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Planning and Optimisation
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Supply chain planning and optimising the flow of information and stock, plus associated control of costs and service levels.
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Planning and optimisation activities encompass strategic partnerships with supply chain partners and carriers, plus provision of visibility systems and supply chain consultancy.
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DHL works closely with customers to review supply chain efficiencies and ensure that wherever possible costs are driven down. Our data analysis technologies provide 'what if' modelling - helping our customers to assess the impact on their business of changing the rules of the game.
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A single plan can be developed and implemented across an entire supply chain, to meet customer requirements and reduce costs - whatever the complexities of the chain or the variations in demand.
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Forecasting and Demand Planning |
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Forecasting and demand planning services are performed in collaboration with our customers to develop tailored consumption plans for each product category - in order to achieve better balanced and timed deployment of inventory.
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By identifying and analysing marketing factors, seasonality aspects and other conditions affecting sales, DHL can help businesses achieve more accurate forecasts - allowing them to make proactive responses to changes in demand. Sales and customer satisfaction can thus be maximised without the need to invest in costly buffer stocks or risking stock-outs.
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Inventory optimisation is the balancing of supply chain service and cost objectives by managing product availability and inventory investment. Effective inventory optimisation drives inefficiencies out of supply chains - reducing overall costs - while raising service levels.
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DHL believes that inventory should be managed by exception at a line item level, in a knowledge-led process based on measured risks. We focus on achieving results in supplier management, expediting, order replenishment, demand forecasting, safety stock setting, order pipeline monitoring and excess stock management.
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Inventory optimisation is supported by inventory management software that calculates line item risk profiles - measuring the variability of demand and supply for each line item. We can typically offer:
- up to 20 percent inventory reduction and 8 percent improvement in product availability
- reduced inventory and overhead costs
- improved sales, profitability and return on investment
- high service standards
- better matching of supply with demand
- a more streamlined and responsive supply chain.
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When supply matches demand - whether through better forecasting or inventory optimisation, or both - the supply chain becomes not only leaner but also more agile, and better able to respond to customers' changing needs.
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