The New Warehouse Podcast
The New Warehouse podcast hosted by Kevin Lawton is your source for insights and ideas from the distribution, transportation and logistics industry. New episodes every Monday and Wednesday morning bring you the latest from industry experts and thought leaders.
Episodes
Welcome to The New Warehouse Podcast. Ron Egan, senior vice president of sales at FORTNA, joins Kevin to discuss peak planning. FORTNA designs, integrates, and supports warehouse and parcel distribution systems.
Egan shares where operations get caught, how to test readiness, and why faster picking alone won’t solve the problem.
The conversation tackles a costly question: How much automation does a warehouse need when its ...
A customer shipping 10 million packages still couldn’t fill the trucks needed for daily departures. For Chris Guggenheim, that experience helped spark the idea behind ClearJet.
On this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, ClearJet’s founder and CEO explains how the company moves parcels using commercial passenger flights. Airport teams sort the packages, clear them for flight, and connect them with final-mile carriers.&...
Welcome to The New Warehouse Podcast. In this episode, Kevin welcomes Yan Sim, founder of Operating Crew, to explore profitable fulfillment partnerships. Their conversation tackles a familiar challenge: winning business while protecting margins. Brands want savings, and 3PLs need enough profit to deliver reliable service.
Operating Crew helps brands improve their supply chains through 3PL selection, packaging, and parcel shipping. S...
Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, where we take a closer look at freight performance.
Guest Lance Healy, CEO and co-founder of Freight Facts, explains how shipper scores could reshape carrier relationships. His company turns carrier data into measurable insights about shipping operations.
The conversation explores less-than-truckload transportation, warehouse accountability, and better rate negotiations.
Warehouses have invested heavily in better visibility inside the four walls. The yard can be a different story. On this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, Kevin sits down with Ilhan Kolko, President and Managing Director at Aviro360, a company focused on real-time yard visibility and gate automation.
Built out of logistics operator ConGlobal, Aviro360 combines computer vision, AI, and lightweight hardware to track what is happeni...
Warehouse automation has historically worked best in predictable environments. Physical AI could change that. On this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, Kevin sits down with Mason Cole, Director of Sales for North America at Sereact.
Sereact develops AI software and robotic systems designed to perceive, reason, and adapt inside warehouse operations. Mason explains zero-shot picking, AI-powered vision, and dual-arm robotics. More ...
Returns management is often treated as a necessary headache on the edge of warehouse operations. On this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, Kevin is joined by Kyle Bertin, co-founder and CEO of Two Boxes, and Shauna Bowen, EVP and Chief Digital and Transformation Officer at Radial.
Two Boxes provides technology for processing returns inside fulfillment and distribution centers. Radial is a global 3PL serving e-commerce and B2C br...
Warehouse automation is advancing quickly, but choosing the right technology is getting harder. On this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, Kevin welcomes Chris Morgan, Head of R&D at Toyota Automated Logistics. Morgan works across emerging technologies, new product development, robotics, and warehouse systems.
The conversation explores where warehouse automation is headed and what operators should be watching now. Morgan disc...
Before you start looking for your next warehouse, have you asked how much more you can get from the one you already have? Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast. Kevin sits down with Jan Zizka, CEO and co-founder of Brightpick. Together, they discuss what it takes to make automation work and maximize capacity in the warehousing industry.
Brightpick combines mobile robots, AI, and robotic manipulation to automate pickin...
As a long-time owner of a Carhartt Duck Detroit Jacket, I was especially interested in how its distribution centers operate. Today’s episode of The New Warehouse welcomes Austin Myers. Myers is the senior manager of distribution center engineering at Carhartt.
The family-owned company now operates five distribution centers spanning Carhartt-managed and DHL-operated facilities. Tune in for a practical look at how Carhartt...
Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, featuring Saurabh Gupta, CTO of GreyOrange. The company began by building warehouse robots. It has since expanded its focus toward software and physical AI orchestration across fulfillment, manufacturing, and retail.
Gupta joins Kevin to discuss what physical AI orchestration actually means for warehouses. They explore the evolving relationship between WMS and WES platforms, the ...
Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, featuring Jim Heffernan, Executive Vice President of Fulfillment at The Armstrong Company. Armstrong operates more than 150 physical locations nationwide, with Heffernan leading fulfillment operations from Southern California.
Drawing on more than 30 years in the industry, Heffernan explains why successful 3PL leadership starts with people. His approach to leading well at a 3PL c...
Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, featuring Dave Ginbey, founder and chief evangelist at PalletVision. The company uses camera-based technology to capture pallet condition, dimensions, wrapping activity, and other shipment data at the stretch-wrapper.
The idea grew out of a problem Ginbey repeatedly encountered in warehouses. Teams were taking pallet photos with digital cameras and personal phones, only to strugg...
Today’s guest on The New Warehouse Podcast is Richard Heath, President and CEO of TALKE USA. TALKE specializes in chemical and petrochemical logistics, with operations spanning transportation, warehousing, material handling, packaging, and other value-added services. Founded in 1947, the company grew from transportation into increasingly specialized chemical logistics.
Heath explains why chemical warehousing requires a differe...
Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, recorded at Toyota Material Handling North America’s headquarters in Columbus, Indiana. Kevin is joined by Brett Wood, President and CEO of Toyota Material Handling North America.
Wood looks at where forklifts and material handling are heading next. The conversation covers electrification, automation, operator experience, customer-driven innovation, and Toyota’s long-...
On today's episode, we jump into the topic of physical AI in the warehouse. I'm joined by Dave Paratore, CEO of Berkshire Grey, to explore physical AI’s growing role inside modern warehouses.
If you aren’t familiar with Berkshire Grey, they develop AI-enabled robotics for picking, sortation, and trailer unloading. Dave explains how these systems perceive changing conditions, make decisions, and complete physical ta...
Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast. Kevin is joined by Ariane Mary Kemper, co-founder and COO of eGourmet Solutions. The cold chain 3PL specializes in frozen and refrigerated fulfillment.
The company began 20 years ago as a frozen-food retail business. Today, eGourmet has five U.S. locations. It reaches 80% of the U.S. population in one day and 100% in two. Kemper shares lessons on D2C economics, actionable data, A...
Peer Robotics CEO and co-founder Rishabh Agarwal is today’s guest on The New Warehouse Podcast. Peer Robotics develops collaborative mobile robots designed to automate material movement across manufacturing and warehouse environments. Its Peer 3000 platform moves pallets and supports applications including trailer loading and unloading.
In the conversation, Agarwal looks beyond what the robot can physically do. He explains why...
Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast. Today’s guest is Chad Carleton, CEO of Good Company, a direct-to-consumer e-commerce 3PL in Springfield, Missouri. The business grew from the fulfillment operation behind Everything Kitchens after an outside brand asked the team to handle its fragile dinnerware shipments.
Today, Good Company expects to ship four to five million orders across only 20 clients. Carleton explai...
Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, recorded at Traba’s Manhattan office. Kevin is joined by Akshay Buddiga, co-founder and CTO of Traba, and engineering director Jeff Chen. Traba began by using technology and operational support to improve industrial staffing. Its next evolution is Neo, an AI operating system built for the industrial supply chain.
Buddiga and Chen explain how AI agents differ from chat...
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