Die sechste Ausgabe des DHL Logistics Trend Radar beleuchtet 40 Trends, die in den nächsten zehn Jahren maßgeblichen Einfluss für die globale Logistikindustrie haben werden. Beitrag: Redaktion. Die sechste Ausgabe des DHL Logistics Trend Radar beleuchtet 40 Trends, die in den nächsten zehn Jahren maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung von Unternehmen, Gesellschaften und Technologien für…
DHL Supply Chain has joined VentilatorChallengeUK, a consortium of businesses including Rolls-Royce, Ford, Airbus and UK-based Formula 1 teams including McLaren, to deliver some 10,000 new ventilators to the NHS. DHL will manage the inbound supply chain for two workstreams of VentilatorChallengeUK, which is ramping up manufacturing of existing, approved ventilator designs. VentilatorChallengeUK will see…
The world’s largest 3PL, DHL, has warned investors that it will not be able to avoid the impact of coronavirus on the worldwide economy, as it revealed record profit levels. For 2019 Deutsche Post DHL Group achieved 2.9% revenue growth to €63.3 billion (£56 billion), while operating profit increased 30.6% to €4.1 billion. Frank Appel,…
JLL has appointed Ashley Smart, formerly senior director, global sector development at DHL as supply chain director in its EMEA industrial and logistics business. Based in London, Smart will work as part of the wider team that is spread across Germany, France and The Netherlands to develop JLL’s supply chain business in the UK and…
At a time when the planet is facing atrocities linked to man-made climate change, companies are facing the harsh reality that if they don’t change their ways soon, then further destruction will be inevitable. But can this challenge be met at the same time as keeping customers happy? Michelle Mooney investigates. B2C e-commerce relies on…
The March 2020 issue of Logistics Manager is out now in print, online as well as for the iPad and Android. Cover Story: Big data, big decisions… As part of our March 2020 Supply Chain special we evaluate the future of Sales & Operational Planning and the role Artificial Intelligence and machine-learning will play. ERP: I want it all, and I…
I write this leader within throwing distance of the Home Office… an institution which has hit the headlines all week. It’s made the logistics sector in the UK face up to a serious issue: it is addicted to cheap, foreign labour. So, in Brexit-Britain, from1 January 2021, freedom of movement for European Union citizens in…
Aston Martin’s principal logistics partner DHL Supply Chain, has been awarded a contract expansion for the next seven years to manage its full in-bound supply chain in St Athan, Wales. Originally appointed for a five-year term in August 2017 it was decided that the contract should be extended to 2027. DHL currently handles Aston Martin’s…
The Road Haulage Association has joined calls for the government to provide more details on its ‘points system’ for immigrants and the criteria for establishing the basis of ‘skilled’ work . Earlier this week the Home Office said that from 1 January 2021, freedom of movement for European Union citizens in the UK will end….
DHL Supply Chain will run volumes for Inspired Pet Nutrition through its shared user network after winning a competitive tender. The contract will be delivered through the DHL Consumer Network, its national network of shared user warehouse and transport services to FMCG companies. DHL were originally appointed in 2019, and this new contract will build…
Over 130 exhibitors are now confirmed for IntraLogisteX, the only intralogistics exhibition to take place in the UK this year. Among the exhibitors are BS Handling Sytems; Exporta; Element Logic; Geek +; Honeywell Intelligrated; Interroll; Knapp; Linde; OrderWise; 6 River Systems; SnapFulfil and VoxWare among many, many others. There will be live demonstrations of the…
With the logistics sector requiring new skills for a new decade where digitisation and automation will change the way it works, can the sector plug its current skills gap, let alone bring in the new skills required to drive the change? Michelle Mooney investigates… Recruiting new talent into logistics has always been a major concern….
