Accelerating the Pace of Digital Transformation

The rise of e-commerce requirements (faster delivery, more SKUs and increased order picking), combined with labor shortages across regions and sectors, indicates fast adoption of technology is more necessary that ever. At DHL Supply Chain, we have developed an accelerated digitization program to nurture and deploy innovative technology solutions at scale.

Innovation

Identify and manage future relevant key technologies pipeline
Develop ideas into concepts
Assessment criterion based on technology maturity, desirability and feasibility

Productization

Boost technologies’ digital journey to become a standard and scalable product
Productized along an 8-step process
Guide on how to deploy and use technologies

Regional Deployment

Maximize the application across all operations and business opportunities
Regional site profiling to find operations with the highest potential benefits
Sprint approach to a roll-out of innovation, operations’ toolset and processes

Specific Services and Capabilities

Trend Radar

We investigate social, business and technology trends to understand which ideas, in our organization as well as externally are the most promising ones to be tested in one of our operations (PoC). We are looking for opportunities in:

Warehousing
Transport
Back-office

Incubation

If we can't find it on the market, we will co-create. The objective of Incubation is to find ways to leverage the value of digital solutions developed internally to design and build an efficient and sustainable business model. Recent accelerated digitization examples include:

Digital Manufacturing - packing line

Knowledge Sharing

Once available and ready for deployment, the regional deployment teams begin implementation and scale it to multiple operations. The team ensures each product in the catalogue includes:

Document and Package

Pallets, Containers and Cargo (Business Only)