IL Podcast 021: How can high-volume shippers better safeguard their operations from being stalled by inefficiencies in exception management? Guest, Rainer Tauchert, Implementation Manager, UltrashipTMS
High-volume shippers have to manage a process that covers everything from the initial order all the way through to freight settlement. With so many details to oversee, the entire chain can still get h...
14 Jun 201711min
IL Podcast 020: What does it take for a company to effectively and efficiently manage an asset-based supply chain both at home and across the border? Guests: Bill Carter, VP, Logistics and Mike Cervin, VP, Operations, Mexico of CFI
Managing an asset-based supply chain domestically has it's own set of challenges. Taking that supply chain into Mexico often requires a completely different approach altogether. Bill Carter, Vice Pres...
2 Jun 201720min
IL Podcast 019: In a heavily male-dominated field, is your business missing out on the wealth of talented women looking to enter the logistics industry? Guests: Jillian Lee, VP of HR and Maggie Turner, Account Manager, AFN Logistics
The supply chain industry is dynamic, fast-paced, and ripe with opportunity but still remains a heavily male-dominated field. Businesses looking to capitalize on this people-powered industry would do ...
30 Mai 201718min
IL Podcast 018: Where should businesses direct their focus to keep their supply chain agile and responsive to the increasingly challenging demands of a global consumer market? Guest: Brad Jacobs, CEO, XPO Logistics
A dynamic, global consumer market with increasingly challenging demand signals requires a supply chain that can be agile, flexible, and responsive. New technologies, and innovative software can help a...
9 Mai 201714min
IL Podcast 017: How does equipment that's a hundred years old continue to shape the supply chain industry and stay relevant in the 21st century? Guest: Scott Johnson, Clark Material Handling
Lift trucks have powered supply chain operations in warehouses all over the world but the first forklift got rolling a century ago right here in the USA from Clark Equipment. But after one hundred yea...
5 Mai 201716min
IL Podcast 016: When retailers & suppliers square off against ecommerce giants, are you really better off with the devil you know? Guest: Jeremy Hanks, Dsco
Today's retailers and suppliers face ever increasing challenges to remain effective in the face of the unstoppable force of ecommerce. To combat the likes of Amazon, businesses need to embrace new tec...
28 Apr 201721min
ILPodcast 015: What happens when a truck driver parks on the White House lawn? Guest: Rhonda Hartman, Old Dominion Freight Lines
Rhonda Hartman is a professional driver for Old Dominion Freight Lines who's been behind the wheel for 34 years. Now, as the only female member of the American Trucking Association's America's Road Te...
22 Apr 201716min
ILPodcast 014: Special ProMat Edition - Industry Thought Leaders from Crown Equipment, Sologlobe, Toshiba, and DHL Talk Globalization, Automation, and do some Prognostication
Inbound Logistics was at ProMat 2017 in Chicago where we invited several thought leaders from the industry to answer some questions about the state of logistics today and where it might be headed in t...
19 Apr 201720min
