{"id":1778,"date":"2020-10-29T20:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/are-you-thinking-about-a-freight-forwarding-partner-do-not-search-for-size\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T10:28:39","slug":"are-you-thinking-about-a-freight-forwarding-partner-do-not-search-for-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/are-you-thinking-about-a-freight-forwarding-partner-do-not-search-for-size\/","title":{"rendered":"ARE YOU&nbsp;THINKING ABOUT A&nbsp;FREIGHT FORWARDING PARTNER? DO&nbsp;NOT SEARCH FOR&nbsp;SIZE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Not size, but&nbsp;flexibility and&nbsp;reliability are, in&nbsp;our&nbsp;experience, a&nbsp;decisive factor in&nbsp;choosing a&nbsp;partner for&nbsp;freight forwarding.<\/strong> However, we&nbsp;are&nbsp;convinced that the&nbsp;family character and&nbsp;size of&nbsp;our&nbsp;company is&nbsp;rather an advantage in&nbsp;the&nbsp;competition. Read in&nbsp;our&nbsp;blog what specifically a&nbsp;smaller company has an advantage in.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Organizational structure<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In our&nbsp;company, one of&nbsp;the&nbsp;main advantages is&nbsp;a&nbsp;simple and&nbsp;clear organizational structure. It&nbsp;does not surprise anyone that our&nbsp;owner is&nbsp;part of&nbsp;a&nbsp;team and&nbsp;has a&nbsp;close relationship with&nbsp;employees. As a&nbsp;result, anonymity is&nbsp;lost and&nbsp;employees feel more important about their work performance. This makes it&nbsp;easier to&nbsp;create a&nbsp;friendly atmosphere for&nbsp;small working groups. At&nbsp;the&nbsp;same time, the&nbsp;natural authority of&nbsp;leaders is&nbsp;strengthened, who can&nbsp;take a&nbsp;&#8220;shovel in&nbsp;their hand&#8221;&nbsp;when needed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Management process, decision making<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dynamics, high adaptability to&nbsp;changing demand conditions, and&nbsp;flexibility are&nbsp;the&nbsp;main advantages of&nbsp;smaller companies. Strong centralization of&nbsp;management functions in&nbsp;the&nbsp;hands of&nbsp;the&nbsp;owner enables Swida Innovative flexibility, speed, entrepreneurship, and&nbsp;high innovation with&nbsp;a&nbsp;customer orientation. <strong>By constantly educating and&nbsp;implementing the&nbsp;latest procedures, we&nbsp;are&nbsp;changing the&nbsp;perception that well-established processes are&nbsp;the&nbsp;domain of&nbsp;large companies.<\/strong> Proof of&nbsp;this is&nbsp;the&nbsp;fact that in&nbsp;less than 5 years of&nbsp;our&nbsp;existence, we&nbsp;have become a&nbsp;TOP growing company in&nbsp;Slovakia. We&nbsp;are&nbsp;aware that well-tuned processes need constant optimization, and&nbsp;therefore our&nbsp;managers are&nbsp;constantly challenged with&nbsp;new tasks and&nbsp;finding more effective solutions in&nbsp;practice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Personal development, growth of&nbsp;employee quality<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&nbsp;work with&nbsp;us, you&nbsp;usually have a&nbsp;very diverse scope, and&nbsp;learn a&nbsp;lot from&nbsp;the&nbsp;very beginning. We&nbsp;are&nbsp;convinced that quality training and&nbsp;quick immediate experience create the&nbsp;most resilient employees. Although we&nbsp;are&nbsp;more of&nbsp;a&nbsp;young and&nbsp;dynamic company, we&nbsp;are&nbsp;aware of&nbsp;the&nbsp;need to&nbsp;invest in&nbsp;employee training. In&nbsp;this case, our&nbsp;management does not save on&nbsp;investments and&nbsp;it&nbsp;is&nbsp;comparable to&nbsp;corporations. An interesting trend in&nbsp;recent years is&nbsp;the&nbsp;availability of&nbsp;online courses, webinars, or sophisticated tutorials, thanks to&nbsp;which we&nbsp;can&nbsp;invest in&nbsp;education very effectively and&nbsp;continuously.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Financial resources, cash flow<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our financial possibilities are&nbsp;not unlimited, but&nbsp;due to&nbsp;the&nbsp;size of&nbsp;the&nbsp;company and&nbsp;the&nbsp;length of&nbsp;operation, we&nbsp;are&nbsp;financially very solidly secured. We&nbsp;can&nbsp;allocate the&nbsp;necessary resources to&nbsp;investments very quickly and&nbsp;thanks to&nbsp;the&nbsp;fact that we&nbsp;pay 99.9% (the&nbsp;0.1% reserve is&nbsp;due to&nbsp;the&nbsp;human factor) of&nbsp;our&nbsp;liabilities always on&nbsp;time, we&nbsp;have high credit between partners, suppliers, and&nbsp;banks. It&nbsp;supports a&nbsp;number of&nbsp;Solvency Certificates that we&nbsp;have. We&nbsp;are&nbsp;especially proud of&nbsp;our&nbsp;Diamond Award, which we&nbsp;received as part of&nbsp;the&nbsp;independent evaluation of&nbsp;Slovak business companies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Innovation<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many small-family business owners tell you&nbsp;they&nbsp;could never start a&nbsp;business in&nbsp;an