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GSCW chat recap: Lessons from moving parts in a pandemic

This fireside chat recap is from Day 4 of FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week. Day 4 focuses on automotive.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Keeping parts moving online, in stores and through dealerships 

DETAILS:  Daimler Trucks North America relies on e-commerce, its dealerships, parts distribution centers and analytics to get truck parts to the right place as quickly as possible. Richard Simons oversees all of it.

SPEAKER: Richard Simons, general manager of parts sales and marketing for Daimler Trucks 

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Turn questionable suspects into actual prospects

Freight brokers play an important role in the transportation ecosystem – bridging the gap between empty trucks and shippers with product to move. As integral as the job is, it can also be frustrating as they prospect using tools that have been largely the same for years. The tools force them to send hundreds of emails and make dozens of calls each day, usually to prospects who have little to no interest in what they are offering. Most of those reach-outs never lead anywhere, and the ones that...

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