Your alternative to the conventional
DLS designs practical distribution for your business, across South Africa and cross-border into Southern Africa.
03Reach and record
Highly customised secondary distribution, including independent outlets and rural destinations across the region.
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DLS designs practical distribution around your business and partners with you on it. A family-like operation in an era of digital impersonality, where personal accountability is foundational.
Our process
Your distribution patterns, operational constraints and the places deliveries go wrong, analysed before a rate is quoted.
Distribution designed around your dispatch reality.
A named Customer Service Department agent as your primary point of contact.
Working knowledge of retailer SLA requirements, backdoor protocols and DC receiving.
Multi-step quality control on every POD and GRV before it enters the system.
Accurate documentation is what lets you invoice, and invoicing is what gets you paid.
05Scale and care
Our supply chain specialists are not salespeople. The process is built on data, transparency and mutual trust. If DLS isn't the right fit, we say so.
A thorough analysis of your distribution patterns, operational needs and constraints, led by supply chain specialists.
Detailed costings simulated from your data and presented in full, including the challenges as well as the opportunities.
Rates, insurance and service levels worked through openly. If DLS is not the right fit, we say so.
Onboarding into the DLS operating rhythm: systems, documentation standards, contacts and, where applicable, API integration.
Live distribution supported by KPI reporting and regular review, so the solution keeps adapting as your business changes.
Each of these exists because a client needed it. None of them is sold in isolation from the others.
Consolidated road freight for mixed, palletised and break-bulk cargo moving between the major South African centres.
Backdoor and Distribution Centre deliveries into major retail and chain-store environments.
Distribution from South Africa into Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini.
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Smaller, time-sensitive consignments domestically and into the BNLS countries.
Dedicated vehicles and full truck loads for volume, project and route-specific requirements.
A selection of the reviews clients have left DLS on Google, shown in their own words.
In 2016 Sybrand Engelbrecht was asked by a client to help manage their dispatch and distribution.
What they needed, and the meticulous operational control it demanded, became the foundation of the company.
That client is still with us.
Next step
We will look at how you actually dispatch, and say honestly whether DLS is the right fit.
