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Ho do you orchestrate your intralogistics operations when you have AGVs and AMRs from different vendors, traditional forklifts, conveyor belts and people working side-by-side in your warehouse and production facilities?

Our guest today is Wolfgang Hackenberg, one of the founders of Synaos, a startup based in Germany that is building a hardware-agnostic intralogistics management platform.

Together with our hosts Boris Felgendreher and Marco Prüglmeier talk about the following topics:

- The short version of what Synaos is trying to accomplish with their integrated software platform to manage intralogistics operations

- Wolfgang's background in the automotive industry and as a startup...

Today we will take a deep dive into the world of route planning and route optimization. Our guest Florian Merget is co-founder of Greenplan, a startup that was recently spun out of DHL. Greenplan’s algorithm promises to do a better job at planning and optimizing routes for last mile, road freight and even field service management.

Together with our host Boris Felgendreher, Florian talked about the following topics:

- The origins and founding story of Greenplan. The recent Management Buyout and new setup for Greenplan outside of DHL

- How route planning/optimization has evolved over the years

- What factors...

In today's episode we will take a deep dive into the topic of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM).

SLAM is a method used for autonomous vehicles such as AMRs in logistics for example that lets you build a map and localize your vehicles in that map at the same time. SLAM algorithms allow vehicles to map out unknown environments.

It’s one of those things we should all know about in more detail in order to understand how autonomous vehicles in logistics are able to do what they do.

Today's guest is a leading expert in the field of SLAM.

Cyrill...

Steve Viscelli is a political sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania where he studies freight transportation and autonomous trucks.

He's also the author of the book "The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream" in which he explains how long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue-collar jobs in the US to one of the toughest.

His current book project "Driverless? Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker" explores self-driving trucks and their potential impacts on labor and the environment.

Steve has appeared on CBS News 60 Minutes and most recently on an...

Supply Chain Visibility is an evergreen topic in the industry. But it feels like after so many years, there are still a lot more questions than answers about what visibility you actually need to run a global supply chain and how best to achieve it. The last couple of years have made that painfully obvious.

Today's guest has been trying to tackle the issue from various angles for many years. Tobias Larsson is the founder of Resilience360 and leads supply chain solutions at Altana AI.

Together with Jonah McIntire, serial logistics tech entrpreneur and another "veteran" of the field, Tobias...

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 supply chain management, and a professor at University of Karlsruhe, teaching supply chain management.

We asked Knut to give us his Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and the conversation turned into a discussion on a...

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 Lynn is regarded as the founder of logistics for humanitarian organizations. So, of course, we are very honored to have Lynn as a guest on The Logistics Tribe.

Together with our host Marco Prüglmeier,...

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 Sloan School of Management.

He is also a very prolific author of several books including:

The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected

Balancing Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in Business (and...

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 process.

Luckabox coordinates all steps necessary for an efficient and cost-effective delivery.

Aike and her team consider themselves a “Last Mile Digital Forwarder”.

In this episode of The Logistics Tribe Podcast, Aike gives our host Dana von der Heide a behind-the-scene look...

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.

Next, they dive into the startup that Marco launched and got VC funding for this year. Noyes Technologies is on a mission to define the space of nano-fulfillment. What that means and...