TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding Organizational Characteristics for Cross-Docking Adoption
T2 - 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications, ICIEA 2020
AU - Naunthong, Phatcharika
AU - Sud-On, Ploy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - The cross-docking technique has attracted businesses as a way to respond to customer orders by increasing goods flow and shortening the shipping cycle. In cross-dock, incoming goods are sorted and directly reloaded to the outgoing trucks without being stored in between. The literatures have reviewed on the suitability of cross-dock and organizational structure, yet only few have identified the common attributes or they only focused on one aspect of organizational characteristics. This paper pertains to the study of organizational characteristics for cross-docking adoption. A total of 300 questionnaires were collected from different firms in central Thailand. Based on the descriptive analysis, the results showed that cross-dock is widely used in different industries such as retailing, food and drug and textiles. The predominant goods that go through cross-dock are not just only finished products but also raw material. Types of industry and inventory were found to have a significant impact on the choices of cross-dock, while size of organization and automation level showed no influence on the selection of distribution operations.
AB - The cross-docking technique has attracted businesses as a way to respond to customer orders by increasing goods flow and shortening the shipping cycle. In cross-dock, incoming goods are sorted and directly reloaded to the outgoing trucks without being stored in between. The literatures have reviewed on the suitability of cross-dock and organizational structure, yet only few have identified the common attributes or they only focused on one aspect of organizational characteristics. This paper pertains to the study of organizational characteristics for cross-docking adoption. A total of 300 questionnaires were collected from different firms in central Thailand. Based on the descriptive analysis, the results showed that cross-dock is widely used in different industries such as retailing, food and drug and textiles. The predominant goods that go through cross-dock are not just only finished products but also raw material. Types of industry and inventory were found to have a significant impact on the choices of cross-dock, while size of organization and automation level showed no influence on the selection of distribution operations.
KW - Thai industries
KW - cross-docking
KW - descriptive analysis
KW - organizational characteristics
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85086075648
U2 - 10.1109/ICIEA49774.2020.9102045
DO - 10.1109/ICIEA49774.2020.9102045
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85086075648
T3 - 2020 IEEE 7th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications, ICIEA 2020
SP - 864
EP - 867
BT - 2020 IEEE 7th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications, ICIEA 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 16 April 2020 through 21 April 2020
ER -