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Connecting the Smart Fleet Ecosystem with Amit Jain

The Logistics of Logistics

Later in his tenure at Verizon, he joined the executive leadership team at Verizon Connect as the head of strategy, business development, market intelligence and big data. Data integration: Solutions on the marketplace are pre-integrated with vehicle, driver, and fleet data. The Greenscreens.ai

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The Fishtail Story with Marc Held

The Logistics of Logistics

Specializing in financing Purchase Orders for small businesses in emerging markets, Fishtail solves the $2tn working capital gap in trade finance. Complexity behind global supply chains has made it incredibly challenging for financial institutions to fund purchase orders and invoices, internationally, for SMBs on a meaningful scale.

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An Alternative to UPS and FedEx with Mark Lavelle

The Logistics of Logistics

Key Takeaways: An Alternative to UPS and FedEx Mark Lavelle is the Chief Executive Officer at Maergo, a first-of-its-kind parcel delivery platform, purpose-built for branded direct-to-consumer delivery using modern technology and advanced data capabilities. In the podcast interview, Mark and Joe discuss alternatives to UPS and FedEx.

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Supplier Onboarding is Core to a Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

The most common form of trading partner collaboration is purchase order collaboration. With PO collaboration, buyers send digital purchase orders over the network to suppliers or other trading partners. They sell to the automotive, data communications, medical, industrial, consumer electronics, and other industries.

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Prove ROI and Make the Business Case for Industrial Content Marketing

Speaker: Achinta Mitra, Founder and President, Tiecas Inc.

It's the plight of an industrial marketer: over the course of a 12-18 month long buying cycle, you make contact with a whole host of influencers who read your content.who may or may not actually work in purchasing. Meanwhile, the purchase somehow takes place, and Sales claims all the glory. and win (or keep!)

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The Blurred Lines Between Retail and DTC with Guy Courtin

The Logistics of Logistics

For retailers, this is an avenue where they can build more intimacy with their customers and capture more data and loyalty. Data is essential in the digital world since it allows the company to develop a buyer persona. Ecommerce companies have data, retailers don’t. Competitive pricing and good quality.

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Autonomous Business Planning Is Not Only Possible, It Has Already Been Achieved

Logistics Viewpoints

At a division of one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, 85% autonomy on manufacturing plans and 95% acceptance of proposed purchase orders has been achieved. The platform collects data and makes sure the master data is internally consistent. If a user makes changes to the plan, they log that data.

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Automated Order Processing and Proactive Inventory Management

Speaker: Irina Rosca, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Helix

Organizations need to focus on demand driven supply planning, utilizing real time information on customer orders from all marketplaces (e-commence, Amazon - or other online retailers, and point of sale data from brick and mortar). Focusing on this information once per month during the S&OP meeting is too late for all business units to align.