The Future of Supply Chain: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast

In this week's episode, we sit down with Gautam Narang, Co-Founder and CEO of Gatik to talk about middle mile logistics and autonomous vehicles.

In this week’s episode of The Future of Supply Chain, Santosh is joined by Sean Coakley, chief commercial officer at Capstone Logistics. Capstone is the largest warehouse services company in the country, and Sean focuses on strategic and tactical growth.Highlights from their conversation include:An overview of Capstone Logistics and Sean’s path in the industry (1:05)Weighing the added value from a new partner against the risk it could bring to the relationship with the customer (5:04)3PL’s build versus buy discussion (8:35)Analyzing the 3PL and shipper relationship (13:30)Creative deal structures (18:55)Insights on disruption and change in the future of the industry (21:41)Quick takes on recent supply chain news, including the distribution of coronavirus vaccines (24:18)Positioned to help customers reduce warehousing and transportation costs, Capstone is a leading North American supply chain solutions partner with more than 500 operating locations,14,500 associates, and 60,000 carriers. They have capabilities in freight management, warehouse and distribution center support, last mile delivery, supply chain analytics and optimization, and more. Find out more at https://www.capstonelogistics.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.

In this week’s episode of The Future of Supply Chain, Santosh is joined by Ryan Yost, vice president and general manager of the printer solutions division at Avery Dennison. By utilizing radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions, Avery Dennison has become a key player in facilitating supply chain visibility around the world.Highlights from their conversation include:Ryan’s foray into supply chain and RFID (1:06)RFID’s adoption curve in the supply chain (5:46)Ways RFID has evolved recently (9:17)Optimizing the visibility that RFID provides (11:45)Use cases for determining ROI with RFID (17:40)Comparing and contrasting emerging technologies with RFID (23:48)Trends in demand for RFID in 2020 and beyond (27:14)Avery Dennison is a global materials science company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials, including radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets. Find out more about Avery Dennison here.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. Listen to more episodes at https://www.dynamo.vc/podcasts

*From time to time we’ll re-air a previous episode of the show that our newer audience may have missed.* In this week's episode, we sit down with Ben Jones, Co-Founder, and CEO of Ohi to talk about micro-fulfillment, micro-warehousing and the future of shipping logistics.‍‍

On this week’s episode, Santosh talks with Jeff Dangelo, founder of Turvo. Turvo is a collaborative logistics platform that focuses on interaction between organizations in the supply chain.Highlights from their conversation include:Introduction to Turvo and Jeff Dangelo (1:09)Why Jeff doesn’t see Turvo as a TMS (6:52)Discussing the fate of the broker over the next few years (13:12)Productivity gains seen by customers and brokers (17:04)Where Turvo is situated in the future of the supply chain (22:39)Strategizing on pricing and freemium plans (28:02)Rapid-fire questions about industry news (32:29)Turvo works to empower shippers, carriers, LSPs, and brokers with a streamlined, connected approach to comprehensive supply chain management, all in one platform. Find out more at https://turvo.com/what-is-turvo/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.

Santosh is joined by David Boardman, co-founder and CEO of Stockpile Reports for this week’s episode. Founded in 2012, Stockpile Reports set out to deploy an easy to use, timely, and cost-effective inventory management platform. Using advanced image processing and computer vision, Stockpile Reports creates a system of record for bulk assets with automated, real-time volumetric results.Highlights from their conversation included:Using advanced image processing to help bulk materials companies eliminate that year-end surprise (1:14)How bulk materials companies used to assess their inventory (5:53)Interpreting pixels captured by smartphones, drones and more for attributes of a stockpile (9:38)Sample use cases for image acquisition and data integration (13:00)Attitude shifts in inventory management in 2020 (17:37)Offering a bundled option compared to a white label option (19:35)Focusing on a problem to solve and partnering to provide a complete solution (23:23)Projecting the future of Stockpile Reports (25:22)Stockpile Reports enables companies to become the market leaders by solving their most difficult inventory, operations, and financial problems with their Every Pile, Any Time™ mindset. Turn your biggest headache into an asset you can leverage to create competitive advantage through material visibility across your enterprise supply chains. Find out more at stockpilereports.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.

In this week’s episode, Santosh is joined by Peter Tirschwell and Eric Johnson from IHS Markit and its Journal of Commerce (JOC). Eric, the JOC’s senior editor for technology, is the show’s first returning guest after appearing on the show’s 38th episode. Peter is the vice president for maritime and trade business at IHS Markit and is responsible for all content appearing in JOC publications, websites, events and other products.Their conversation about the state of the container shipping industry covered:The state of the container business in 2020 (3:34)Integration ambition, building larger vessels and depressing sea rates (9:56)Carrier consolidation and global alliances (15:10)Carriers being smart with pricing and keeping space open (19:23)Technological adoption for liners (22:00)Average annual global container growth and proliferation of regional trade (30:44)What does the state of global trade mean for VCOs? (37:21)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.

In this episode of the Future of Supply Chain podcast, we spoke with Priya Rajagopalan, CPO of FourKites. We discussed integrating technology to bring real-time tracking and data to the supply chain space.

On The Future of Supply Chain this week, Santosh connects with Brad Klaus, CEO at Haven. Haven is dedicated to making global trade as efficient as it can be, using technology to simplify and streamline operations.Highlights from their discussion include:Brad’s experience in the international logistics software world (1:13)International TMS execution workflows (5:14)Localization challenges to delivering a TMS at scale globally (10:13)Improving access to high-quality data in international freight (19:17)COVID’s impact on logistics teams (23:05)A founder’s approach to product pricing from seed to series A (25:31)Surprise at large organizations that still aren’t using software to manage workflows (30:55)Haven automates global logistics for commodity traders, food producers, and other large shippers every day. In a system notorious for inefficiency, their solutions-focused TMS streamlines workloads, saving over 50,000 hours of human time thus far. Their tools unlock shipment data that otherwise gets buried or lost in emails and phone calls, and turns that information into actionable insights that make work easier and more efficient. With Haven, tedium and frustration is traded for greater transparency and smoother collaboration.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.

In this week’s episode, Santosh is joined by Alden Woodrow, founder, and CEO of IKE, an autonomous trucking startup launched in 2018 by veterans of Google, Apple, and Uber.With more than 170 billion miles a year being driven on the highway by the trucking industry, Santosh and Alden discuss how Ike is working to automate that part of the freight delivery journey.Important points in the conversation include:Alden breaks down his background with supply chain and automation (1:18)The state of self-driving vehicles in 2020 (2:47)How Ike differentiates itself from competitors (14:31)Navigating regulations and ensuring safety (19:39)Discussing the news of working with Ryder, NFI, and DHL (28:01)Pitching to fleets and helping them prepare for this vision of the future (34:03)Alden’s take on the value of demonstrating the technology on public roads early on (37:01)Ike is building cutting-edge automation technology to help improve the trucking industry. Ike envisions a world with automated trucks that focus on highway driving and hand-off the more complex and high-value parts of freight transportation to human operators. Find out more at ike.comAbout 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.