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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 the world are full of supply chain stories and attempts to explain what’s going on.

So we invited two journalists onto the show today who have been covering the world of transportation,...

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 situation.

Richard is a bonafide expert on the value chains of global manufacturing companies. Together with our host Boris Felgendreher, he discussed the following topics:

- Richard’s background in global supply chain management...

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 ocean containers from China to the US West coast in less than 5 days. Instead of the normal 15 days of transit time.

How Max came up with this crazy idea, how the...

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 digital transformation efforts. Together Karsten and Marco touch on the following topics:

- How digital innovation and transformation is managed at Schnellecke globally and how it fits into to IT organization

- What the main innovations are that Karsten's team is...

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 Gutschmidt has spent over three decades on all sides of the ocean freight equation. 20 years in leading roles at Maersk and 10 years at Nestlé and his most recent role at maritime...

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 and Tobias are intralogistics experts and in this episode they discussed the following topics:

- Tobias's career and background in logistics inside of factories

- ipolog, an intralogistics and production planning software company

- The...

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. He is CTO and co-founder at HiveMQ and also the co-author of the book “The Technical Foundations of IoT”.

Together with our host Marco Prüglmeier, Dominik discusses the following topics:...

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 Boris Felgendreher on the following topics:

- Why startups are much less about a grand vision and more about trial-and-error and opportunism

- What the first version of TNX Logistics looked liked like and why that didn’t work

- What actually...

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 frequently adjust your point of view on the innovations and technologies that really matter

So our host Boris Felgendreher sat down with Erik to find out what Eric has actually changed his mind on...

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 author of the 2018 textbook “The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Autonomous Vehicles”. He is the inventor of a management platform for transit-user microsubsidies being piloted in the EU, and the project leader for ISO technical standard 4448: “Sidewalk and kerb operations...