The Logistics Tribe

Today's guest on the show is Knut Alicke. Knut is partner at McKinsey. He’s based in McKinsey’s Stuttgart office where he is leader of the firm’s work in manufacturing and supply chain. He advises clients on a variety of topics including supply chain management, digital supply chains and advanced analytics, and supply chain transformations. Knut is also the author of a highly regarded book on supp...

Lynn Fritz is the latest member to be inducted into the International Logistics Hall of Fame. Lynn is a true visionary in the global logistics industry. He was the Chairman and CEO of Fritz Companies until May 2001 when it was acquired by UPS. Afterwards Lynn founded the non-profit organization Fritz Institute with his own funds to support NGOs around the world with humanitarian logistics. Today L...

Today's guest is Dr. Yossi Sheffi. Yossi is professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL). He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis and supply chain management, which are the subjects he researches and teaches at MIT, both at the MIT School of Engineering and at the S...

Aike Festini is CEO and Co-Founder of Luckabox, an innovative startup from Switzerland. Over 40% of delivery costs are incurred during the last miles of the delivery process. Here, traditional delivery services often experience problems with coordination. Luckabox is helping prominent brands and retailers like IKEA, Decathlon, Migros and Metro with this last, essential phase of the delivery proces...

In this episode of The Logistics Tribe, Boris Felgendreher, founder of The Logistics Tribe, talks to his fellow Tribe podcast host Marco Prüglmeier. First they give an update on how The Logistics Tribe has been received after the first 25 episode. What shows have been performing best, in which markets The Tribe has been trending on the Apple Podcast charts and how the Tribe will evolve over time....

In today's episode of The Logistics Tribe we will take a look at why and how the mainstream media has been covering the global supply chain crisis. The topic is getting a tremendous amount of attention right now. The President of the United States spoke out and intervened in the current transportation and supply chain situation and the headlines in major news outlets and the evening news around th...

The ongoing semiconductor shortage has been sending ripples across our supply chains for many months now, with no end in sight. But the story of what exactly is going on and what products and industries are affected keeps evolving. So we invited Richard Barnett, CMO at Supplyframe to give our audience of logistics and supply chain professionals on The Logistics Tribe Podcast a crash course on the...

This is the story of a brilliant mechanical engineer in his 20s named Max Olson who had a crazy idea of how to revolutionize container transportation on the ocean. Contrary to what everybody else in the industry is doing - building larger and larger container vessels for economies of scale - Max set out to design small, hydrofoiling, remote-controlled speed boats that could carry 3 standard size o...

Our guest today on The Logistics Tribe is Karsten Keil. Karsten is member of the Management Board at Schnellecke Logistics and heads up the the groups IT and Digitization efforts. Together with our host Marco Prüglmeier, Karsten talks about how Schnellecke, a traditional, family-owned, globally-operating logistics provider with more than 75 years of experience is managing innovations and their dig...

The current crisis in global ocean freight has impacted supply chains, businesses and consumers around the world. It is one of the most important business topics of the year. And a lot has been written about it already, even in the mainstream press. But this episode of The Logistics Tribe Podcast offers one of the most clear and comprehensive analyses of the situation, yet. Our guest Jochen Gutsch...

This episode of The Logistics Tribe is about the current state and future of intralogistics planning. Our host Marco Prüglmeier sat down with Tobias Herwig. Tobias is part of the management team at ipolog, an intralogistics and production planning software company based in Germany. He’s also the host of “Fabrik der Zukunft”, a German speaking podcast about the factory of the future. So both Marco...

Today's episode of The Logistics Tribe is dedicated to the topic of MQTT. MQTT is a messaging protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT). If you work in logistics and supply chain management, you really need to get up to speed on this very important technology that is such a key enabler for connecting devices, vehicles, assets, sensors, etc. Our guest Dominik Obermaier is a key expert in this field...

Jonah McIntire is the founder of TNX Logistics, an AI-based road transportation procurement platform that Jonah just sold to Transporeon. He is also author of the book "Supply Chain Visibility: From Theory to Practice". Jonah holds many contrarian views around logistics and supply chain tech in particular. So this conversation turned into a wide-ranging thought-provoking discussion with our host B...

