Nespresso expands DHL partnership to serve UK and Ireland

Nestlé Nespresso and DHL Supply Chain will construct on its relationship, which dates again to 2014, with DHL now offering logistics and fulfilment services in the United kingdom and Republic of Eire (ROI).
From Q1 2023, DHL will cope with all warehousing across Nespresso’s ecommerce and community of retail boutiques in the British isles & ROI. Projected to deal with six million orders in yr one by itself, the Uk operation will be based in a focused omnichannel facility in Coventry.

The facility is geared up with state-of-the-artwork automation, with a BREEAM rating of ‘excellent’ many thanks to substantial environmental characteristics such as solar panels, electric cost details and air source heat pumps. The Irish operation will be primarily based in Dublin.

The existing partnerships concerning DHL and Nespresso in Italy, Brazil, Malaysia and Taiwan will also continue on. In all markets, DHL will control key aspects of the offer chain, including storage, warehousing and picking and packing of unique orders.

“I am delighted that we will be performing with DHL from up coming calendar year,” explained Jan Süßmeir, consumer care & companies director at Nespresso British isles & ROI.

“With their warehousing know-how, revolutionary automation technologies and a strong target on delivering sustainable operations and companies, DHL is the excellent offer chain partner for Nespresso British isles & Eire. Jointly, we will produce on Nespresso’s ambitions to even more build our top quality good quality of services and reach joint success.”

The blend of robotics and manual input throughout the procedure was a critical driver in Nespresso’s choice to husband or wife with DHL. To meet up with the brand’s formidable progress ideas, DHL will employ both equally ‘spider’ and collaborative robots to scale up at short observe, without having demanding extra labour. Robot pickers are ready to process up to 8 moments more rapidly than manual handling. In the meantime, colleagues at the web site will have the chance to upskill in automation administration.