How warehouses and final-mile logistics are changing to suit the consumer
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Warehouses utilize tech to flex
Karl Siebrecht, co-founder and CEO of FLEXE, joins the show to discuss how warehouses have a changing role in making logistics work.
FLEXE services large corporations with a software platform to control workers in the warehouse, product being stored and how it’s being moved around the warehouse space.
Siebrecht says FLEXE services the biggest shippers and Fortune 500 companies across the country, but there is space for all warehouses to use their technology.
“We think there is demand from the head of the market to the tail of the market,” he says.
Final-mile logistics also must be flexible
Consumer behaviors have forced final-mile logistics to change as well. That’s something Bill Catania, founder and CEO of OneRail, realized and capitalized on. He started OneRail after an experience as a disgruntled customer at a home improvement store.
He says consumers have high expectations and OneRail capitalizes on the need for dependability in last-mile logistics.
“It’s more about can we be dependable and can we hang our brand on it,” Catania says.
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