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Consumer Goods Expertise 

DHL Supply Chain delivers flexible, end-to-end, specialized supply chain solutions for over 550 consumer companies

We provide supply chain solutions across a range of industries, including food (frozen, chilled and ambient), beverages, media and entertainment, and household goods. Our continuously expanding portfolio of services helps you address your most complex and urgent operational needs – from consulting, planning and network design to manufacturing, packaging and return logistics.

Market Trends
  • Consumers are connecting with brands in multiple channels, especially digital
  • Shoppers are looking for brands that match their values, especially sustainability
  • Direct-to-consumer models delight customers and build brand loyalty
Consumer Supply Chain Impact
  • Resilience through right-shoring is crucial to responding to fluctuations in demand
  • Control tower capabilities must enable end-to-end visibility, real-time analytics and collaboration
  • Operational and supply chain complexity must be reduced
Power the highly efficient, agile and sustainable consumer goods supply chain
  • Our integrated solutions bridge the gap between sales planning and operational processes
  • We can improve forecasting, streamline inventory and speed up delivery times
  • Coordinating horizontal collaboration between your ecosystem of partners, we will create higher levels of efficiency

Deep Consumer Goods Expertise

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)

Our collaborative logistics solutions deliver fast moving consumer goods to stores faster and cost-effectively.

Expertise Includes:
  • Optimizing product portfolios for competitive advantage
  • Implementing agile and efficient operations to improve speed to market
  • Multi-channel distribution

Consumer Durables

Our enhanced solutions cater to increasing consumer durables demand and distribution via new sales channels.

Expertise Includes:
  • Powering rapid growth in online sales and direct-to-customer distribution
  • Integrating new production plants in low-cost countries as part of your logistics operations

Perishables

Our expertise equips perishable goods manufacturers with logistics operations that increase product shelf lives and lower operating costs.

Expertise Includes:
  • Deploying digitally enabled capabilities through smart logistics
  • Implementing refrigerated storage and transport

Media and Entertainment

Our integrated solutions enable arts, entertainment and sports equipment manufacturers to increase efficiency and innovate distribution.

Expertise Includes:
  • Delivering higher efficiency across digital and physical supply chains
  • Leveraging alternative forms of content distribution including online and mobile

Explore Our Solutions

Transport Solutions

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Warehousing Solutions

Real Estate Solutions

Our Capabilities and Operating Standards

Global Footprint

Our unmatched capabilities and teams of supply chain experts globally provides consumer goods customers with growth opportunities in established and emerging economies. We provide the flexibility to scale up or down to meet complex requirements or overcome time-critical disruptions. 

Integrated End-to-End Solutions

With a range of solutions spanning warehousing, transportation and packaging operations, our integrated approach reduces cost, complexity and optimizes results. Dashboard visibility and control enables our consumer goods customers to make proactive and informed decisions. 

Operational Excellence

We continuously improve our operations and the knowledge of our team of logistics experts, while maintaining health and safety standards, to deliver real and sustained competitive advantage for our consumer goods customers.

Sustainability

We understand the growing need to cater to end consumers’ demands for more sustainable products. We enable our consumer goods customers to achieve their sustainability targets through concrete Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) priorities across our supply chain solutions.

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