Cross-docking
Cross-docking is a flow, not a building: inbound freight is staged across the dock onto outbound trailers with little or no putaway. The pallet has to arrive already built to the outbound rule — correct TI-HI, wrap, label, no overhang — because nobody will rebuild it in a rack. FBA injection and grocery transfers live on this idea.
If the outbound is a 53-foot grocery load, inbound pallets must already match that retailer’s height and label rules. The pallet calculator is the inbound build, not a suggestion for the cross-dock crew.