The Future of Supply Chain: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast

Highlights from their conversation include:What cargo.one is building (1:15)How Oliver and Moritz started two businesses together (2:18)cargo.one’s ideal customer profile (5:49)How air freight handled operations for years and how that’s shifting (8:09)Value add for freight forwarders (10:54)Building an organization that provides technology that scales (14:15)Generating value on both sides of the marketplace (19:08)Importance of cargo.one’s aggregation and workflow (21:13)Global ambitions and perspective of cargo.one (26:44)Adapting to cultural differences in an international marketplace (32:09)Biggest lessons learned since starting cargo.one (34:52)cargo.one’s platform allows for users to search for quotes, compare real-time quotes across airlines, and then directly book quotes with instant confirmation. Find out more at: https://www.cargo.one/#How-it-worksAbout The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:David’s story and pivoting from his original idea (1:36)Tapping into the European road freight market (4:57)Balancing organic and inorganic growth (9:12)Understanding what motivates the team around you (13:39)Re-inventing business models, including with autonomous trucks (17:06)Fostering trust with carriers and shippers (21:10)Managing a wide network of carriers (24:23)Employees contribution to sennder’s culture (28:09)David’s effective habits and advice for entrepreneurs (30:41)sennder places a focus on digitization and automation of all road logistics processes and positions itself as Europe’s leading freight forwarder that connects shippers with a fleet of thousands of trucks. Find out more at: https://www.sennder.com/about-usAbout The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:Michael’s backstory in logistics and autonomous vehicles (2:21)Ryder and Gatik’s collaboration (6:17)Autonomous vehicle diagnostics, hardware, and maintenance (8:49)Dealing with different drivetrains (15:39)Building scalable solutions across geographies (18:58)Locking down a solid playbook for scalability (20:38)Developing transparent and collaborative partnerships (22:12)A bullish outlook on autonomous vehicles (25:38)Gatik, the leader in middle mile logistics, delivers goods safely and efficiently with its fleet of light and medium duty trucks. Its fleet of autonomous box trucks is available in multiple markets including Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Ontario. Focusing on short-haul, B2B logistics for the retail industry, Gatik enables its customers to optimize their supply chain with affordable convenience. Find out more at https://gatik.ai/about/About The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights of this conversation include: Transfix’s origin story (1:35)Applying software to create a competitive advantage and drive people toward the future (5:05)With every segment of the supply chain being digitized, where is the digitalization really accelerating? (9:10)Learning to harmonize the digital and the physical to become a world-class 3PL (14:14)Addressing criticism of margins in digital freight brokerage and driving value (18:30)Full truckload vs. less than truckload and listening to AI to solve problems (28:05)Challenges of going from a start up to a scale up and knowing when to step aside as CEO (38:41)Drew McElroy co-founded Transfix in 2013 with the goal of creating a simpler, smarter and more sustainable freight ecosystem. Learn more about Transfix at transfix.io.About The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:Building a next-generation transportation management system (1:03)Announcing Rose Rocket’s Series A and discussing bringing a horizontal software to address multiple trucking verticals (6:09)Providing transparency with a platform layer (11:30)How Rose Rocket solves problems for its customers (15:36)The Rose Rocket shipper portal and a freemium model (17:21)Three points on what makes Rose Rocket stand out (19:56)Business best practices, pricing strategy, and scaling culture (21:21)Making adjustments to office life (28:30)Lessons learned from being a Canadian business (31:03)Rose Rocket is a platform transportation management software (TMS) that helps manage the unique needs of today’s transportation companies, helping improve communications with systems, customers, and the people who move freight. Find out more at: https://www.roserocket.com/About The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:Mike background and growth and expansion at Pure Storage (1:33)Mike’s responsibilities as VP of Operations (6:22)Current state of the hardware supply chain (8:56)Risk mitigation lessons learned from previous disasters and disruptions (11:44)Visibility in the supply chain (14:08)Preparing for the worst and planning for the best (19:54)Near-shoring and manufacturing renaissance in North America (23:23)Startup collaboration (25:20)Opportunities for growth in the industry (26:34)Pure's data solutions enable SaaS companies, cloud service providers, and enterprise and public sector customers to deliver real-time, secure data to power their mission-critical production, DevOps, and modern analytics environments in a multi-cloud environment. Find out more at https://www.purestorage.com/company.htmlAbout The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:Nulogy’s fit in the supply chain and Jason’s background at Kellogg’s (1:12)E-commerce acceleration (5:38)Defining co-packers (8:22)Typical customers using Nulogy (12:46)Problems that Nulogy addresses (14:30)Operational effectiveness and on-time and full metrics (18:20)Nulogy University’s role in business building (20:18)How culture scales as a business grows (25:54)Founded in 2002 and based in Toronto, Nulogy provides a technological platform for automation, visibility, and orchestration to communicate, collaborate, and synchronize to reduce waste across the supply chain. Find out more at: https://nulogy.com/about-us/About The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Topics in this conversation include: How Craig coined Chattanooga as the “Freight Alley” and decided to found Freightwaves there (1:58)How the Sonar Freight Forecasting Platform works (11:38)Bull or Bear outlook for the freight markets moving forward? (24:20)The current state of digitizing freight (31:42)The biggest lessons learned in building Freightwaves & the purpose of the media arm (41:20)Where new founders should be focusing their efforts (48:00)Craig has led the Freightwaves team to raise over $75 million to build products like Sonar and FreightWaves TV which serves a daily audience of over 25,000 viewers . You can learn more about the Craig and the Freightwaves team by visiting https://www.freightwaves.com/About The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:Alan had been running UPS Ventures when he last appeared on the show. What he’s been up to since then. (1:45)Looking at the changing landscape for the last mile in fulfillment, delivery, and returns (7:35)Three key takeaways (12:07)Data science driving operations (17:50)What will separate the winners from the losers in the next five years (23:27)Heavyweight drones and electric airplanes (27:00)Trends in outsourcing return logistics (31:47)Big and bulky e-commerce, returns, and lifecycle logistics (34:43)The Global Supply Chain Institute is part of the Haslam College of Business at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The program partners with companies, industry organizations, academics and students to help identify their supply chain management (SCM) strategy and develop their talent, extending relationships to the industry and driving transformation in the profession. Find out more at: https://supplychainmanagement.utk.edu/About The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:Peter’s background in journalism (1:22)Eric’s focus on technology (2:28)Extreme increases in freight benchmarks and decreases in service (4:30)Frustrations in container shipping detention (11:10)Slowdown in circulation of assets (13:25)E-commerce boom’s impact on distribution centers and more (19:28)When this boom will peak (23:00)Demand for visibility tools (25:56)International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union negotiations and automation (32:20)IHS Markit positions itself as the leading source of information and insight in critical areas that shape today's business landscape. Customers around the world rely on IHS Markit to address strategic and operational challenges. Find out more at ihsmarkit.com/aboutAbout The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.