The specialized requirements of hotel, restaurant and catering businesses, including the management of perishable items, cost-effective inventories and reliable, economical delivery, can be met through a fully optimized supply chain. DHL’s consulting services and distribution solutions can help create the perfect solution to meet these challenging demands.

For competitive advantage, global expansion, multi-channel delivery and delivering a personalized consumer experience, DHL’s distribution and e-fulfillment services are the route to efficiency, value and customer satisfaction. DHL effectively handles orders placed via a variety of in-store and online systems, and provides track and trace technology from order through to delivery.

To succeed in fashion retail, where raw material costs, labor costs and the need for rapid delivery are particularly challenging to profitability, supply chains must be efficient and cost-effective. DHL’s dedicated fashion logistics service provides smart, multi-channel answers to support businesses at every stage of the product journey.

In the competitive global market for luxury goods, great presentation and security are essential. DHL is expertly equipped to handle high-value items and its pre-retail services can play a key role in supporting sales staff with, for example, packing, labelling and retail-ready point-of-sale displays.

Faced with intense global competition and increasingly demanding customers, specialty retailers can find ways of increasing efficiency and gaining advantage through DHL’s logistics consulting service. Services include in-store logistics – providing support and rapid take-down of themed displays – and e-commerce services capitalizing on the multi-channel trend.