FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

With consumer demand at an all-time high and supply scarce, shippers need more dynamic, cost-effective tools and methods to carry out their transportation strategy. Digital freight offerings like rating APIs and integration platforms offer automated, plug-and-play logistical solutions that streamline processes enabling shippers to operate a higher level of efficiency at a fraction of the cost. Hear from Redwood Chief Product Officer Mike Reed and Chief Innovation Officer Eric Rempel as they shed light on the digital freight platforms and tools that will transform how shippers plan and execute their routing guide strategy in 2021. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What should digital transformation really mean to leader’s in today’s business world, full of disruptions and shifts in priorities? This Fireside Chat discusses the top things to prepare for and the key steps to take in order to attain successful Digital Value Chain journeys, from regional supply chain improvements to global digital transformation programs. Hear from Gary Berger President, Berger Business Consulting and Ex-VP of Global Digital Transformation, PepsiCo, Fab Brasca, Group Vice President, Global Solutions, Blue Yonder, and Patrick Jones, Director of Supply Chain Execution, Transformation Advisory, Blue Yonder, as they discuss the hurdles and essential elements of successful transformations.” Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sourcing logistics tools and assets is tough for small and midsize companies. Owners and operators of traditional warehouses want long leases, large footprints and personal guarantees from tenants. From leadership trends to customer perspectives, hear how companies are navigating the CPG and warehousing challenges of 2021. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zeta Smith, CEO of North American Seniors Sodexo, and FreightWaves’ Anthony Smith discuss how the pandemic has created new challenges for leaders. They also talk about the specific challenges senior communities have faced in terms of sourcing personal protective equipment and changing the way they operate to keep residents safe. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Waller, Dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and Kathy Wengel, EVP and Chief Global Supply Chain Officer for Johnson & Johnson discuss key trends that emerged in the global supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic as suppliers, manufacturers and distributors collaborated to ensure critical supplies were distributed all over the world. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The transportation industry is vulnerable to a myriad of risk including those that are impacted directly or indirectly by the ever-changing supply chain, in this case food and agriculture. These changes can be driven by legislation, trade, criminality, pandemics, and the list goes on. This discussion between Gary Retherford and John Hoffman will take us through the complexities of the food and agriculture supply chain, how we got here, and what are some of the potential solutions on the horizon, including Blockchain. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Joe Biden unveiled a $1.3 trillion, 10-year infrastructure plan last year that will be the blueprint for an infrastructure package that the freight transportation industry is hoping Congress will pass later this year. This fireside chat between John Gallagher and David Braunstein explores the investment opportunity Biden’s blueprint holds for last-mile freight delivery and the potential for making this sector of the supply chain safer and more efficient. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Kingsman discusses with FreightWaves Editor at Large John Kingston several key trends that have impacted global supply chains in agriculture over the past 40-plus years. One is the evolution of the huge grain merchants that controlled so much of the flows back in the 1970s, who have either changed their way of doing business or disappeared altogether in mergers. The second is the growing efficiency of the supply chain in agriculture, which recently has come under pressure from revived government intervention. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The global transport system is short of containers. Carriers are racing to get available boxes back to China for lucrative headhaul trades. This is leaving U.S. exporters of food and containerized agricultural products short of the boxes they need. Peter Friedmann, Executive Director of the Agriculture Transport Coalition examines the challenges being faced with FreightWaves Senior Editor Greg Miller. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Waller and John Tyson talk about sustainability in the global protein supply chain. They dive into Tyson Foods' vision of sustainability in the protein supply chain, including how carriers and suppliers can collaborate to achieve this vision. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Retailers and manufacturers are facing a new world in 2021, thanks to COVID, but if the resiliency of the supply chain proved anything in 2020, it is that they can adapt. Tom Madrecki, vice president of supply chain and logistics at the Consumer Brands Association, joined Andrew Cox, FreightWaves’ senior retail analyst, to kick off Day 3 of the FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week virtual conference. