Strategic Management BSc (Hons) Supply Chain Management with Logistics University of Huddersfield Lena Sørensen Student number: U1364963 November 30‚ 2014 Tutor: Andrew Jenkins Word count: 2657 Sustainable Competitive Advantage in DHL: For a transport and logistics company of your choice‚ critically discuss how the company has attempted to achieve sustainable advantage. Executive summary: This report is about how sustainable competitive advantage in DHL can be analysed‚ through various
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DHL International GmbH - Strategic SWOT Analysis Review Published on 20th March 2014 DHL International GmbH (DHL) provides international express‚ air and ocean freight‚ road and rail transportation‚ contract logistics and international mail services to its customers. It provides customized solutions and integrated services for the management and transport of goods‚ information‚ letters‚ and payments. DHL also offers shipping management‚ mail services‚ worldwide dispatch of business mail‚ worldwide
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but on the US market the Express division DHL is only the number 3. The stratgic plan for the Express division DHL of Deutsche World Post Net explores how DHL can become the leader on the US market within the five years. Within the strategic plan the internal and external environment are reviewed and evaluated to define a grand strategy to accomplish the goal. A SWOT analysis shows strenghts‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ threats‚ and trends of the DHL operation on the US market. The generic strategie
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Introduction Company: Deutsche Post DHL Category: Express Air Shipping / Supply Chain(3PL) / Global Forwarding Sector: Transport‚ Shipping & Supply Chain(3PL) Slogan: Excellence Simply Delivered USP: World market leader in Sea and Air mail Segment: Global‚ regional & local customers who need express logistics and 3PL services Target Group: Price conscious customers who require a reliable level of service DHL exist in over 220 countries across the world‚ making
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DHL SWOT Analysis SWOT analysis is an instrument for auditing an association and its atmosphere . It is the initial step of planning and assists marketers to focus on vital matters . SWOT stands for strengths ‚ weaknesses ‚ opportunities ‚ and threats . Strengths and weaknesses are internal aspects while opportunities and threats are external aspects . A SWOT analysis is the procedure a business entity goes through in an attempt to recognize key regions for business opportunities . Focusing
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Case analysis of DHL DHL was founded in1969 and has a high performance in the worldwide market. As the important strategic significance and high margin of U.S. express and logistics market‚ DHL attempted to entry the market since 1983. The value-add services of DHL DHL offers international logistic services. DHL provide three parts of value-add service as Assembly‚ Kitting and Co-packing Services; Pre-retail Services and other services. Assembly‚ Kitting and Co-packing Services include Product
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2004:294 CIV MASTER’S THESIS Performance Measurement at DHL Solutions Towards an improved performance measurement system consisting of relevant and well-designed measures TOMAS STEFENSON MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAMME Department of Business Administration and Social Sciences Division of Industrial Logistics 2004:294 CIV • ISSN: 1402 - 1617 • ISRN: LTU - EX - - 04/294 - - SE PREFACE “Most company performance yardsticks [i.e. measures] are too short‚ too rigid‚ or used more like a teacher’s ruler
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DHL was founded in 1969 in San Francisco by 3 entrepreneurs Adrian Daly‚ Larry Hellbox and Robert Lynn. They started shipping documents from San Francisco to Honolulu and now ship internationally to 220 countries worldwide. The DHL family offers an unrivalled portfolio of logistics products and solutions ranging from domestic and international parcel delivery to international express‚ road‚ air and ocean freight to end-to-end supply chain management. There are thousands of logistics companies operating
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DHL LogisticS Mbab 5P07 ------------------------------------------------- professor Yoogalingam Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Literature Review of Facility Location Decisions 5 Implications for DHL 10 Recommendation 13 Conclusions 14 Bibliography 15 Executive Summary The following analysis will take an in-depth look at the
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important of the U.S. market to the global express industry‚ what would you recommend to DHL for changing its position in the United States? According to the situation‚ U.S. Postal Service is a monopoly on delivery all non-urgent letters‚ is the largest provider. Also FedEx and UPS have 78% of the parcel market. To face the monopoly competition‚ we recommend DHL can change the position to services SME. Moreover DHL is the market leader of logistics in U.S. They can utilize their logistics power to promote
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