JUST IN SEQUENCE SUPPLY WITH MULTILEVEL CROSS DOCKING

The globalisation of the economy, which can be described by the reduction of transportation, communication and management costs, has changed the structure of logistics processes including purchasing, production, distribution and recycling. Production companies try to optimise their supply chain to reduce the logistics costs. One of the most powerful methods to simplify the supply chain is the cross docking. The aim of cross docking is to sort products intended for different production destinations or to combine products from different suppliers into transportation vehicles with the same destination. The cross docking can be used not only in the case of traditional, but also just in time or just in sequence supply. Within the frame of this paper, the author focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of cross docking concept of just in sequence supply. She describes a model of just in sequence supply with cross docking. By the aid of the described model, it is possible to describe the cost factors of the whole supply chain.