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susy Schöneberg and FreightWaves’ Andrew Cox discuss waste management, greenhouse gas emissions and social sustainability for retail supply chains. Flexport.org provides customers with usable data to help them make informed decisions regarding sustainability and other metrics such as costs and shipment times. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heavy-goods supply chains are still reeling after a tumultuous 2020. Kevin Walker from Accentrics Home and Doug Ladden with Deliveright Logistics look at the challenges that remain for manufacturers, retailers and logistics firms and share some of their best practices for the new year. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC senior editor of guests and a FreightWaves contributor, speaks with Brett Rose on the backlog of container ships on the West Coast that is disrupting the traditional supply chains for retailers. Traditional expectations have been thrown out the window as a delay in getting goods to consumers combines with the changing buying habits fueled by the pandemic. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

E-commerce fulfillment warehouses have never been in more demand. But is there enough labor to adequately staff these facilities? What will it cost retailers and manufacturers to ensure that orders get out the door as fast as possible? Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've all heard the saying that real estate is all about location, location, location, but is that the maxim for commercial real estate? Often access to labor and logistics is much more important to proximity to distribution centers and brick and mortar stores. Once you understand this, then the type of property becomes less important. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lori Ann LaRocco speaks with Jon Gold, Vice President, Supply Chain and Customs Policy at National Retail Federation to discuss the retail import slowdown. No retailer wants to have empty shelves or have to put items they receive late immediately on discount. These added costs of the delays ultimately have to be absorbed by the retailer. Lori Ann and Jon discuss how retailers are navigating the container crunch so they be fully stocked. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicholas Cogan and Matt Waller, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, discuss last-mile delivery and omnichannel retailing from a global perspective. They examine how customer relationships vary across global markets and how important customer relationships are, regardless of the market. They also explore the importance of carrier reliability and sustainability. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The rise of e-commerce in the purchase of construction materials and equipment is challenging companies in the building and construction segment to meet customer expectations of quickly, easily and reliably acquiring the tools and materials they need. This session will explore the challenges of an omnichannel supply chain and address how having the right 3PL partner can solve this complexity, and support increased product availability, simplify returns and reduce order to delivery times. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warehousing has changed more in the past five years than in the previous 70 years. Chris Riemann and A.K. Schultz discuss the role of automation in this warehousing revolution and how organizations can move their supply chains forward during this e-commerce boom and COVID pandemic. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff McDermott, SVP of Transportation at Geodis and FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom discuss the recent impact to peak season from COVID-19 and expectations for near-term changes as a result. This discussion explores changes in shipper/carrier behavior, dealing with the accelerated pace of e-commerce adoption in transportation management and other thematic trends in the final mile. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conversation with Jon Gold of the National Retail Federation and Weston LaBar of the Harbor Trucking Association on how BCO’s and truckers are working together to help mitigate the impacts of congestion in Southern California’s San Pedro Bay port complex. Dive into the challenges and opportunities facing shippers and their transportation partners in Southern California. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sweeping changes in fulfillment strategy, the surge in e-commerce demand, and a persistent worker shortage have forced warehouse operators to think more about automation than ever before. Jeff Christensen, VP of Product at Seegrid, one of the top makers of autonomous warehouse equipment, discusses where warehouses go from here. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ravi Dosanjh, head of strategic programming for Intel Corp., said participants need to understand the value they provide and ask the right questions to ensure a seamless experience for all. “The right balance of capacity always plays a role and is critical to manage carefully, given the current environment. In my view, the question is, ‘How do we manage that capacity in an appropriate way?’” Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Opening up a manufacturing operation is challenging in it self, imagine trying to open up an operations in a country where you have no idea how the laws and requirements to operate are established. Mexican Shelter Companies help answer the question of the unknown. FreightWaves Cross Border Reporter Noi Mahoney and Joshua Rubin, VP of Business Development for Javid Group explain the options you have when the decision has been made to move part of your manufacturing to Mexico. You have the opportunity to find a partner to ensure your success. