Facility Location of DHL: Selecting the Leipzig/Halle Site and Building Operations Facilities

            
 
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Case Code : OPER099
Case Length : 19 Pages
Period : 2004-2011
Organization : Deutsche Post DHL (DHL)
Pub Date : 2011
Teaching Note :Not Available
Countries : Europe
Industry : Logistics

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Company Background

The history of DHL can be traced back to the 1970s. Larry Hillblom (Hillblom), a law student at the University of California, with little money...

Establishing the hub at Leipzig

In 2005, Deutsche Post approved the decision to construct a new operating hub in central Europe as DHL could not further expand its night-flight operations at the existing DHL hub in Brussels, Belgium...

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Locational Advantages

Located in the heart of Europe and equipped with outstanding transport facilities, the Leipzig hub offered the ideal logistics launch pad for companies operating internationally, experts observed...

Other Advantages

According to experts, there were many advantages in choosing Leipzig/ Halle as the site for the new hub, the greatest being the location advantages...

Emphasis on Technology

Dynamic route planning was commonly regarded as complex problems in which the delivery situation evolved intensely...

Transport Facilities

Ever since DHL had transferred most of the workload from its previous European hub in Brussels to Leipzig/Halle, the new hub had been in full operation...

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