X-Dock in Oracle WMS
Crossdocking is the use of inbound receipts to satisfy outbound demands. You can use crossdocking to match outbound shipments to scheduled receipts in advance. This enables you to achieve faster flow-through times and optimize warehouse resources. Oracle Warehouse Management supports two types of crossdocking, planned crossdocking and opportunistic crossdocking. Planned crossdocking matches expected receipts to a demand source, and opportunistic crossdocking matches demands to received supply.
There are two types of X-Docking.
- Opportunistic Cross Dock
- Planned Cross Dock
Planned Crossdocking Versus Opportunistic Crossdocking
You use planned crossdocking and opportunistic crossdocking for different scenarios. Planned crossdocking works best when you know your supply in advance. It enables you to control the throughput of your warehouse and matches known demand with expected supplies. Opportunistic crossdocking helps with uncertainties. It uses the rules engine to match newly arriving supply to existing demands. This helps in cases in which a supply or demand source is changed, modified, or cancelled.
Navigation -> Warehouse Manager Responsibility -> Setup -> Warehouse Configuration -> Warehouses -> Rules -> Cross Dock Criteria