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick Duffy, President of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance talks to Jeffrey Curtis, VP of Defense and Supply Chain at SIMBA Chain. They talk about how an efficient and auditable blockchain can be produced and managed in a nearly drag-and-drop fashion that democratizes the use of technology. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jennifer Bisceglie discusses with FreightWaves Manager of Enterprise Solutions Kyle Taylor how her company, Interos, ingests over 100,000 different types of data feeds to map out a company’s extended supply chain and monitors weather and world events to prepare companies for any ripple effects in the defense supply chain. Interos then alerts analysts when changes to supplier governance, geographic and financial risks are detected. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Fuller, Founder and CEO at FreightWaves, talks to Brooke Sutherland, Industrial and M&A Columnist at Bloomberg. They take a wide-ranging look at the biggest topics of the industry, including ways in which the private sector can make COVID-19 vaccinations more efficient. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More and more delivery is cutting out the warehouses, distribution centers, and retailers and going direct from the manufacturer to the consumer. Find out in this fireside chat between FreightWaves reporter Kaylee Nix and Andrew Lockwood, Senior Manager, Solutions Design at Suddath Global Logistics the factors that have gone into these changes. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stan Wraight is a legend in the air cargo industry. He's held leadership positions at three big cargo airlines and now advises airlines, airports, logistics companies and other parties on how to manage air freight issues. FreightWaves Air Cargo Editor Eric Kulisch talks to Stan about the market conditions shippers and carriers are facing, digitization initiatives, the prolific use by airlines of "preighters," e-commerce and pharma shipments for COVID vaccine. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Volga-Dnepr is one of the most unique specialist all-cargo airlines in the world. It has a large fleet of Boeing 747s, but also some Russian-made aircraft that can handle out-of-gauge cargo or land on smaller airfields under challenging runway conditions. Find out from Volga-Dnepr Group CCO Konstantin Vekshin about the company's role in airlift during the pandemic, and how it applies its Cargo Supermarket approach to find the right solution for shippers. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Fireside Chat between Delta Cargo’s Vice President, Rob Walpole and customer Thomas Puglisi, Head of Global Logistics at Kuehne & Nagel. They take a look at how Delta Cargo’s innovative digital transformation is creating a more transparent and customer-centric experience across the globe. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bomb sniffing dogs aren't just used by the Army, or for security at live events or airports. Did you know they also are widely used to screen air cargo? And in a few months, new rules will require more cargo to be screened. Learn how trained canine teams compare to X-ray detection and how air shippers are deploying them in this fireside chat between Eric Hare, President and CEO of Global K9 Protection Group, and FreightWaves Air Cargo Editor Eric Kulisch. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Coker, Vice Director at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex gives FreightWaves' President George Abernathy an inside look at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s (AEDC) focus on the national defense strategy, which includes developing and testing technology for missile defense and hypersonic weapon systems as well as the nation’s nuclear modernization plan. The chat also discusses the commercialization of space and how the U.S. defends its space assets. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last mile logistics across the globe have experienced capacity issues with lockdowns accelerating e-commerce and direct delivery to customers. Brands need to utilize technology in their last-mile logistic strategies to keep a competitive advantage. Through utilizing control towers, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics businesses can create efficiencies and sustainable options as Jamie Dixon, Director of Supply Chain at XAct Solutions explains to FreightWaves' Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miami International Airport is the cargo hub for the Americas. Flowers, fresh fruit, seafood, machinery and other products transfer there between U.S. destinations and Latin America and Europe. MIA had a record year for cargo in 2020 despite the COVID pandemic. Join this discussion with FreightWaves' Air Cargo Editor Eric Kulisch, and Emir Pineda, Manager Aviation & Trade Logistics at the Miami-Dade Aviation Department, to find out why Miami continues to grow with cargo operations and how it organized the cargo community together to make sure pharmaceutical companies were confident that COVID-19 vaccines could be handled quickly and efficiently. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Abernathy, President of FreightWaves, chats with Scott Paul, President of Alliance for American Manufacturing, in this Keynote address from Day 1 of Global Supply Chain Week. Paul underlines the need for intentionality in addressing the infrastructure in America through manufacturing and trade. