{"id":25358,"date":"2025-08-02T05:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/uncategorized\/cross-docking-intro\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:17:58","slug":"cross-docking-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/bharath-india\/cross-docking-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Docking Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_19926\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QHsxYfmB30I?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video introduces the <strong>Cross Docking<\/strong> feature in <strong>Odoo18<\/strong>, a logistics strategy that minimizes handling and storage time by transferring incoming products directly to outgoing shipments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Core Concept<\/strong>: The narrator explains that cross-docking is a practice where products from a supplier are delivered directly to a customer with little to no storage time in the warehouse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Enabling Required Settings<\/strong>: To use this feature, you must first go to the <strong>Inventory<\/strong> module settings and enable <strong>Storage Locations<\/strong> and <strong>Multi-Step Routes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Warehouse Configuration<\/strong>: The video demonstrates navigating to <strong>Configuration &gt; Warehouses<\/strong> to select the specific warehouse where cross-docking will be applied.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Defining Shipment Steps<\/strong>: Under the Shipments tab, the narrator sets <strong>Incoming Shipments<\/strong> to &#8220;Receive then Store (2 steps)&#8221; and <strong>Outgoing Shipments<\/strong> to &#8220;Pick then Deliver (2 steps)&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Activating the Route<\/strong>: In the <strong>Routes<\/strong> section, the <strong>Cross-Dock<\/strong> route must be selected to define how products move directly from the input area to the output area for the customer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Creating a Sales Order<\/strong>: The demonstration shows how to create a new <strong>Sales Order<\/strong>, select a product (such as steel), and specify the quantity to trigger the cross-docking workflow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video introduces the Cross Docking feature in Odoo18, a logistics strategy that minimizes handling and storage time by transferring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bharath-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}