Is cross-docking the same as a hub-and-spoke logistics model?

No. A hub-and-spoke model is a network architecture connecting origin points through a central hub to destination points. Cross-docking is the physical terminal operation performed at that hub. Hub-and-spoke networks depend on cross-docking at their hub nodes — but the terms describe different concepts at different levels.

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