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vaccine demand planning requires coordination across the supply chain spectrum. Logistics, materials management, and operations need to support clinicians at the point of care to maximize community protection. Come hear a lively healthcare supply chain conversation between John Ervin and Andrew Kelley that covers demand planning, healthcare operations, metrics, constraints and what you need to know. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amid the unforeseen effects of the pandemic on at-risk and lower-income communities, governments and organizations around the world must convene to ensure effective distribution of newly developed vaccines. Malte Hans, Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, and Margi Van Gogh, Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries for the World Economic Forum discuss the importance of making sure no country is left behind. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Susanne Somerville, CEO of Chronicled, the custodian of MediLedger, and Patrick Duffy, the President of Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) as they discuss the state of enterprise blockchain, how this technology has evolved over the past few years, and what opportunities (and challenges) are on the horizon coming out of the pandemic. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each region presents a different challenge in creating efficient medical supply chains to address the unique needs of its populations. Nowhere is that more evident than in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. PowerFleet CEO Chris Wolfe dives into the different technologies and approaches to getting critical medical supplies around the globe from Israel to Africa. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Covid-19 has disrupted trade patterns and relations in every industry. For the pharmaceutical industry disruptions are even more serious as a large percentage of PPE and medicines are sourced from China. Jonathan Ward, President and Founder of the Atlas Organization talks to FreightWaves President George Abernathy on what this might do to the trade relations between the US and China. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Sangster, Vice President of Global Sales at Descartes Systems Group sat down with FreightWaves' Andrew Cox to discuss the challenges of pharmaceutical transportation. Scott details the pain points of the current system, the advantages of leveraging mesh networks and BLE tags, and what the logistics community needs to do to achieve end-to-end visibility for all parties. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wolfgang Lehmacher, a former supply chain expert at the World Economic Forum, stops by to chat with FreightWaves reporter Eric Kulisch to provide insights on recent progress in vaccine delivery, the technology needed to maximize the impact of this vaccine and predict how long before it spoils, and the potential this holds for the future. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

XPO has been distributing protective personal equipment since the start of the pandemic. This experience laid the foundation for the speed and agility it takes for aligning its vast delivery network to the needs of distributing the Covid-19 vaccine. Hear what Katrina Liddell, President of XPO Global Forwarding and Expedite at XPO Logistics has to say about what was learned in this fireside chat. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Todd Fagley, the CEO and co-founder of MedSource Labs, spoke with John Kingston to discuss the supply chain challenges that the medical supply sector has faced in the age of the pandemic. MedSource is a manufacturer and distributor of a wide range of medical supplies. For one thing, there’s a lot more air freight than there was before. And like most companies in the medical supply chain, MedSource has needed to step up taking care of immediate pressing demands from customers and had to put some long-range development on hold. But they’re getting back to that now. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracking and visibility of products on the move is important for all industries, but maybe none more so than pharmaceuticals and healthcare. The delicate nature of pharmaceuticals and healthcare equipment combined with its high value makes it a vital ingredient in the supply chain. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kenco Marketing Director Sylvia Cintron and SONAR Account Executive Kyle Taylor discuss how focusing on the individual will not only enhance your current marketing strategy but provide the returns you are striving for. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The battle for drivers is at an all-time high and carriers are looking for new-aged marketing techniques, as well as looking back to old school techniques, in search of solutions for their driver hiring needs. SeatMyTrucks President Rob Hatchett discusses with CDLLife President Travis Overton in this fireside chat. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How many marketing and sales rules for 2021 articles have you already seen? The truth is, no one has been through a year like this, so even educated guesses are just that—guesses. What do you think would happen if you cranked up resiliency and agility to 11? David Hoffeld and Meshach Weber discuss the power of Growth Mindset and Behavior Design in marketing and sales. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices