CarrierDirect announced Monday it has changed its name to Metafora, Greek for transportation, as the company continues expanding its full-service consulting and technology development offerings.
“When I joined, we were the best kept secret in transportation — having done incredible work with some of the biggest companies and being behind some of the most innovative work in the space,” Ryan Schreiber, vice president of industry and growth, told FreightWaves. “This change comes at a time when...
The only constant in supply chains is change, according to Tom Kieley, CEO and co-founder of SourceDay.
“Supply chain volatility is ever present, and unfortunate occurrences like COVID-19 and natural disasters and other events just exacerbate change into higher volatility,” Kieley told FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom during FreightWaves’ North American Supply Chain Summit on Tuesday. The topic was “Managing Buyer and Supplier Relationships.”
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Avoiding space debris represents one of the biggest “risks” to operating a supply chain in outer space, said Darren McKnight, a technical director for Centauri Corp.
More than 20,000 objects in Earth’s orbit are considered space debris, the majority being man-made objects, creating challenges for interstellar logistics and supply chain operations, McKnight said.
“It’s all about risk. Collision risk is important to minimize — we don’t want to run into things, we don’t want operational satellites...
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Changes in technology, labor regulations and emissions, as well as a potential driver shortage and rising insurance costs, are just some of the challenges facing the surface transportation industry, according to Dave Belter, vice president and general manager of transportation management with Ryder System (NYSE: R).
Belter told FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom during a virtual fireside chat at The Future of Logistics Real Estate summit Tuesday that there are “a lot of...
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Ryder System (NYSE: R) Chief Technology Officer Kendra Phillips cannot lean on information technology that is already in place at the third-party logistics provider. Her job is to find the next IT.
“I get to explore the future in how we leverage technology and how we bring value to our customers,” Phillips told JT Engstrom, FreightWaves’ chief strategy officer, during American Shipper’s Global Trade Tech summit Thursday.
“It’s an exciting place to be and an exciting time to be here,” she added.
Phi...
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More venture capital is flowing into the supply chain as the wealth of data gained through Internet of Things (IoT) devices and other applications continues to expand.
Paul Asel, managing partner at NGP Capital, discussed the changes in venture investment with FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom during a virtual fireside chat at the American Shipper Global Trade Tech summit.
Asel said the fundamentals of venture capital remain the same but the magnitude has changed, meaning current...
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A countercyclical truckload (TL) mergers and acquisitions market appears to have developed, at least in comparison to broader M&A or even normal TL deal flow. During a virtual fireside chat at the FreightWaves Carrier Summit on Thursday, FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom and Spencer Tenney, president and CEO, Tenney Group, discussed the current interest in trucking deals.
Tenney Group is an advisory firm focused on M&A in the transportation industry.
Tenney said broader M&A activity...
On Wednesday morning, May 6,Convoy co-founder and chief technology officer Grant Goodale joined FreightWaves chief strategy officer JT Engstrom for a conversation about the future of freight and supply chain innovation.
The conversation centered on how Convoy’s technology first drove automation in its own operations, which then allowed the company to deploy resources to make the entire supply chain more efficient. Broadly conceived, those initiatives seem to come in two large buckets. Strategic...