Solutions for the Chemical Sector

DHL's Chemical sector provides order fulfillment, in-plant, transportation management, vendor managed and consigned inventory and reverse logistics solutions to the petrochemical, specialty chemical, plastics and resins and lubricants industries.

DHL also offers supply chain design and optimisation services. Our solutions and supporting core services are focused on increasing revenue and decreasing costs. These solutions can stand-alone or be bundled to meet customer need.

Our order fulfillment solutions include the distribution and associated value-added services of finished goods.

DHL specialises in value-added activities such as:

• Inventory management
• Toll packaging
• Cross-docking
• Mode transfer (e.g. bulk rail to truck or export container)
• Shuttle services (to and from manufacturing)
• Transportation scheduling and dispatch
• Dedicated fleets
• Labour sharing (multi-customer solution)

In-plant solutions include a range of activities executed within our customer's facilities and property fence lines.

DHL's in-plant solutions include:

• Distribution and warehousing
• Packaging
• Blending
• Yard management
• Container management
• Rail drill management
• Returnable asset management (e.g. tote bins)
• Sample packaging and shipping
• Transportation scheduling and dispatch

DHL provides a number of extended supply chain management solutions to include additive chemicals consignments as well as kanban replenishment of raw materials to manufacturing. Our services include:

• Identifying min/max and economic order quantity levels
• Using our customer's purchasing agreements to order/re-order product
• Managing consigned inventories
• Distribution and warehousing

Service logistics is the complete end-to-end logistics management of inventories, facilities and labour associated with the distribution of Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul (MRO) and aftermarket products and materials.

For more information, please go to Returns and Parts Management

DHL has built a reputation as a strong market leader with safe and timely operations, while continuing to strive for new innovations to maximise fleet optimisation and increase efficiency.

For more information, please go to Logistics Solutions overview

If you would like to know more about industry solutions, please use our on-line contact form or speak to your regular DHL contact.