FORMING KEY PARTNERSHIPS
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FORMING KEY PARTNERSHIPS
In order to achieve mutual success , GEODIS has formed over 500 global partnerships . In particular , the firm has established a key relationship with the Commercial Relocation Network ( CRN ). “ Our collaboration with CRN has granted us access to specialists everywhere in the US . Be it in California , Arkansas , Seattle , New York or Miami , we have access to people who really know our business and know what our specifics are – it ’ s very valuable to us ,” says Mahler . “ In general , we have lots of partners .
Some are very local , while some are global and are capable of carrying goods from Singapore to Mexico . We really have all sizes of partnership .”
The importance of establishing significant relationships with other companies to achieve mutual success is therefore considered a top priority at GEODIS . “ Due to the way we operate our procurement activity , we ’ ve started to move away from the customer / supplier relationship . We don ’ t think ‘ I ’ m your customer so you go and execute .’ Or ’ I ’ m your supplier so you pay or I don ’ t
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