LOGISTICS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Logistics and Operations Management

DHL and UPS

Logistics and Operations Management

DHL and UPS

DHL Express Courier Service

DHL Express

The DHL Express is one of a division of German Logistic based company which is providing the service of international mail services all around the world. The DHL is the market leader in the delivery of mails by air and sea. The company was originally come into existence in the year of 1969 with an aim to deliver the documents between the states of San Francisco and of Honolulu. With the passage of time the country expanded its level of services throughout the glove in the ending years of 1970's.

This company was majorly interested in the intercontinental deliveries and the off shore deliveries. But the major success of its competitor company FedEx made the DHL to expand more and to move in other states of the United States in the starting of 1983. This move of the DHL was highly successful and they aggressively expanded into more countries which cannot be served by any of the other courier service, these countries included the North Korea, Vietnam, Iran, China, Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc (Musiolik, 2012, pp. 234-239).

GPS Tracking

DHL express says that when it actually comes to time, and when the customer wants that the delivery of its mail should reach on time to its destination at its agreed time than DHL Express is what should be trusted. DHL also gives the ability to its customers to “track and trace” the shipment which has been sent. This service falls in the category of Global Positioning System.

This is one of the most standard offers for the DHL Express customers. The DHL proclaims that as many of the courier companies merely tell their customers that the critical product which they have sent either has left the building or is somewhere in the route (Ogaja, 2011, pp. 48-52).

The Global Positioning System gives the ability to its customers to look at the map and can exactly figure out the exact and accurate location of the shipment sent. DHL has also introduced DHL'S SAME DAY NEW TRACKING SYSTEM, which will not only give the customers to see their shipment travelling along map on the travelling journey to reach its destination in the real time but will also make the customers see the approximate time in which the shipment will be reaching its destination point (Wang, 2009, pp. 109-114).

DHL Transport Management System

In moving the products from the manufacturing plants to the ware houses, between the national, regional facilities, and international can actually in a way represent almost more than quarter of the total cost of the logistics. Adding into the cost the international cost of sourcing and also the final distribution to the store or even to the end customers can make the cost go rocket high. Transportation management at DHL is a solution provider to this problem. This service at DHK says that it gives its customers the resources and the visibility which is needed by the customers ...