with consolidated cargo, resulting in low transportation costs.The operation of the Transit Point, however, is dependent on the existence of sufficient volume to enable the transport of consolidated cargo with a regular frequency. When there is no scale to make daily deliveries, for example, procedures may be necessary as the scheduled delivery, where requests for a geographic area are served on certain days of the week.Cross-DockingThe facilities like cross-docking operate under the same format as the Transit Points, but are characterized by involving multiple suppliers serving customers in common. Retail chains are natural candidates for use of this system and, in fact, there are numerous examples of the extensive use of cross-docking in this sector.Carts come complete with multiple vendors and then begins a process of separating the applications, with the movement of the cargo receiving area to the shipping area. In cross-docking systems are used automated bar code readers that identify the source and destination of each pallet. Thus, the pallets are automatically routed to their docks via conveyor and loaded into vehicles that will make the local delivery. They leave with a full load, consisting of products from multiple vendors.While operating procedure, the cross-docking has been used informally for some time now for various companies in their traditional warehouses. The cross-docking operation occurs, for example, when management has sought to dispatch a request for emergency or seeks to fill pending orders through products that are received before they are directed to the storage area. The management then diverts these products to the shipping docks so that they are shipped as soon as possible. This procedure, while offering advantages to minimize the internal drives to stores, only takes advantage of the benefits resulting from cross-docking concept.Although it is operationally simple, so there is success in cross-docking operation is necessary a high level of coordination among the participants (suppliers, carriers) made possible by the intensive use of information systems such as electronic transmission of data and identification of products by code toolbar. Moreover, it is of fundamental importance to the existence of storage management software (WMS) to coordinate the intense and rapid flow of goods between the docks.The ability to advance planning and strict compliance allow the passage of the stock installation is as short as possible. When there is little coordination, a lack of synchronization between the proceeds of the charges, you need more space to keep the stock and vehicles may have to wait longer to have its full charge.The cross-docking facilities that operate with high efficiency have only one platform to the receiving docks on one side and the other shipping docks. The only cross platform products for shipment. There is, therefore, need large areas for the stock in transit and use of docks and vehicles is much higher.This does not mean that this is the only way to cross-docking operation. It is also possible to use the cross-docking "future", where the products are not to be received immediately moved to the local delivery vehicles, but remain in a waiting area for loading. The more "future" is the cross-docking,