Manitu. An intelligent shelf system for fast-moving goods
Manitu is a shelf system designed specifically for Cross-Docking, equipped with intelligent features so we can serve your webshop as efficiently as possible.
How Cross-Docking works
We know that every minute of downtime costs time and money for a webshop. That is why our system is designed to help you minimize it.
We bring in your products
Your products arrive in our warehouse. You can send them yourself, or we can collect them if you prefer not to handle transport.
We register the product on Manitu
After identification, products receive their temporary storage location on the machine and are assigned to the right shelf position on Manitu.
Product matching
Manitu looks for matching orders for registered products and notifies the team about matches, creating ready-to-pack shipments.
Registration and dispatch
The package is closed, its weight is registered, and it moves to the courier collection area. It can be on its way the next day.
What is cross-docking?
Cross-docking is an innovative logistics service for webshops. Cross-docking provides the greatest financial security for webshops because it makes webshop logistics costs 100% predictable. It got its name from the fact that it is similar in method to
Advantages of our Cross-Docking service
Minimizing logistics expenses:
It's especially important for smaller starting webshops to quickly make their online stores profitable with little capital and without automation. When operating your own warehouse, you need to think about warehouse rental or purchase costs, building maintenance expenses, and the labor question for packaging. With cross-docking, you only need to account for these fees: packaging, shipping, delivery, and the service fee.
No fixed costs:
Fulfillment and 4PL logistics drastically reduce the webshop's fixed logistics costs, since practically the warehousing fee is the only cost that must be financed regardless of the number of orders from these webshop logistics products. Cross-docking goes even beyond these outsourced logistics solutions by having NO warehousing costs.
No shelf fees:
In 4PL and fulfillment cases, goods enter the fulfillment center where products are stored in warehouses or on shelves. This naturally means costs for us, and it's also uncertain how long warehousing will be needed. In cross-docking, incoming goods don't go on shelves at all; instead, logistics processing begins immediately after goods arrival. Since the warehousing phase can be avoided with cross-docking, webshops can operate in an ideal system for their business that is free from storage space costs and shelf fees.
Lightning-fast delivery:
After products arrive from the manufacturer or wholesalers to our logistics center, we immediately start packaging and the same day we begin delivery of the package. Your customer can receive their order as early as the next day, so with cross-docking you can increase customer satisfaction.
Frequently asked questions about Cross-Docking
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