Logistics
Crossdock Lens
TCO comparison for cross-dock, warehouse & hybrid strategies with scenario simulation
Crossdock Lens helps logistics managers evaluate total cost of ownership across cross-dock, warehouse, and hybrid strategies. Features include scenario modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, and strategy recommendations.
What It's Great For
Common scenarios where Crossdock Lens shines
Warehouse vs. Cross-Dock Decision
Determine whether a cross-dock or warehouse strategy minimizes total cost for a new product line.
Risk Assessment for Peak Seasons
Use Monte Carlo simulation to quantify the financial risk of demand surges during holiday peaks.
Dock-Door Capacity Planning
Simulate dock-door queues to ensure facility throughput meets arrival rates without costly delays.
Supplier Strategy Recommendation
Get an instant recommendation on which stocking strategy fits your supplier profile and SKU characteristics.
Automation ROI Analysis
Evaluate whether investing in automated sortation systems delivers positive NPV under various growth scenarios.
Cost Benchmarking Across Regions
Adjust TCO for different geographic regions to compare labor, real estate, and utility cost impacts.
Features
What Crossdock Lens can do for you
Full TCO Modelling
Compare total annual costs across cross-dock, warehouse, and hybrid strategies with detailed cost breakdowns.
Scenario Simulation
Run Monte Carlo and discrete-event simulations to stress-test your logistics plans against real-world variability.
Strategic Recommendations
Get scored strategy recommendations based on your operational profile, readiness, and cost sensitivity.
Advanced Financial Analysis
Deep-dive with NPV across horizons, surge cost impacts, automation ROI, and geographic cost adjustments.
Inventory & Throughput Insights
Analyse safety stock, fill rates, dock-door capacity, and queueing performance to optimise resource allocation.
All Features
- Full TCO comparison across cross-dock, warehouse, and hybrid strategies
- Monte Carlo simulation for cost risk quantification
- Discrete-event queueing simulation for dock-door throughput
- Strategic recommendation engine with scored strategies
- Advanced Phase 2 (Pro) analysis with NPV, surges, and automation ROI
- Safety stock and carrying cost calculation
- Inventory turns analysis
- Sensitivity analysis and tornado charts
- Break-even analysis
- Geographic cost variability modeling
- Multi-modal freight cost comparison
- Cold chain cost evaluation
- Compliance cost estimation
- Carrier risk assessment
- Bottleneck detection
- Fill rate simulation
- Dock-door capacity calculation
- Exit cost and depreciation analysis
- ABC-XYZ SKU classification
- SKU velocity and storage tier cost allocation
Integrate
Connect programmatically via the public API or MCP server
https://crossdocklens.codecide.net/api Use this base URL for API requests.
Interactive API Docs →https://crossdocklens.codecide.net/mcp Add this URL to your MCP client (Claude, Cursor, etc.)
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Crossdock Lens is free to use under the MIT license.
Crossdock Lens is provided for estimation and educational purposes only. We make no warranty about the accuracy, completeness, or fitness of its results. Always verify outputs before applying them to designs, decisions, or safety-critical work.