Thanks for the fantastic you guys have put in over the last few months when working towards getting all our containers in on time and without any issues, without your help and expertise we would have really struggled and our supply would have been greatly affected, as you know we have now gone national.
It really means a lot to me that the whole team at DDLS Shipping in millington go the extra mile when arranging our bookings from arranging shipments in the far east to calling us on the morning prior to delivery and also the follow up call to make sure all had gone to plan on time delivery.
It's important that we understand the needs of our customers and make their needs and interests our own. To do this, first we listen and then we advise. DDLS Shipping forwarding has quickly established a reputation among its customers for listening to the needs of our customers and going the extra mile to ensure our customers get more than what they need.
Trust is critical. Feedback from some of our customers would suggest their previous forwarders put more emphasis on customers being worthy of their trust than on being trustworthy themselves.
Our people consider trust to be a mandatory requirement to the development and sustainability of any working relationship with each other as well as our customers. We demonstrate our worthiness by being honest with customers, by being knowledgeable, being reliable and by being proactive.
We achieve this by valuing our partnerships with our carriers. We treat our carriers how we would like to be treated. We respect what they do for us and we work with them. We take their needs as seriously as those of our customers and work hard to assist them in meeting their targets. Having strong, positive and progressive partnerships with our carriers allows us the access to market that we need to ensure our customers benefit from not only competitive services but by having a depth of choice when it comes to carriers.
We demonstrate our worthiness by being honest with customers, by being knowledgeable, being reliable and by being proactive. We care about our development as a business and so the personal development of our people.
No one knows everything and there is never a point when anyone can truly say I know what I need to know to do my job well, no more learning for me! We care about our development as a business and so the personal development of the people that drive our business is of paramount importance. We invest in and fund the personal development of all of our people by providing monthly training sessions in areas such as, negotiation, managing emotions (think, feel, behave), execution, relationship building, time management, & team building.
While we make it a priority to understand the objectives and values of the organizations and businesses of our customers, it's of equal importance that we have an understanding about the person or persons we will be working with.
Every person is unique and each has their own preferred style of working and their own values. We put value on knowing what's important to the person we will be working with.
What would help them in their day to day? What would they like us to do differently to support them better? What frustrates them? What is their idea of an exceptional service?
We ask our customers these questions and their answers leave us in no doubt that to deliver any form of personal service we must understand the person at the end of the table, phone, or e-mail.
We make logistics personal by understanding, valuing and supporting the people we call our customers.