the supply chain of today.

An aggregation model exists when many inbound trucks converge upon a depot and the pallets or loads are cross-docked onto a single truck or channel of outbound flow. The Performance for aggregating LTL shipments headed to Mexico onto truckload quantities is an excellent example.  With this model, multiple truck trips and border encounters are eliminated by virtue of physically transferring these LTL loads onto out partner’s vehicle for delivery into Mexico.

Our locations provide access for railcar, sea container, air container and tractor/trailer handling.  Because product is typically shipped in the most economical quantities for transport, and rarely consumed in this same quantity, it is necessary to posses the capability to transfer/unload/reconfigure for ultimate outbound sale.  An example is a sea container holding 480 lawn mowers floor loaded. They are sold in pallets of 10 so the container must be unloaded with 48 pallets of 10 each created at our operations center. These pallets are configured to customer specification (shrink wrap, labeling, slip sheeted) for outbound processing. They can then be processed for storage to complete future orders, or crossdocked based on existing orders, say 12 pallets each to four different distribution centers of the ultimate retailer. And the reverse is true. Export product can be accumulated for loading on a sea container, or air container. Multiple truck loads can be accumulated from a nearby factory for loading onto a rail car.