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DHL Supply Chain is a division
Division (business)
A division of a business entity is a portion of that business that operates under a different name. It is the equivalent of a corporation or limited liability company obtaining a fictitious name or "doing business as" certificate and operating a business under that fictitious name...

 of Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post AG, operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL, is the world's largest logistics group. With its headquarters in Bonn, the corporation has 467,088 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of € 51.48 billion in 2010...

 providing contract logistics and value-added services.

History

On 14 December 2005 Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post AG, operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL, is the world's largest logistics group. With its headquarters in Bonn, the corporation has 467,088 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of € 51.48 billion in 2010...

 announced the completion of the acquisition of Exel
Exel
DHL Supply Chain is a division of Deutsche Post providing contract logistics and value-added services.- History :On 14 December 2005 Deutsche Post announced the completion of the acquisition of Exel plc, becoming the global No. 1 in air freight, ocean freight and contract logistics...

 plc, becoming the global No. 1 in air freight, ocean freight and contract logistics. When integrating Exel into its Logistics division, it added its well-known DHL brand acquired with the purchase of DHL Express
DHL Express
DHL Express is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post providing international express mail services. DHL is a world market leader in sea and air mail....

 to form the name DHL Exel Supply Chain. During 2009, Deutsche Post AG rebranded its trading name from "Deutsche Post World Net" to "Deutsche Post DHL" and subsequently dropped "Exel" from the Supply Chain branding.

Operations

DHL Supply Chain has two main businesses: its contract logistics business includes ground-based supply chain management services such as warehousing and distribution
Distribution (business)
Product distribution is one of the four elements of the marketing mix. An organization or set of organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user.The other three parts of the marketing mix are product, pricing,...

, assembly
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...

, and just-in-time services. Its freight management business includes airfreight and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and multimodal services (arrangement of freight transportation by a combination of road and rail).
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