area that requires high innovation. This is&nbsp;based on&nbsp;the&nbsp;nature of&nbsp;the&nbsp;high allocation of&nbsp;financial resources that small companies do&nbsp;not have at&nbsp;the&nbsp;beginning of&nbsp;their business. Our&nbsp;path was exactly the&nbsp;opposite. From&nbsp;the&nbsp;beginning, <strong>we decided that innovation was so&nbsp;important to&nbsp;our&nbsp;kind of&nbsp;business that it&nbsp;would be&nbsp;part of&nbsp;our&nbsp;DNA<\/strong>, and&nbsp;that&#8217;s&nbsp;why we&nbsp;put it&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;name of&nbsp;our&nbsp;company. We&nbsp;know that when choosing a&nbsp;partner, the&nbsp;client often asks about innovations and&nbsp;whether the&nbsp;company can&nbsp;innovate internally or must buy them. A&nbsp;good company has an internal IT&nbsp;team that can&nbsp;create a&nbsp;user-friendly operating system tailored to&nbsp;the&nbsp;needs of&nbsp;not only the&nbsp;company but&nbsp;especially its customers. We&nbsp;follow many examples in&nbsp;this and&nbsp;our&nbsp;IT&nbsp;internal team has the&nbsp;highest ambitions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Market information, marketing<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In any good company, investment in&nbsp;marketing grows hand in&nbsp;hand with&nbsp;the&nbsp;success of&nbsp;the&nbsp;company. It&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;same with&nbsp;us. We&nbsp;are&nbsp;convinced that the&nbsp;power of&nbsp;communication is&nbsp;growing today and&nbsp;thanks to&nbsp;constant contact with&nbsp;the&nbsp;customer we&nbsp;have enough information about the&nbsp;market, which brings us important insights into marketing or building long-term communication strategies. <strong>Efficiency and&nbsp;optimization are&nbsp;the&nbsp;most important in&nbsp;our&nbsp;marketing activities.<\/strong> In&nbsp;this regard, we&nbsp;turned to&nbsp;an external partner &#8211;&nbsp;a&nbsp;communication agency, which helps us primarily with&nbsp;online marketing communication. We&nbsp;do&nbsp;not want to&nbsp;invest money headlong, but&nbsp;we&nbsp;have what we&nbsp;need for&nbsp;promotion. We&nbsp;believe that even with&nbsp;this step, we&nbsp;are&nbsp;gradually succeeding in&nbsp;blurring the&nbsp;differences in&nbsp;the&nbsp;brand building between us and&nbsp;our&nbsp;competitors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Customer approach<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are&nbsp;aware that as a&nbsp;small company we&nbsp;cannot offer comprehensive services &#8211;&nbsp;warehouses, ships, planes, regular transports. However, we&nbsp;can&nbsp;bring great flexibility and&nbsp;narrow specialization, which is&nbsp;demanded by&nbsp;more and&nbsp;more clients. For&nbsp;those of&nbsp;you&nbsp;for&nbsp;whom the&nbsp;image of&nbsp;the&nbsp;company is&nbsp;an important element in&nbsp;decision-making, large internationally known companies will always be&nbsp;a&nbsp;great attraction. If it&nbsp;suits you&nbsp;that your logistics partner does not need the&nbsp;reputation of&nbsp;large companies, our&nbsp;dynamic company will be&nbsp;a&nbsp;good choice. In&nbsp;our&nbsp;business, the&nbsp;customer is&nbsp;not just some entity, listed under the&nbsp;customer number. It&nbsp;is&nbsp;not uncommon for&nbsp;our&nbsp;employees, who bring customized freight forwarding solutions, to&nbsp;be&nbsp;in&nbsp;contact with&nbsp;the&nbsp;client on&nbsp;a&nbsp;daily basis throughout the&nbsp;duration of&nbsp;the&nbsp;relationship. For&nbsp;us, this is&nbsp;a&nbsp;critical element of&nbsp;growth. Perfect knowledge of&nbsp;our&nbsp;customer and&nbsp;a&nbsp;special approach to&nbsp;his needs. As we&nbsp;are&nbsp;a&nbsp;small family business, success multiplies among colleagues, and&nbsp;failure is&nbsp;shared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Become a&nbsp;part of&nbsp;our&nbsp;story and&nbsp;send us your <a href=\"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/kontakt\/\">contact<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/happycustomer.swida.sk\/\">calculation request<\/a>. In&nbsp;this particular case, it&nbsp;is&nbsp;best to&nbsp;verify that size of&nbsp;the&nbsp;company does not matter so&nbsp;much.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not size, but&nbsp;flexibility and&nbsp;reliability are, in&nbsp;our&nbsp;experience, a&nbsp;decisive factor in&nbsp;choosing a&nbsp;partner for&nbsp;freight forwarding. However, we&nbsp;are&nbsp;convinced that the&nbsp;family character and&nbsp;size of&nbsp;our&nbsp;company is&nbsp;rather an advantage in&nbsp;the&nbsp;competition. Read in&nbsp;our&nbsp;blog what specifically a&nbsp;smaller company has an advantage in. Organizational structure In&nbsp;our&nbsp;company, one of&nbsp;the&nbsp;main advantages is&nbsp;a&nbsp;simple and&nbsp;clear organizational structure. It&nbsp;does not surprise anyone that our&nbsp;owner is&nbsp;part of&nbsp;a&nbsp;team and&nbsp;has a&nbsp;close relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}