Vitesco Technologies, a leading powertrain company has formed a new strategic partnership with DHL Supply Chain as its Lead Logistics Partner (LLP). This is part of its focus on increasing sustainability, resilience and efficiency in logistics.
As of March 2024, the logistics flows of Vitesco Technologies’ 12 European locations will be centrally managed by DHL through the LLP Center of Excellence in Warsaw, Poland. This corresponds to around 100,000 transport movements within the supply chain to the plants as well as from the plants to the customers – and thus accounts for about a third of Vitesco Technologies’ total freight volume.
Thomas Kirchermeier, Head of Supply Chain Management at Vitesco Technologies said, “The main driver of our business is the development and production of sustainable technologies for the mobility of tomorrow. We want to run this business in a CO2-neutral way by 2040. Sustainable logistics solutions are an important step along this path, which we will be taking together with DHL Supply Chain in the future.”
The big advantage of the new logistics concept is that, as a Lead Logistics Partner, DHL Supply Chain bundles the freight volumes of numerous large companies to generate synergy effects and thus achieves new potentials for optimisation. The logistics experts make use of the entire market of freight carriers and forwarding agents and can provide the fastest, safest, most environmentally friendly, and most cost-effective transport solutions. This benefits Vitesco Technologies and all customers: supply chains become more robust and more reliable.
What’s interesting is that the central freight management by a leading global logistics provider such as DHL also enables the maximum transparency of transport routes – which not only benefits efficiency, but also reduces CO2- emissions. This is achieved by combining deliveries that were previously handled separately or by increasingly relying on climate-neutral means of transportation. This is where Vitesco Technologies’ expertise in the field of electromobility meets DHL’s practical experience, as the company operates the largest fleet of electric vehicles within the logistics sector.
Hendrik Venter, CEO DHL Supply Chain Europe, Middle East & Africa said, “The first joint pilot projects have already shown that we can leverage considerable synergies through a seamlessly integrated supply chain. The cost savings and efficiencies that we have already been able to realize together with Vitesco Technologies are now paving the way for further global growth. With our focus on a consistent standardisation and orchestration of logistics processes, we want to further minimise CO2-emissions, maximise the efficiency of supply chains, and improve their resilience in the coming years.”
