GoTeach – better education and greater equality in education
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As one of the world’s largest employers with a high demand for qualified employees, Deutsche Post DHL promotes better education and educational systems. We have
partnered with the organisations Teach For All and sos Children’s Villages since 2010. Our
co-operation with these organisations is personified primarily by the voluntary commitment of our employees.
• Teach For All: The network currently includes organisations in 23 countries that
recruit outstanding university graduates to work as assistant teachers, known as
fellows, for two years in underprivileged schools. Deutsche Post DHL is supporting
Teach For All’s goal to expand the network to over 30 countries by the year 2013. In
addition, we are working closely with six country organisations in Argentina, Chile,
Germany, India, Peru and Spain. A further partnership in Brazil is planned for 2012.
• sos Children’s Villages: This partnership fosters the empowerment and employability of young people between 15 and 25. We guide them in their preparations for
their careers and provide them with initial work experience. Since 2011, we have
partnerships in Brazil, Madagascar, South Africa and Vietnam. The programmes
are tailored to the precise needs in each country in co-operation with the partner
organisation. Other countries are to follow.
• UPstairs: We offer our employees’ children the opportunity to earn a higher schoolleaving qualification or degree through scholarships. In the year under review,
60 scholarships were awarded in South Africa, Mexico, Indonesia and Romania. In
the year 2012, UPstairs will be introduced in at least 60 countries. We shall increase
the number of scholarships to over 1,000 by the year 2014.
Procurement
a.69 Procurement expenses, 2011
Volume: €9.1 billion
3 % Air fleet
7 % Production systems
8 % Network supplies
13 % Ground fleet
14 % it and communications
26 % Services
29 % Real estate
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Rise in expenditure
In the year under review, the Group centrally purchased goods and services having
a total value of approximately €9.1 billion (previous year: €8.5 billion). As in previous years, this figure does not include transport services, which are generally procured
separately by the divisions. However, the divisions received support from Procurement,
which was greater in 2011 than in previous years. Procurement works continuously to
reduce the Group’s expenditures and this includes providing support to the divisions to
make important investments cost-effectively.
Corporate Procurement, for instance, has been providing support in the area of
aviation since 2011, including involvement in the purchase of 18 new Airbus A300-600
aircraft. A further example is a master agreement for aircraft fuel, into which the department entered for European Air Transport, an express business and a Group subsidiary
operating out of the hub in Leipzig, Germany. The agreement reduces annual costs by
more than €1 million; the fuel can be called off as needed and fewer fuel transports
increase energy efficiency.
The procurement team supported the MAIL division in the reporting year with the
selection and order placement of new sorting solutions. Capacity and processing speed
increased by around 40 % as a result during the testing phase.
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Procurement
Procurement again focused on evaluating key suppliers and developing the Group’s
relationships with them. The new financing and payment model which we have been
testing in co-operation with a bank since 2010 in Germany and other European countries,
was expanded in the reporting year. The Group benefits from this new model because it
allows the divisions to optimise their working capital. Our suppliers also benefit as the
model opens up advantageous financing options.
Procurement makes progress as an internal service department
Procurement is a centralised function in the Group. The heads of Global Sourcing
and their 14 category managers work closely with regional procurement managers and
report to the head of Corporate Procurement. This allows us to bundle the Group’s
worldwide requirements and still meet the local needs of the business units.
Procurement is an internal service department, which we reorganised to some
extent in the reporting year. We reduced the number of procurement regions from five
to four and we now take greater advantage of regional co-operations. In our Global
Sourcing departments, we consolidated product categories and thereby leveraged synergies. Furthermore, a category manager was named for “new procurement services”.
These new services also include procurement services provided by our operating
divisions for customers with increasing support from Procurement. We offer integrated
procurement and logistics services, especially in our supply chain business. In 2011, we
expanded these services in all of our procurement regions.
Environmentally aware procurement
A “green team” of staff members from a number of regions and product categories
makes sure that the purchasing decisions made take account of environmental aspects.
In 2011, we completed a comprehensive analysis to determine how much of the
electricity consumed by the Group stems from renewable energy sources. The result
was around 40 % worldwide. The goal is to increase this figure considerably. The project
team has developed some initial national-level initiatives.
We had already introduced a global paper policy in 2010, stipulating that priority
was given to purchasing and using recycled paper. It applies to purchases of paper, paper
products, printed materials and packaging materials, and any external service provider
making purchases for the Group must also observe this policy. During the past years, the
share of recycled paper in use by the Group increased continuously. The Group has made
a commitment to use paper and paper products as efficiently and sparingly as possible.
Procurement also supports the divisions with recycling projects. For example, waste
recycling was optimised at 15 Global Mail locations in the Americas region.
Continuous modernisation of our vehicle fleet also plays an important role in protecting the environment. For example, 1,300 new low-emission Mercedes-Benz Sprinters
were utilised for parcel delivery. The 3.5-tonne vans run on low-emission Euro-5 engines.
Most of the vehicles purchased in the reporting year contribute to lower emissions,
including 250 lorries from Iveco, Mercedes-Benz, MAN and DAF. 154 new vehicles which
emit fewer pollutants were added to our express fleet in Mexico.
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