Erik Wirsing is leading Global Innovations at DB Schenker, one of the largest logistics providers in the world, with over 75.000 people and over 17 billion Euros in annual revenue. In that role, it's vitally important to keep a close eye on the trends, technologies and innovations that are changing the industry. And as change is happening faster and faster it's more important than ever to frequent...

Bern Grush, Chief Innovation Officer for Harmonize Mobility, Inc., is a Canadian transportation innovator trained in Human Factors Psychology and Systems Design Engineering from the Universities of Toronto and Waterloo (Ontario), respectively. He brings a unique urban-sensitivity to vehicle automation from both a human-social perspective and a complex-systems perspective. Bern is the principal aut...

Today's episode of the Logistics Tribe is dedicated to the topic of IoT-enabled real-time traceability and visibility in the supply chain. Our guests today are Miro Skorepa and Charles Bourbonnais, Co-CEOs of HIVE-ZOX, a startup based in Switzerland, that enables seamless, autonomous, low-cost real-time tracking of objects in your supply chain. Down to the item level. Something that is really attr...

This episode of The Logistics Tribe was recorded at the IFOY Award Test Days 2021. Our host Marco Prüglmeier talked to Gordon Riske, CEO of Kion Group and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Association for Materials Handling and Intralogistics (VDMA) and to Wolfgang Hillinger, CEO of DS Automotion. Together they discuss the following topics: Segment with Gordon Riske: - The most important tech...

If you believe that blockchain technology is overhyped or not as relevant to the world of logistics and supply chain as many have promised when the technology first appeared on people's radar a few years back, then think again. Blockchain technology is following an exponential growth curve and has seen some major improvements. It's time for a fresh look at what the technology is up to and how it w...

Our guest Penelope Register-Shaw is having an impressive career in logistics. She went from being an attorney in private practice to driving innovations in last-mile logistics at FedEx, Amazon and Walmart. Our host Dana von der Heide is a successful founder in the logistics tech space. In this episode of The Logistics Tribe, these two role models talk about the importance of female empowerment in...

Eric Johnson is Senior Editor for Technology at the Journal of Commerce. Together with our host Boris Felgendreher Eric talks about the logistics technology and startups that he is particularly interested in or excited about. This turned into a wide-ranging conversation about logtech and startups past, present and future. We talked about robotic process automation (RPA), digital freight forwarders...

Today's episode of The Logistics Tribe Podcast offers a deep dive into 5G technology and how it will be able to revolutionize logistics and supply chain operations and processes. Our guest today is Stefan Wimmer, Managing Partner at BayFu. BayFu is a German company that offers independent advice and services in the area of ​​industrial 5G radio networks. Together with our host Marco Prüglmeier, St...

Today's guest on The Logistics Tribe Podcast is Mike Richmond, the Chief Commercial Officer of Doddle. Doddle builds technology that enables e-commerce customers to collect and return their online shopping from the place that suits them best. Together with our host, Dana von der Heide, Mike talks about the the following topics: - How Mike went from being a lawyer to being the Chief Commercial Offi...

Today's episode of the Logistics Tribe Podcast is all about ocean transportation. Since the beginning of the pandemic, ocean freight rates have skyrocketed, there are major container and equipment shortages, misallocations, heavy port congestion and disruptions of supply chains because of it. This situation did not simply happen over night. In fact, the underlying causes were a long time in the ma...

Zebra Technologies has been around since 1969 and is a true pioneer in the areas of RFID and barcode printers and scanners. Today, the company offers a wide range of solutions that intelligently connect people, assets and data in logistics, manufacturing, retail and other areas. In this episode of The Logistics Tribe Podcast, our host Marco Prüglemeier, who spent over 20 years in various logistics...

Nespresso is an operating unit of the Nestlé Group, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Nespresso is the worldwide pioneer and innovator in premium portioned coffee, to be enjoyed in the comfort of our own homes. Davide Costella is responsible for the design and the execution of the last-mile delivery strategy of Nespresso globally. In this episode of The Logistics Tribe Podcast, our host Dana von der...