DHL Completes Hub Automation at Riverside Facility.Key Benefits Include Increased Letter and Package Throughput and Greater Package Visibility PLANTATION, Fla. -- DHL DHL abbr. 1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters 2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature , the world's leading global express delivery and logistics company, has completed the automation of its West Coast Distribution Facility in Riverside, Calif. The auto sort system upgrades now in place will allow DHL to increase letter-and-package throughput and provide customers with greater track-and-trace capabilities. Key customer benefits of the automation effort include greater letter-and-package visibility through the auto sort system's track-and-trace features as well as increased speed in the handling and processing of shipments. With the transition to auto sort functions, package throughput will increase by 28 percent. Letter-handling capabilities will improve by 67 percent. The automation of the 262,000-sq.-ft. facility is part of DHL's comprehensive $160 million hub investment program. The state-of-the-art equipment at the facility includes shoe-sort and tilt-tray systems, loaders, unloaders, singulators, dimensional and image scanners, scan tunnels, and video coding Video coding is the field in electrical engineering and computer science that deals with finding efficient coding formats and algorithms for digital video. Video data usually not only contains visual information but also audio. . "Our hub automation initiative is part of our continuing efforts to provide DHL customers with a first-class customer experience," said John Cameron John Cameron may refer to:
In addition to improved package processing speed See MHz. and system-wide shipment accuracy, hub automation adds throughput capacity to the DHL network. Key facts about the West Coast Distribution Facility: * The facility has a base footprint of 262,000 square feet with an additional 128,000 square feet of mezzanine mez·za·nine n. 1. A partial story between two main stories of a building. 2. The lowest balcony in a theater or the first few rows of that balcony. work space and 14,000 square feet of office space. * The facility's upgraded automated systems can process more than 50,000 pieces per hour / 125,000 per day. * The facility's sophisticated automated package tracking system is linked via high-speed communication networks to DHL's Global Data Centers, providing complete package status visibility to customers in California, across the U.S., and around the world. The region currently served by the DHL Riverside West Coast air and ground hub includes the Southwest U.S. as well as an expanded DHL footprint for one-day ground services across California and into Nevada and Arizona. About DHL At DHL, Customer Service is back in shipping. Our mission is to provide the most flexible, personable PERSONABLE. Having the capacities of a person; for example, the defendant was judged personable to maintain this action. Old Nat. Brev. 142. This word is obsolete. and enjoyable experience in the shipping industry for our customers. DHL is the global market leader of the international express and logistics industry, specializing in providing innovative and customized solutions from a single source. DHL offers expertise in express, air and ocean freight, overland o·ver·land adj. Accomplished, traversing, or passing over the land instead of the ocean: an overland journey; an overland route. adv. transport, and contract logistic lo·gis·tic also lo·gis·ti·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to symbolic logic. 2. Of or relating to logistics. [Medieval Latin logisticus, of calculation solutions as well as international mail services, combined with worldwide coverage and an in-depth understanding of local markets. DHL's international network links more than 220 countries and territories worldwide with over 285,000 employees dedicated to providing fast and reliable services that exceed customers' expectations. Founded in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in 1969, DHL is a Deutsche Post Deutsche Post AG (ISIN: DE0005552004, LSE: DPO) is a German post, logistics and courier headquartered in Bonn, previously the German state-owned mail monopoly. It has 520,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of € 60. World Net brand. For more information on DHL, please visit www.dhl.com. |
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