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This 4 page paper looks at some different influences and actions seen within DHL, written in 4 parts, the first part looks at the outsourcing that takes place at DHL, the second part considers international operation and the company's plans for expansion the third part of the paper looks at importing and exporting by DHL and the last part discusses the influence of globalization. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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has provided outsourcing for other businesses in terms of logistics, it also outsources some functions. For example, DHL Express in Singapore has outsourced its production and delivery of business documents
to Australian company ConnXion (Australasian Business Intelligence, 2005). This may be seen as a small example. A more significant outsourcing strategy is one that is currently being implemented in
the US. It has been announced that the company are planning on outsourcing the domestic airlift services for DHL Express (Fabey, 2008). The company to provide the outsourcing is the
competitor UPS, making this a controversial move (Fabey, 2008). The contract that will be ten years in length is projected at costing a total of $10 billion, and saving DHL
$1.3 billion over the ten year period (Fabey, 2008). However, although this outsourcing agreement is proposed it is not certain that it will go ahead, there is political opposition with
Ted Strickland, the governor of Ohio where many jobs will be lost as a result of the agreement is calling for an investigation under anti trust laws and union are
threatening to try and block the deal (Fabey, 2008). This is an outsourcing agreement that is part of a restructuring of the US Express business which has been under
performing for sometime (DHL, 2008). Part b - International operations DHL is already an intentional business, it has a global network which links more than 220 countries supported
by more than 520,000 employees (DHL, 2008). The reason for the outsouricng seen on part a is so that DHL is able to concentrate on its international shipments and focus
on increasing this area of business (Fabey, 2008). The company does have plans to increase growth; this is focused on organic
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