DHL enhances the business of our customers by offering highest quality express and logistics solutions based on strong local expertise combined with the most extensive global network presence
DHL Overview DHLs parent company Deutsche Post World Net is the worlds leading logistics group. With revenues of more than 63 billion and 500,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories it is one of the biggest employers worldwide. Largest Courier and Express provider in Europe, Asia Pacific and Middle East /Africa Ranked 3rd worldwide 8 million customers 36 Hubs and 4,700 bases 350 aircraft, 72,000 vehicles 59 countries and territories 2,500 logistics centers, warehouses, terminals 23million m2 storage capacity 150 countries and territories 813 terminals & warehouses 4.4million t Air; 2.8miliion TEU Ocean
Worlds No.1 in Warehousing, Distribution & Contract Logistics
Worlds No.1 in Air and Ocean Freight
Europes No. 2 in Road Freight
30 countries and territories 160 terminals 2million full truck load movements Cross-border solutions for business mail, publication distribution, direct marketing and merchandise
Largest worldwide network for Mail Distribution
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT It implies estimating the time requires for collecting the goods from the door step of the sender and then estimating the time for the goods to reach the final customer. DHL owns its success for the efficiency with which the operations are carried out. They are given a certain password which they can use to trace via online or their customer service helpline.
DHL Supply Chain
Individual Customers drop DHL Office DHL Pack pickup drop Corporate Customers
Central Location Office
Region sorting and bulk packing local
Local or National / International
Distribution
truck Regional Hub Distribution if local
DHL Supply Chain (Contd.)
A Airport courier Air India or Kingfisher Passenger Cargo or Courier
cargo Blue Dart Flights
Destination / Hub truck Destination Warehouse truck no
Destination found?
Reverse logistics to sender
DHL Office at Destination
yes Destination
Inbound Logistics Procurement Services: DHL's procurement specialists can deliver substantial cost savings on a wide range of non-core products; everything from promotional materials and consumables, to work wear, operational spare parts and other goods not-for-resale.
Raw material warehousing: Irrespective of the industry sector,
DHL provides raw materials warehousing services, by understanding the production processes and anticipating business and logistics needs.
Transportation: Company helps moving products from manufacturing
plants to warehouses, between international, national, and regional facilities and to distributors.
Outbound Logistics
Inbound To Manufacturing (For the client): DHL solutions
provide complete end-to-end logistics management of inventories, facilities, and labour associated with the inbound flow of materials to make sure that right material reach the right destination at the right time in right state.
In-plant Logistics: DHL in-plant services help you cut costs,
increase productivity, and get the best out of clients most valuable resource: clients employees.
Value Added Services
Contract packing: It involves the integration of outsourced
packing operations into distribution centres, to increase flexibility and streamline fulfilment. DHL offers a comprehensive co-packing service, including the repacking of finished products to support product launches, promotions and customization for local markets. DHL offers additional packing solutions, including packaging design and packaging materials procurement, as well as environmentally friendly transit packaging.
Inventory Management & Warehousing
Finished Goods Warehousing: DHL provides customized warehouses to their clients. Their services include- Rail-connected warehousing, Automation and auto-sortation systems, Cross-docking. At Main Collection offices To store materials if on delay or on Sundays before material is sent to consumers. At hub airport DHL has warehouse at airports in main hub locations i.e., Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmadabad, Hyderabad & Bangalore to store materials on delay of flights.
Main Warehouse outside Octroi All cities have a DHL Warehouse outside octroi limits to store materials which are incoming and are subject to octroi charges and are not cleared. E.g.
Distribution Home delivery: DHL provides home delivery service to its customers by combining distribution centre operations with their home and office delivery operations, DHL helps service customers more efficiently and effectively.
In-store Logistics: DHL's in-store logistics service can ready
the product for presentation to the public, so that their customer's retail staff dont have to. Even better, all this can be done overnight.
Service Parts Logistics: DHL provides spare parts to their
clients' customers within an agreed time period. help them to anticipate and prepare for that demand
Reverse Logistics
This service deals with bringing back the un-delivered goods or obsolete goods.
Other Facilities Barcode Scanning at milestone locations Preparation of Online Waybills (a document attached to goods in transit specifying their nature, point of origin, and destination as well as the route to be taken and the rate to be charged) Online booking of consignments collect pickup Last 99 days shipping records available through the website
DHL Express SMS
Innovative Supply Chain Development
Supply Chain Management services are delivered across industry sectors and provide expertise, knowledge and resources in terms of personnel and supply chain tools. The services are as follows: Strategic Logistics Consulting Lead Logistics Provider Consulting and providing Transport optimization: Route-Pro and Trans-Pro Consulting and providing Supply Chain Design Consulting and providing Transportation Engineering, optimization and re-engineering Implementation and Project Management Process Management Outsourcing
DHL Innovations
DHL SMART SENSOR TEMPERATURE: provides you
with uninterrupted temperature monitoring during the entire transport and at the reloading points.
RFID technology (Radio Frequency Identification) : It make data readings possible without opening the package. Temperature fluctuations are thus eliminated. RFID contains a chip which has all the information of the consignment. RFID system is used to optimize the tracking, loading and control of incoming goods.
