Energy Mining Solutions
DHL understands the unique challenges associated with mining operations. Whether it is the mining of oil sands, coal, uranium or minerals, sources are becoming more remote and difficult to access, with high operating costs and low levels of labor availability. In addition, transporting extracted product is expensive. Mining operations are also under constant pressure to maximize profitability, particular when experiencing fluctuations in the external economic environment.
DHL can help you consolidate your supply chain to increase asset utilization with better material availability, resulting in higher uptime for equipment and operations and higher productivity for your teams. And we can manage your 3PL transporters or provide outsourced freight solutions, giving you cost-effective choices for optimizing the movement of extracted materials to processing plants, ports and beyond.
DHL can help you consolidate your supply chain to increase asset utilization with better material availability, resulting in higher uptime for equipment and operations and higher productivity for your teams. And we can manage your 3PL transporters or provide outsourced freight solutions, giving you cost-effective choices for optimizing the movement of extracted materials to processing plants, ports and beyond.
Extended Supply Chains Supporting Remote Locations
New projects are frequently being implemented in increasingly remote and difficult geographies with significant political challenges, where key logistics providers lack operational experience and infrastructure.
Short Planning Horizons
As with any major project environment, engineering changes are planned and implemented at short notice, impacting on material planning horizons.
Less Developed Preventative Maintenance
Keeping mines operational and productive is key to maintaining productivity and profitability. In more remote locations, preventative maintenance processes are often less well developed. As such the supply chain can become more reactive, with associated increase in cost and decrease in delivery performance.
Fragmented Supply Chains
Traditionally mining companies have passed responsibility for materials provision down through the supply chain - often losing control and visibility of materials.
Materials don’t always reach engineering staff on time, to plan, reducing productivity and hence plant availability.
Materials don’t always reach engineering staff on time, to plan, reducing productivity and hence plant availability.
Different Responsibilities to Engineering Equipment Manufacturers
Some equipment manufacturers already provide robust supply chains to support their machinery in the field. However, these solutions cover only a selective area of materials provision to support a mine site.
The High Cost of Moving Extracted Product
With mining operations, the largest expense is typically associated with transporting extracted product from the mine site to processing sites or to ports.
Capital Project Logistics & Transportation
The massive scale of capital projects in the energy mining sector often results in highly fragmented supply chains. Responsibility for supply chain management has historically been divested to a large number of different sub-contractors from different regions and countries. In this way, mining companies often lose control and visibility of the supply chain and cannot easily track the flow of materials. Materials don’t get to the engineering staff on time, reducing productivity and preventing projects from coming in on time and on budget.
Inbound-to-Operations (MRO)
Inbound-to-operations, also known as materials re-supply or maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) is critical to energy mining operations. Keeping the right equipment and parts on-site to repair and maintain production equipment is a balancing act. You need to keep the site running and the engineering teams productive while minimizing unnecessary overhead.
In-plant Services
In-plant logistics services for the oil and gas industry includes a range of operations that occur within our customers’ facilities and property fence lines. DHL is dedicated to achieving the highest level of safety when operating on your site. We can support your team - or be your team - by handling labor management, warehousing, yard management, plant and tool store management, railcar switching and cleaning, and many more.
Compliance
Many materials within the oil and gas markets are expensive, potentially dangerous and intended for specific uses only. Whether compliance relates to Health Safety Security Environment (HSSE), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), or other national or international compliance legislation, DHL is committed to following the strictest standards in managing your materials supply chain, irrespective of location. These standards are applied to both DHL’s own teams and direct supply chain activities, as well as to DHL’s sub-contractors and suppliers operating as part of your broader materials supply chain (e.g. transportation sub-contractors, specialist suppliers, customs agents, etc).
Procurement Services
We provide a range of services, from procurement consulting and outsourcing, to an integrated service combining procurement and logistics management, to ensure that procured products are delivered when and where they are required.
Lead Logistics Provider (LLP)
At DHL, being Lead Logistics Provider (LLP) means instigating and managing change across your entire supply chain to meet changing business and customer demands. We do this by bringing continuous improvement and cost reduction, introducing lean logistics processes and optimizing logistics networks.
