Strategies
STRATEGIES
- Opportunities
- Strategic Alliances, Mergers, and Acquisitions numerous, Product Improvments and innovations
Internal Analysis Part 2
Main Competitors
- Strategic Alliances/Contracts, Mergers, and Acquisitions with Pharmaceutical companies
- Expansion of e-Commerce and Development of e-Payments
- First-Mover Advantage with Global Serialization
- Threats
- Natural Disasters, Currency Fluctuations, Substitutions
External Analysis
- Political:
- Currency fluctuations
- Wars/Conflicts
- Economical
- EU and US overall GDP slow growth
- Increase in e-Commerce market
- Strengths:
- Reputation, economies of scale, wide product range
About DHL
About
- Created in 1969, but acquired by Deutsch Post Ag in 1998.
- Composed of four (4) divisions:
- Express
- Parcel-Post-e-Commerce
- Supply Chain Management
- Global, Freight Forwarding
- Majority of business done by gaining contracts, acquisitions, and entering into partnerships
- Threat of entry = low
- Equipment cost/distribution channels
- Threat of Suppliers = low
- Forward integration
- Threat of buyers = moderate
- Switching costs
- No differentiation
Internal Analysis
Threats
- Weaknesses:
- More expensive, lack of complete liability coverage
- Threat of substitutes = low-to-mod
- E-mail, online advertising
- "DIY" supply-chain management
- Threat of rivalry = high
- undifferentiated products
- Exit costs can be high
More Threats
Financial Analysis
Decline in net income by 21%
Return on Assets remained steady, but in the middle of its main competitors.
WACC = 8.5%, lower than FedEx and UPS
Cash Flows remained positive
Main Competitors
All in pharmaceuticals, express, freight, and supply chain.
- Socio cultural
- Environmentally-conscious countries
- Corruption a norm or not
- Technological
- Software easy to duplicate
- Environmental/Legal
- Weather -> disruptions
- Drug serialization
Group 9
Zara Abrami
Ann John
Sarah Sanchez
Karim Vega
Raul Jaik