Tap into the power of flexible navigation and keep your dock-to-dock transportation running like clockwork. Vecna’s flexible navigation allows many robots to move many goods, to many locations safely and quickly.
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Workflow Solutions
Cross Docking
The Challenge
Cross-docking turbulence
Cross-docking is designed for speed, not storage—but traditional manual processes introduce friction that slow it down.
Common challenges include:
Labor-Intensive Dock-to-Dock Transfers
Forklifts or tuggers must be manned continuously to shuttle inbound pallets to outbound staging, pulling operators away from more strategic tasks.
Dock Congestion & Inefficient Routing
Manual vehicles wait in queues, cross paths, and circle for openings—wasting time and risking collisions in busy reception and shipping zones.
Throughput Inconsistency
When transfers don’t keep pace with truck cycles, shipping delays occur, leading to detention charges or missed delivery windows.
Poor Adaptability to Arrival Variability
Fixed routes and manual scheduling can’t flex with fluctuating truck arrival times or changing ship manifests, leading to misalignment between incoming and outgoing freight.
The Solution
Seamless, Flexible Cross‑Docking
See how it works
- Vecna’s Pivotal software is given a pickup mission to clear pallets from the receiving doc and dispatches an AMR.
- The AMR autonomously picks the first pallet and plots the most efficient route to its P&D location, avoiding obstacles along the way.
- The AMR drops the pallet to the appropriate outbound staging lane for final shipping.
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Managing the full flow of work between people, robots, and systems.
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Multi-layered safety systems that exceed industry standards.
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