Responsible for the task is the subsidiary DHL Sorting Center GmbH, which was founded in 2014 specifically for this purpose. “The parcel centers we are currently planning and building are highly efficient and technologically very advanced. They sort and distribute around 50,000 packages every hour,” says Frank Fisser, Managing Director of DHL Sorting Center GmbH. The DHL subsidiary has been working with Cideon since 2014 on digitalizing planning processes and increasing efficiency. The two companies have now jointly developed and implemented a concept on further digitalizing planning.
Planning efficiency for high-tech DHL parcel centers
Identifying potential and determining ROI in Discovery Workshops Cideon initially began working with the DHL subsidiary when it implemented Autodesk packages into DHL’s system.
“These represented key steps towards making processes more digital and achieving genuine workflow consistency. But there was so much potential for more efficiency, especially in the complex, interdisciplinary planning processes,” says Christof Ott, Principal Solution Manager at Cideon. Frank Fisser also saw the need and was open to options. But return on investments (ROI) were needed be-fore going ahead with any investment in large-scale software and digitalization changes. Cideon therefore provided Discovery Workshops. The first step here was to take stock of where the company currently stood, what could be optimized, and the monetary value of any optimization.
“It was about identifying the potential for efficiency gains through digital transformation and applying new methods. We went through the individual points in the process, and could say, for example, ‘We can reduce work-loads by half by using automation and highly efficient tools’. We were then able to determine the savings we would get from the solutions and how much we could then invest.”
