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06/12/2020

Bonding through values

DACHSER stands for a close, family-like bond among all employees. A set of core values forms the company’s DNA. And not only on paper: DACHSER values are part of everyday life with the company and are practiced as a matter of course. All around the world.

Connecting values - worldwide

It’s in times of crisis—when things we took for granted at work and in our private lives crumble overnight, when well-oiled supply chains start to go off track or even temporarily grind to a halt—that people pull closer together and develop a heightened awareness of their common bonds. We’ve seen it across all different levels: DACHSER employees not only understand our corporate values, they live and breathe them as well, applying them to themselves and to their roles within the network.

Employee sharings from around the world

Click through the image gallery and see what DACHSER employees around the world associate with our corporate values.

Openness and respect For Zoe Chow, Key Account Manager Fashion & Sports at Dachser Air & Sea Logistics Asia Pacific, “openness and respect” are a matter of course. “I’m part of the global Dachser family and enjoy working with everyone, regardless of where they come from, their religion, language, or gender.” As a member of the key account team, she’s in constant contact with colleagues and customers all over the world—currently at a physical distance but always striving to foster the sense of “together apart.” “Because I work with people from different cultures and backgrounds, I always endeavor to communicate as clearly as possible, no matter what channel I’m using. By asking questions and listening attentively, I gain a lot of valuable experience for my job. And not just that—it enriches and adds more color to my life as a whole every single day,” Chow says.

Entrepreneurship and the courage to innovate When Niklas Wintrich, a service employee at Dachser’s Koblenz logistics center, thinks about “entrepreneurship and the courage to innovate,” he links them with drive and progress. “It’s when your professional environment is undergoing change, which is truer today than ever before, that you really try to get involved and make a difference. It gives you inspiration and the strength to keep motivating and bettering yourself in all different ways, big and small.” He believes that these values really benefit and help him at present, and will continue to do so in the future, too. “In this globalized and connected world, it’s important to always stay one step ahead of the competition. That’s why innovation is so essential,” Wintrich says.

Integrative responsibility Priya Prabhu, Communication Coordinator Air & Sea Logistics at Dachser India, associates “integrative responsibility” with a saying that has always accompanied and guided her on her own personal journey: if you want to go quickly, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together. Prabhu believes that everyone contributes their own combination of expertise, experience, and skills. If these were integrated into shared work and projects, there would never be a shortage of better, creative ways to tackle a task. “This way, it’s not all up to just one individual and it minimizes the likelihood of bottlenecks, increases productivity, helps coordination across departments, and creates a good, healthy working environment in the team and organization,” Prabhu says.

Sustainability Mijal Paredes, Maritime Operations Dachser Chile, understands “sustainability” as “taking responsibility for the world in which we live; for example, by designing supply chains to keep the environmental impact as low as possible.” She explains that a specific way to achieve this is with LCL (less-than-container-load) offers where shipments are consolidated so that containers are used at maximum flexibility and efficiency. This could also be a way to deal with a temporary decline in shipment volume as result of the crisis.

Loyalty and commitment “Loyalty and commitment” are values that Alicia Graham, a sea freight specialist from Dachser Air & Sea Logistics in Atlanta, US, rates very highly right now. She believes that to deliver on their goals, people should always be reliable and truthful in their actions—and that applies both at and outside of work and all the more so when times are difficult: “You can’t build a dependable and lasting relationship on a ‘maybe’ or ‘only if it’s convenient for me’.”

Integrity and honesty Andreas Pedersen, Freight Forwarding Assistant in the charter department at Dachser Denmark in Hvidovre, sees “integrity and honesty” as important values in both his professional and private life. Something that Apple founder Steve Jobs once said resonates with him: “Sometimes when you innovate you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” Pedersen has adopted this idea: “The results we help achieve will always be better if we’re honest with ourselves and about the things that need to be changed. Even if we make mistakes in the process. I’m so grateful that we have a culture like this at Dachser. I am convinced that honesty, maintaining high moral standards, and integrity will always be rewarded in the end.”

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Contact Katrine Cheng

katrine.cheng@dachser.com

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