The Logistics Tribe

Today we are talking about supply chain challenges in the automotive industry. Our guest is Robert Cameron who heads up the production, logistics and aftermarket department at the VDA, the German Automotive Industry Association.

Our host, Marco Prüglmeier, sat down with Robert at the recent Trends in Automotive Logistics (TAL) Conference in Pilsen, Czech Republic and talked about the following topics:

- Biggest challenges that are facing the automotive industry and automotive supply chains

- Why electrification of vehicles will dramatically increase the need for semiconductors

- Why large node size semiconductors are critical for electric vehicles

- The relevance...

In today's episode we explore the possibility to increase truck driver satisfaction and boost truck utilization with better planning tools and smarter algorithms.

Our guest today is Mark Farkas, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of AI Fleet, a vertically integrated technology enabled trucking company that was founded in Austin, TX in 2020.

Together with our host Jonah McIntire, Mark discusses the following topics:

- Mark's background and track record as a successful logistics tech founder

- What inspired Mark and his co-founder to build AI Fleet

- What's wrong with the business model of traditional trucking companies and why technology...

Countless attempts have been made in the last decade to leverage cutting edge technology to give companies the transportation and supply chain visibility that they need to anticipate disruptions, proactively manage risks and boost supply chain resilience.

Literally hundreds of millions of funding has been poured into tech stacks that promised to finally deliver the visibility and control that every globally operating company is craving for.

Yet, the end result of all these efforts has been quite sobering, to say the least.

So our host Boris Felgendreher invited a representative from one of the key players in the real-time-transportation visibility...

Tom Bianculli, Chief Technology Officer of Zebra Tecnologies sat down with our host Marco Prüglmeier at the recent Trends in Automotive Logistics Conference (TAL) in Pilsen, Czech Republic to discuss the following topics:

- Zebra Technologies' journey beyond the scope of scanning devices

- Why the company has completed 8 acquisitions in the last 4 years

- Zebra's venture investments

- The synergies between automation, analytics and AI

- How AI is opening up new possibilities for data analytics

- New and upcoming technologies: AI from an automation perspective, assistive AI

- Why Augmented Reality (AR) has "come back down...