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Returns and Circularity

Boost customer satisfaction and repeat purchases with easy returns that recover value, and reduce waste

Our modular Returns and Circularity solution delivers end-to-end circular logistics for B2B, B2C, and hybrid channels across three key areas:

  • Inbound and returns orchestration
  • Processing, repair and refurbishment of returned products in the warehouse
  • Final disposition of goods such as re-selling, re-marketing, liquidation, or responsible recycling

Delight Your Customers

We make returns simple for the end consumer, keep them informed during the entire returns journey, process returned goods quickly and allow for fast refunds – creating a unique experience that encourages repeat purchases and builds lasting loyalty.

Boost Your Bottom Line

Our returns activities are data and systems-driven and where possible automated - boosting efficient processing, easy scaling, and ultimately supporting further sales opportunities.

Maximize Value Recovery

We offer expert repair, remarketing, and recycling solutions – enhancing your ability to restock or resell products at best value and through channels that protect your brand.

Optimize Your Resources

We help recover more products and promote their re-use – helping your business save money, while advancing your sustainability goals, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Managing Returns: From Request Receipt to Resale

Inbound Capabilities

  • Initiation: We make returns easy for customers
  • Drop-off and Shipping: We manage collection and transport for all returns
  • Returns Management & Analytics: Our solution guide the end-consumer through the entire return process

Processing and Recovery

  • Processing: We inspect and sort returned products into different grades or categories the moment they arrive
  • Returns Recovery: Our repair or and refurbishment services to get valuable products back to stock quickly
  • Re-channeling: We can prepare  the returns for resale, or other uses, in your main or secondary channels
  • Transforming returns: Turn returns into a competitive advantage by extending the product's lifecycle through options such as returning to stock or vendor, remarketing and liquidation, recycling, donating, and waste-to-energy destruction.

Final Disposition

  • Re-selling: We help you sell returned items through various channels  and platforms directly from the warehouse
  • End-of-Life: We responsibly recycle, donate, or dispose of unsellable items as needed
  • Remarketing and Liquidation: Improve recovery value and operate more sustainably through liquidation and bulk resale of excess inventory, shelf pulls, and returns.
  • Quickly process product recalls to mitigate risks and protect brand reputation through process optimization, product retrieval, notification and response, disposition and asset recovery, and recall analytics.

Benefits to You

  • Convenient Returns: We ensure a fast and easy returns process for consumers, boosting satisfaction and loyalty
  • Efficient Processing: Our streamlined returns handling is cost-effective, keeping processing competitive
  • Value Recovery: We repair and refurbish products to resell, maximizing value for our customers and supporting sustainability

DHL ReTurn Network

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