Talking Logistics Podcasts

All through 2025, companies have been dealing with numerous challenges: cost pressures, regulatory changes, new tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty — and the outlook for 2026 is more of the same. The simple truth is that the ‘way things were’ isn’t coming back. In this episode, Mike Regan, Co-Founder and Chief of Relationship Development at TranzAct Technologies, ... Read more The post [Video] Leading Through The 5 Stages of Grief in Supply Chain Management appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

Since 2017, Descartes has conducted an annual benchmark survey of global transportation professionals to identify the strategies, tactics, and expectations for the industry. In this episode, Mike Hane, Director, Product Marketing at Descartes shares some of the key findings and takeaways from this year’s report. Podcast version (click to play): The post [Video] Insights From Descartes’ 2025 Transportation Management Survey appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

This Talking Logistics episode is part of a special series we’re calling “Powering the Breakthrough in Logistics.” Talking Logistics’ host Adrian Gonzalez is a big supporter of Breakthrough T1D (the leading charity focused on finding a cure for type 1 diabetes) and the word “breakthrough” got him thinking: What type of breakthroughs do we need ... Read more The post [Video] AI, Networks, And The Road To Supply Chain Breakthroughs appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

Global trade management has always been a highly complex, risky, and strategic business process, despite it being underappreciated at many companies historically. However, if there is one good thing about the tariff wars we’re in at the moment is that global trade management is now in the spotlight, including the role and importance of Global ... Read more The post [Video] AI Innovations In Global Trade Intelligence Technology appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

For years, outsourcing was the default strategy for transportation management. But the tide is turning. In this episode, we explore why more companies are taking control of their transportation operations by bringing them back in-house. What’s driving this shift? How are technology, talent, and AI enabling smarter, faster, and more resilient logistics? And what should ... Read more The post [Video] Why Shippers Are Insourcing Transportation Management appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

Pando and JBF Consulting published a research report titled, “The State of AI in Logistics 2025” with data and insights gathered from in-depth interviews with senior supply chain and logistics executives across several industries. In this Talking Logistics episode, Abi Manohar, CTO and Co-Founder of Pando.ai, and Mike Mulqueen, Executive Principal for Strategy & Innovation ... Read more The post [Video] What is the State of AI in Logistics? appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

2025 has been a roller coaster ride for supply chain and global trade executives. It’s not just that new tariffs have been implemented on U.S. imports from virtually every country in the world, it’s that these tariffs keep changing, sometimes within just a few days. All of this back-and-forth change is adding risk and complexity ... Read more The post [Video] Five Practical & Effective Ways To Mitigate Tariff Impacts appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

When it comes to working with suppliers, customers, and logistics service providers, most companies still take a “What’s In It for Me?” approach to business relationships instead of a “What’s In It for We?” approach. The problem is with the mindset and approach each side has traditionally taken, according to Kate Vitasek, faculty member at ... Read more The post Rethinking Business Relationships in Supply Chain Management appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

We’re still in the first quarter of 2025, but we already have a strong contender for Word of the Year: tariffs. Since inauguration day, tariffs have dominated the headlines, with so many back-and-forth changes happening almost on a daily basis, it’s been difficult for supply chain and global trade professionals to keep up. One of ... Read more The post [Video] The Logistics of the De Minimis Entry appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

Here we are at the beginning of 2025. What developments and trends will shape the year ahead? Well, if we learned anything from 2020 is that predicting in January what will happen in the weeks and months ahead is a fool’s errand. All we can say for sure is that 2025 will be unpredictable, risky, ... Read more The post [Video] Crisis, Chaos, And The Road Ahead: The New Era Of Supply Chains appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

In April 2024, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies — if they had experienced cargo theft or other types of freight fraud in the past year. Almost half said they had experienced theft or fraud in ... Read more The post [Video] Combating Fraud in the Freight Industry appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

Waste and inefficiencies still exist in many areas of transportation management. One area that is getting a lot of attention, especially in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, is transportation procurement. Why has the time come to reimagine and transform transportation procurement? What factors are driving this need? How can technology help make transportation procurement ... Read more The post [Video] Reimagining Transportation Procurement: Leveraging Data and Technology for Smarter Freight Decisions appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

If you’ve seen the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you know the following quote: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Nowhere is that truer than in the supply chain and logistics realm, and especially when it comes to technology. With so much ... Read more The post [Video] Navigating the Big Trends in Logistics Technology: How to Position Yourself for Implementation Success appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

2025 is just around the corner and many companies are developing their transportation budgets and strategies for the coming year. Are you going to be proactive in driving change and continuous improvement in 2025 or will you take a “let’s wait and see what happens” approach? Mike Regan, Co-Founder and Chief of Relationship Development at ... Read more The post [Video] The Dangers of Doing Nothing in Transportation Management appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

So, how resilient is your supply chain? The honest answer for many companies, which they learned the hard way during the Covid pandemic, is that their supply chains are not very resilient — that is, not able to adapt and recover from disruptions very quickly and effectively. That is why, over the past few years, ... Read more The post [Video] Operational Resilience in Action: A Practical Guide for Supply Chain Leaders appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

One of things companies have learned about e-commerce is that everything can go right up to the time a customer clicks the “Buy” button, but if you don’t get the rest of the order fulfillment process right, it can have negative consequences — not only with regards to customer experience and satisfaction, but financially too. ... Read more The post [Video] Omnilife: An E-commerce Fulfillment and Delivery Success Story appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

There is a common thread among many logistics professionals: they almost all fell into this industry — that is, they didn’t study supply chain or logistics in college, or they didn’t start their careers in the field, but they eventually landed in the industry, fell in love with it, and have never looked back. Why ... Read more The post [Video] Choosing A Career In Logistics appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

If you’re a transportation executive, you’re always looking for ways to reduce costs, improve service, satisfy customers, and help the business meet its financial and strategic objectives. There are many ways to reduce waste and improve efficiencies in transportation management, and in this latest installment of “Profiles in Transportation Management Excellence,” Jeff Bishop, Category Manager ... Read more The post [Video] Profiles In Transportation Management Excellence: Molson Coors’ Success With Drop And Hook appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

Forced labor has been a problem in supply chain management for a long time. The good news is that over the past few years governments and companies have been taking action to help eradicate this problem. That said, it’s not an easy problem to solve. In a survey we conducted with members of our Indago ... Read more The post [Video] Mitigating Forced Labor Risks: Strategies For A Resilient Supply Chain appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

If you’re on the front lines of transportation management, you know there’s never a dull moment in this industry. Whether you’re navigating the ebbs and flow of capacity and rates, or you’re dealing with new regulations or customer requirements, finding the right balance between cost, service, risk, and compliance is more difficult than ever. Since ... Read more The post [Video] Key Factors Shaping Transportation Management in 2024 appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.