Case Study: DHL achieves up to 7% transportation cost savings and optimized network design with Blue Yonder

DHL Optimizes Transportation Processes to Deliver Success

DHL, the world’s largest express and logistics provider, needed faster, more flexible ways to optimize schedules, loads, service locations and consolidation across a vast global network. The company sought greater visibility and control over transportation and warehouse costs and service levels so it could replicate and evaluate scenarios, communicate results, and meet customer requirements more efficiently.

Using Blue Yonder’s network design, modeling and transportation-modeler solutions (Luminate Logistics/Planning), DHL modeled realistic scenarios, applied business rules and generated control reports to identify consolidation and routing opportunities. The work delivered measurable results—about 7% direct savings from better vehicle and stop optimization and roughly 15% cost savings for a major U.S. retail customer—while enabling tactical scenario comparisons, improved service-level tradeoffs and broader transportation-cost reductions.

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