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Solutions for Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Fashion.
    
Fast Moving Consumer Goods
Fashion Industry
Campus Solutions
Shared-user Warehousing

DHL and Consumer Goods

In a highly competitive market, our services support consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers and other consumer products companies in meeting increased demands of their retail customers.

We provide a wide range of supply chain services including: network and facility design, ambient and multi-temperature warehousing, transportation management and consolidation, primary and secondary packaging as well as comprehensive inbound logistics management solutions.

Because of our core competencies in this sector, our customers realise return on investment in the form of improved product flow, reduced costs, improved inventory management and increased flexibility to meet seasonal demands and new product launches.

Fast Moving Consumer Goods

By outsourcing logistics to DHL, multinational customers in the food (frozen, chilled, ambient), beverage, wines and spirits, personal and home care, tobacco and domestic appliance industries improve flow of goods and reduce lead times and costs.
For economies of scale and efficient technologies for both manufacturers and retailers, we offer:
  • Consolidation - bundling deliveries from different manufacturers to identical retail outlets at cross docking points, increasing supply chain efficiency for consumer-triggered (pull) orders
  • "European Article Number" (EAN) coding to support Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), speeding up goods flow and reducing costs
  • Procurement logistics
  • Mega Store multi-user-warehouses
  • Merge-in-transit
  • Reverse logistics
  • Control tower (LLP)
  • Complete outsourcing, including transfer of staff, infrastructure financing, business optimisation and supply chain integration
Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) PDF (1.08mb)

Fashion Industry

Success in the Fashion industry depends on speed, getting new trends and reorder to market fast. Fashion companies reduce costs and lead time through DHL's customised logistics solutions, from sourcing to intercontinental shipping out of production to retail delivery around the world.

These innovative, high-quality supply chain solutions integrate physical, information and financial needs, providing customers with increased control of resources and extra time to focus on their core business.

For optimum flexibility and speed, you can outsource your entire logistics operation, including distribution centres, transport, back-office, supply chain management and after sales, to DHL.
Fashion Solutions PDF (1.03mb)

DHL has a proven track record in enabling the fashion industry to maximise sales, reduce risk and operate the entire supply chain expertly and efficiently through comprehensive services:

  • Cut, Make, Trim (CMT) / Outward Processing Relief (OPR). Transport and customs management of materials and product following a procedure that avoids customs payment
  • Domestic (DDN) and Regional Distribution Networks (RDN) - warehousing and distribution to stores
  • Fulfilment services
  • Supply chain management
  • Global sourcing including consolidation, picking-at-source, quality control
  • Value-added services, such as price ticketing and reconditioning
  • Retail logistics
  • Lead Logistics Provider (SCM) - integrated supply chain services from DHL, whether end-to-end solutions or management of partial supply chain solutions
  • Outsourcing - save money by integrating your warehouses and distribution networks into the DHL network

Campus Solutions

We pioneered the campus model to provide its regional concentrations of customers with a flexible solution designed to capitalise on similar distribution channels, minimise labour costs, and increase specialised equipment utilisation. This structure delivers significant efficiencies and cost savings for our customers.

Campuses are strategically located at key distribution points in North and South America, Europe and select locations in Asia, allowing for expedited transit times to large concentrations of consumers. This proven business model is applied consistently by region, and is characterised by a scalable, standard systems environment.
Our campuses provide an optimal setting for best practice implementations that can be leveraged across customers. Specifically, some of the comprehensive services provided at our locations include:
  • Rapid startup of new operations
  • Transportation management
  • Shipment consolidation
  • Direct store delivery
  • Reverse logistics
  • Vendor management
  • Shared-user warehousing

Shared-user Warehousing

Our shared-user facilities are designed to meet the needs of organisations of any size. Currently, we provide shared-user services to leading manufacturers and retailers of medical supplies, consumer products, industrial equipment, chemicals and technology.

Through sharing of DHLs resources, such as space, labour, equipment and transportation, customers benefit from synergies that considerably reduce supply chain costs. Consequently, the customer can increase efficiencies throughout their distribution network and maintain a higher level of service to their customers.

For more information, please go to Warehousing

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