DHL Supply chain has signed a five year contract to provide logistics services for Sunseeker International. DHL will manage all in-bound freight movements, as well as goods receiving, stores, kitting, shipyard materials handling, and the line-feed of production. 80 Sunseeker employees will transfer to DHL under TUPE regulations, and DHL will help the luxury yacht…
At the Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2019 the winner of the Rising Star Award was Charlotte Thomas, warehouse operative, at Magna Park Distribution Centre for BT Supply Chain. The Rising Star Awards celebrates the achievements of an individual under the age of 35 for their outstanding work in the supply chain. Rising Star winner Charlotte…
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to look back on all we have learned in the past 12 months. Sustainability isn’t just a buzzword As Logistics Manager reporter Michelle Mooney reports in the January 2020 issue, there are huge strides being made in retail and manufacturing supply chains to make business more…
The growth of convenience retail makes it a tantalising market. But the competition is tough and it’s inspiring a re-think of replenishment logistics. Johanna Parsons investigates… The UK convenience retail market is set to grow to £48.2 billion by 2024, according to forecasts by IGD, and the competition to take a bite of that market…
The new head of Mainland Europe at DHL Supply Chain has said he hopes that the UK avoids no-deal Brexit, and for a deal between the UK and EU that continues to facilitate international and global trade. Speaking exclusively to Logistics Manager Hendrik Venter, chief executive for Mainland Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: “We…
Im Rahmen eines Pressegesprächs gab Oscar de Bok, CEO DHL Supply Chain, Einblicke in die Strategien und Innovationen, die der Geschäftsbereich im Zuge seiner Strategie 2025 umsetzen wird. „Innovationen und Digitalisierung stellen Mitarbeiter und Kunden in den Mittelpunkt,“ lautet dabei das Motto. Die neue Geschäftsstrategie 2025 konzentriert sich im Wesentlichen auf vier Bereiche: In Bezug…
The logistics industry is on the ‘brink of a major disruptive wave’ driven by digitalisation and innovation, that will transform the way services are delivered in the sector according to the largest supplier of third-party logistics in the world. DHL Supply Chain laid out its ambitions to be a “leader” in digitalisation and innovation –…
DHL Supply Chain has broken ground on a 538,195ft 2 (50,000 m2) warehouse development in Manton Wood, near Worksop in Derbyshire. The multi-user facility will have the capacity for 110,000 pallets, including 46,000 pallets of goods subject to Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations, for its retail and consumer business segments. Featuring a 28m…
Luxury yacht maker Sunseeker International is in advanced negotiations with DHL Supply Chain over the provision of logistics services. Should negotiations be successfully concluded, Sunseeker said that DHL would manage all in-bound freight movements, as well as goods receiving, stores, kitting, shipyard material movements and the line-feed of production parts. It also said that DHL…
E-commerce dominates the retail sector like no other materials handling market. More customers want a greater diversity of choice delivered directly to their homes in the quickest and most convenient time possible. For those supplying goods under such constraints the demands on existing warehousing infrastructure are enormous… Christopher Walton investigates. Compound this with the potential…
Mothercare is to wind down all 79 of its UK stores after PwC were appointed as administrators for the high street retail chain. Zelf Hussain, David Robert Baxendale and Mark James Tobias Banfield of PwC were appointed as joint administrators of Mothercare UK, and Mothercare Business Services on Tuesday 5 November. The entities in administration…
A 538,280 sq ft distribution warehouse built to suit for DHL has been put on the investment market for more than £61 million. The unit will operate as a strategic DHL Supply Chain campus for the East Midlands region and is offered for sale with DHL guaranteeing a 20-year lease following completion of the building…
DHL Supply Chain hat sich im Laufe der zehnjährigen Partnerschaft mit Jaguar Land Rover zum wichtigen Bestandteil der Lieferkette und der britischen Fertigungsbetriebe des Automobilherstellers entwickelt. Jetzt wird die Zusammenarbeit um das Management der Inbound-Lieferkette für die neue Produktionsstätte des Automobilherstellers in Nitra in der Slowakei erweitert. In der nächsten Phase der Partnerschaft soll DHL…
KFC has described supply and distribution issues last year resulting from its contract with DHL and QSL as a “distribution crisis” after it led to a 6.8 per cent decline in same store sales growth. In its annual report for the year-ending 23 December 2018, filed to Companies House, Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) said:…
DHL Supply Chain has renewed its contract with Jaguar Land Rover, with an an extended brief to manage the in-bound supply chain for the company’s new manufacturing site in Slovakia. The two parties have worked together for ten years, and the extension takes it forward for a further five years. During this period both parties…
Der weltweit führende Logistikkonzern Deutsche Post DHL Group stellt mit der „Strategie 2025 – Delivering excellence in a digital world“ die Weichen für eine Fortsetzung seines erfolgreichen Wachstumskurses über den Horizont der bisherigen „Strategie 2020“ hinaus. Das Unternehmen wird sich zukünftig noch konsequenter darauf ausrichten, das anhaltend große Potenzial für langfristig profitables Wachstum in seinen…
DHL Supply Chain has taken delivery of the first of 700 new Volvo trucks, including 550 FH tractor units, as part of a £90million investment in its UK fleet. José Nava, chief executive of DHL Supply Chain UK and Ireland, said that the deliver was the next step in its commitment to “reduce all logistics-related…
Hendrik Venter has been appointed as chief executive at DHL Supply Chain for Mainland Europe, Middle East and Africa, with effect from 1 October. Venter succeeds Oscar de Bok as member of the Board of Management at Deutsche Post DHL Group in October. “Customer centricity, a first-class service portfolio and happy employees in a motivating…
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