Working alongside our mainstream service offering and drawing on the same assets and network infrastructure, these specialist services are often unique within their niche markets and bring our customers all the benefits of a specialised service provided by a global supply chain services expert.

Environmental Compliance Solutions

As companies we are increasingly compelled to reduce our environmental impacts, driven by a combination of customer and shareholder pressure, burgeoning legislation and competitive pressure. DHL is engaged in a wide range of projects in this area. We can ensure your compliance with complex rules and regulations and, where appropriate, improve your supply chain with a range of cost-effective and innovative environmental services.

Our experts are able to review any aspect of your supply chain to identify the priorities from legislative compliance (WEEE, packaging, batteries etc.) and the use of less environmentally damaging logistics, to an environmental redesign of the supply chain with the objective of achieving carbon neutral status.

Our WEEE and RoHS compliance services have been designed for brand owners, importers and retailers of electrical and electronic equipment to ensure compliance with the current and impending requirements of the EU directives on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and on the Restriction on the use of certain Hazardous Substances in new electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS).

The WEEE services not only help collect and recycle end of life products on behalf of our customers but also help with registration, weight data collection and auditing, obligation calculation and regulatory reporting. DHL's RoHS services help businesses ensure that products placed on the European market comply with the material restrictions and reporting obligations.

DHL's Packaging compliance services help businesses ensure compliance with the Packaging Waste and Essential Requirements Regulations. In various countries we can examine your supply chain, business, products or processes to ensure that your business is compliant with the legislation, provide assistance with packaging data collection, auditing and reporting, and seek to identify savings in compliance costs through packaging optimisation and process redesign.

For more information on our environmental services and how we can support your business, please go to DHL Environmental Compliance Solutions.

Procurement Solutions

4CX is a procurement and logistics partnership between Exel, the global leader in supply chain management and 4C, a leading procurement solutions company. 4CX provides an integrated sourcing and supply chain solution that enables clients to achieve substantial cost savings on a wide range of non-core goods. This encompasses everything from promotional materials, to consumables, to workwear, operational spares and other goods not-for-resale.

By taking a procurement-led approach to the end-to-end supply chain, 4CX is able to deliver significant cost savings from the efficient purchasing of goods and services while effectively managing the risks associated with global sourcing.

By leveraging DHL's global reach and supply chain expertise combined with 4C's unparalleled global purchasing scale, 4CX is able to:

• deliver cost savings through minimised risk, smarter procurement and an optimised supply chain
• enable customers to focus on their core business instead of trying to handle indirect, non-core expenditure
• offer a global supply chain network with knowledge of suppliers in local and emerging economies
• reduce the costs and risks associated with sourcing non-core goods from new geographies, including emerging markets
• manage tenders for specific and individual projects on the customer's behalf
• co-ordinate management of a transaction at every stage of the supply chain, ensuring that quality and lead-times are managed and monitored
• maximise customer revenues by meeting delivery promises through superior reliability
• deliver local market requirements such as customs and compliance management
• procure goods that enable customers to fulfil their corporate social responsibility requirements, an area of increasing stakeholder scrutiny.

Property Services

Increasingly, companies around the globe are seeking broader and more integrated supply chain solutions from fewer providers. Through its full service real estate group, DHL is in a unique position to offer customers a full array of operational as well as property-related solutions - from site searches to complete turnkey real estate development services. We are a single source for our customers, with the expertise to handle all aspects of the real estate solution, including:

• Build-to-suit development
• Leasing
• Property/asset management
• Feasibility analysis
• Planning and design
• Financing
• Construction management
• Property disposition

From inception to completion, our experience and integrated services mean we can consistently deliver real estate solutions that provide you with the right facility in the right location, at the right price, and the right time.

Publishing Solutions

DHL and its subsidiary companies have been providing dedicated logistics solutions to the publishing sector for more than half a century. DHL understands that in the world of publishing no two customers are the same. Our wide range of solutions reflects the unique requirements of each customer.

DHL's publishing operations span the globe, covering books, magazines, newspapers, journals and mail.

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