Talking Logistics Podcasts

Talking Logistics Podcasts

Conversations with Thought Leaders and Newsmakers in the Supply Chain & Logistics Industry

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April 27, 2025

We’re still in the first quarter of 2025, but we already have a strong contender for Word of the Year: tariffs. Since inauguration day, tariffs have dominated the headlines, with so many back-and-forth changes happening almost on a daily basis, it’s been difficult for supply chain and global trade professionals to keep up. One of ... Read more

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Here we are at the beginning of 2025. What developments and trends will shape the year ahead? Well, if we learned anything from 2020 is that predicting in January what will happen in the weeks and months ahead is a fool’s errand. All we can say for sure is that 2025 will be unpredictable, risky, ... Read more

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In April 2024, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies — if they had experienced cargo theft or other types of freight fraud in the past year. Almost half said they had experienced theft or fraud in ... Read more

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Waste and inefficiencies still exist in many areas of transportation management. One area that is getting a lot of attention, especially in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, is transportation procurement. Why has the time come to reimagine and transform transportation procurement? What factors are driving this need? How can technology help make transportation procurement ... Read more

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If you’ve seen the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you know the following quote: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Nowhere is that truer than in the supply chain and logistics realm, and especially when it comes to technology. With so much ... Read more

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2025 is just around the corner and many companies are developing their transportation budgets and strategies for the coming year. Are you going to be proactive in driving change and continuous improvement in 2025 or will you take a “let’s wait and see what happens” approach? Mike Regan, Co-Founder and Chief of Relationship Development at ... Read more

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So, how resilient is your supply chain? The honest answer for many companies, which they learned the hard way during the Covid pandemic, is that their supply chains are not very resilient — that is, not able to adapt and recover from disruptions very quickly and effectively. That is why, over the past few years, ... Read more

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One of things companies have learned about e-commerce is that everything can go right up to the time a customer clicks the “Buy” button, but if you don’t get the rest of the order fulfillment process right, it can have negative consequences — not only with regards to customer experience and satisfaction, but financially too. ... Read more

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There is a common thread among many logistics professionals: they almost all fell into this industry — that is, they didn’t study supply chain or logistics in college, or they didn’t start their careers in the field, but they eventually landed in the industry, fell in love with it, and have never looked back. Why ... Read more

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If you’re a transportation executive, you’re always looking for ways to reduce costs, improve service, satisfy customers, and help the business meet its financial and strategic objectives. There are many ways to reduce waste and improve efficiencies in transportation management, and in this latest installment of “Profiles in Transportation Management Excellence,” Jeff Bishop, Category Manager ... Read more

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Forced labor has been a problem in supply chain management for a long time. The good news is that over the past few years governments and companies have been taking action to help eradicate this problem. That said, it’s not an easy problem to solve. In a survey we conducted with members of our Indago ... Read more

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If you’re on the front lines of transportation management, you know there’s never a dull moment in this industry. Whether you’re navigating the ebbs and flow of capacity and rates, or you’re dealing with new regulations or customer requirements, finding the right balance between cost, service, risk, and compliance is more difficult than ever. Since ... Read more

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One of the things many companies learned during the height of the Covid pandemic is that they really didn’t have good visibility across their end-to-end supply chain — at least not beyond their Tier 1 suppliers and partners. Fast forward to today and having multi-tier transparency and traceability is more important than ever. What trends ... Read more

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Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Industry at Descartes shares insights and advice from a research report published by Descartes titled, “What Are Companies Doing to Survive the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge?” Podcast version (click to play):

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After almost 30 years in the technology field, Fab Brasca recently launched TriSuccess Advisory, which among other things, provides fractional executive leadership and career/life balance coaching. How has Fab been able to succeed both as a business executive and an Ironman triathlete, which both demand a lot of time, energy, and commitment? What lessons has ... Read more

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Over the past four years, due in large part to the Covid pandemic, there has been a lot of discussion about the importance of risk management and how companies need to create more resilient supply chains, with logistics being a key enabler. We were reminded of this again just a few days ago, when a ... Read more

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Labor shortages were among the top of supply chain challenges companies faced during the Covid pandemic. In fact, back in January 2022, we had Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Industry at Descartes on the program to discuss this problem in an episode titled, “The Labor Shortage Problem: Why It’s Bigger Than You Think.” Here we ... Read more

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If you’re a distributor, you know that fleet performance has a direct impact on your financial performance, your ability to differentiate yourself from the competition, and your ability to deliver an enhanced customer experience. What separates the leaders from the laggards in the industry? What are some signs that a distributor isn’t employing route planning ... Read more

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When I started as an industry analyst almost 25 years ago, relatively few companies were shipping via parcel. You can say it was a niche mode for a small segment of the market. Fast forward to today, and with the rise of e-commerce, parcel shipping is now a critical mode of transportation for retailers and ... Read more

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When it comes to Artificial Intelligence, many companies are still in the learning phase — that is, they’re trying to understand the technology landscape and what’s possible, and it’s a bit challenging because everything is evolving very fast. At the moment, all the buzz and hype is about Generative AI, thanks in large part to ... Read more

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