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DHL Supply Chain strengthens presence with new facility in Western Sydney
DHL Supply Chain Australia( DHL) has officially opened its newest warehouse facility in Erskine Park, New South Wales, marking a significant milestone in its commitment to supporting the evolving logistics requirements of Australia’ s technology and automotive sectors.
The 21,078 square metre warehouse, strategically located in Western Sydney, enhances DHL’ s national distribution capabilities to best serve customer requirements and offers proximity to the upcoming DHL transport hub.
The facility offers ambient storage with selective racking and block stack areas, eight recessed docks, six on-grade doors and a mezzanine for rework and value-added services. Examples of built-in measures include several energy and resource efficient features such as 256 kWp rooftop solar panels that reduce grid electricity reliance, rainwater harvesting for non-potable uses, LED lighting with efficient controls to reduce electricity consumption and EV charging.
Javier Bilbao, CEO, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific, said:“ Australia is a key market for us and we remain committed to supporting the country’ s growth, including its technology and automotive sectors. On the technology part, businesses in Australia have doubled their spending on data centres in just six months last year and we have solutions that can help them. Likewise, we see growth in the consumer demand for the automotive sector, with nearly 99,000 new vehicles sold in 2025 and increasing aftermarket requirements.”
“ Our Strategy 2030 focuses on delivering value to our customers and we’ ve been investing ahead of the curve in the region to strengthen supply chain resiliency and flexibility by expanding warehouse capacity and future-proofing logistics centres,” Bilbao added.
Report finds APAC enterprises facing Agentic AI technical challenges
Dynatrace, a leading AI-powered observability platform, has released regional findings of The Pulse of Agentic AI 2026. The inaugural survey of 919 senior global leaders responsible for Agentic AI implementation reveals that enterprises are not stalling because they doubt AI, but because they cannot yet govern, validate, or safely scale autonomous systems.
For the 200 APAC leaders surveyed, APAC-based organisations face the greatest technical challenges of any region surveyed( 60 %) for Agentic AI.
APAC-focused findings include: respondents in the Americas( 51 %) and EMEA( 47 %), as well as security validations( 45 %) versus 34 % for EMEA and 41 % for the Americas.
• APAC organisations prioritise end-user and customer adoption and satisfaction more( 43 %) than AMER organisations( 39 %).
• For organisations in APAC, improving internal efficiency is a greater priority for their Agentic AI projects( 56 %) than for those in the Americas( 49 %) and EMEA( 48 %).
• Monitoring and training data quality during Agentic AI development is the top use of observability( 74 %)
for APAC organisations, as well as monitoring integration with existing systems in implementation( 64 %) and continuous monitoring of agent performance in operations( 65 %).
• APAC organisations are most likely to deploy conversational and Generative AI( 77 %) compared to other regions.
“ Agentic AI is becoming intrinsic to digital operations, but as the data shows, the ROI of these projects risks being hindered without stronger technical investment and initiatives,” said James McCready, VP APAC at Dynatrace.
• APAC places higher ROI expectations on Agentic AI for cybersecurity and data processing and reporting, but lower expectations for use in supply chain and logistics compared to AMER and Europe.
• For validating Agentic AI, respondents in APAC prioritise data quality checks at a higher percentage( 56 %) than
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