3PL Summit: How to differentiate logistics providers

CEO Lee Salz talks about 3PL sales differentiation.

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How 3PLs can differentiate themselves

DETAILS: Creating differentiation for your 3PL is the key to success and growth. How do you achieve differentiation when your services are almost identical to thousands of others? Most of the time it’s not what you sell but how you sell and position your services that creates the differentiation needed to thrive in freight sales.

SPEAKER: Lee Salz, author of “Sales...

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3PL Summit: How imports drive domestic supply chains

This fireside chat recap is from the FreightWaves 3PL Summit on Wednesday, March 24.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How imports drive domestic supply chains.

DETAILS: Imports at the Port of Long Beach are at all-time highs. This fireside chat revolves around imports, congestion and how that flows into the domestic trucking market, as well as takes a look at inventory levels and semiconductors.

SPEAKERS: Ravi Dosanjh, head of strategic programming for Intel Corp., and Noel Hacegaba, deputy executive director...

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3PL Summit: Refocusing software on the customer experience

This fireside chat recap is from the 3PL Summit, presented by FreightWaves and Front.

TOPIC: Reimagining the supply chain for a better customer experience

DETAILS: Visibility is a hot-button topic in the supply chain. It’s really a symptom of a larger problem supply chains face: manual, analog processes. Supply chains must be digitally transformed to address the visibility symptom — putting the supply chain at the heart of customer experience.

SPEAKERS: Luis Pajares, chief revenue officer, Turvo;...

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3PL Summit: Carrier safety and vetting — why there’s no golden rule

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Carrier safety and vetting — why there’s no golden rule

DETAILS: Nuclear verdicts have rocked carriers over the past several years. For 3PLs, insurance requirements and vetting carriers is still opaque and the legal ramifications are significant.

SPEAKERS: Chad Eichelberger, president of Reliance Partners, and Emily Chiarizia, general counsel, Armstrong Transport Group

BIO: Eichelberger joined the Reliance team in 2015...

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3PL Summit: The new normal for procuring capacity

George Abernathy and Danny Loe at FreightWaves 3PL Summit

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: The new normal and adjusting in the face of a capacity crunch

DETAILS: A look at changes brought about by the pandemic and how shippers are approaching transportation capacity.

INTERVIEWER and SPEAKER: George Abernathy, president of FreightWaves, and Danny Loe, president of asset-light logistics and chief yield officer for ArcBest.

BIO: Loe was tapped to lead ArcBest’s asset-light segment in September in addition to...

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3PL Summit: Front executive leans into optimism

This episode of Fuller Speed Ahead is part of the FreightWaves 3PL Summit and focuses on workplace efficiency no matter where that work is done.

CHAT TOPIC: Efficiency at work matters no matter where work is done

DETAILS: A Fuller Speed Ahead discussion on how to make email a competitive advantage in business no matter where that business is conducted 

SPEAKER: LB Harvey, chief revenue and success officer, Front  

BIO: Prior to Front, Harvey was the senior vice president of sales, success and...

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3PL Summit: Delivering better digital experience through human-centered design

This Point of Sale recap is from the FreightWaves 3PL Summit

POINT OF SALE TOPIC: Delivering a better digital freight experience through human-centered design and technology

DETAILS: Digitization and automation are often thought of as creating more distant relationships between 3PLs and carriers. Lily Shen and Andrew Cox discuss how digitization can create closer relationships between 3PLs and their carrier and shipper partners.

SPEAKER: Shen is president and CEO of Transfix

BIO: With more than...

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Preview: FreightWaves 3PL Summit, March 24

FreightWaves 3PL Summit

March 24, 2021 – Virtual Event

It’s the pros in the middle that keep the freight moving. After 2-3 years of relative calm in the freight brokerage markets, 2020 took a hard turn. The 2021 3PL Summit will highlight the best technology and practices to guide you to success this year.

Hear discussions on multi-modal optimization, customer relations, sales insights, market insights, pricing strategies and much more. See the leaders who have shaped the industry as it stands today and the innovators...

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Supply chain expert joins FreightWaves as adviser

Matt Waller, a renowned authority on supply chain management and industry trends, has joined FreightWaves in an advisory capacity.

Waller is the dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business and a supply chain management professor at the University of Arkansas. He was the 2020 recipient of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ Distinguished Service Award. And he is no stranger to FreightWaves, having appeared on a number of programs, including Freightonomics, and spoken at events...

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