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Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Joanna Pachnik
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Joanna Pachnik
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Zoe Upson
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Zoe Upson
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Mia Mazal
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Mia Mazal
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Holly LaBoda
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Holly LaBoda
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Claudia Beumer
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Claudia Beumer
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Rebecca Farrall
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Rebecca Farrall
Logistics Burnout Is Real. Here's How I Keep Mine in Check.
Burnout is practically built into logistics. Between managing clients, wrangling carriers, tracking down elusive paperwork and putting out fires you didn't start, the stress just keeps coming, and most of us treat it like part of the job. It doesn't have to be. The thing that's actually kept me sane isn't working less or caring less, it's a handful of specific habits that stop the stress from piling up. Here's what I've adopted to keep my cortisol low and my head clear, even on the days the freight gods are testing me.
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Katie Jo “KJ” Swaggert
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Katie Jo “KJ” Swaggert
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Jenni Ruiz
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Jenni Ruiz
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Sofia Rivas Herrera
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Sofia Rivas Herrera
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Krystina Booker
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Krystina Booker
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Benita Lee
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Benita Lee
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Tamie Stuttle
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Tamie Stuttle
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Taylor Pawelka
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Taylor Pawelka
Zone Skipping Isn't Just for Enterprise
If you've ever shipped a package across the country and quietly winced at the cost, zone skipping might be the strategy you didn't know you were missing. And no, you don't need to be an enterprise shipper to use it.
Most parcel carriers price shipments based on two things: density and distance. That distance is typically measured in zones, a numbering system that reflects how far a package travels from its origin point. The further it goes, the higher the zone number, and the more expensive the shipment. Basically, Zone 2 is practically your neighbour. Zone 8 is across the continent. Every zone in between has your shipping bill increasing.
3PL, 4PL, Fulfilment Partner, Freight Broker — What's the Difference and Which One Do You Actually Need?
A supply chain professional or sales person throws one of these terms at you and you nod along like you know exactly what they mean. Then you go home and google it and you’re still unsure. No judgement, half the industry uses them interchangeably and they're definitely not the same thing.
If you're an SMB shipper trying to figure out how to grow without your logistics completely unravelling, this is the breakdown you need. Let's go through each model, what it actually does, where it overlaps with the others, and, most importantly, which one fits where you are right now and how to know to switch to another.
Gorgeous Girls In Supply Chain: Valerie Carlson
Welcome to our series celebrating the incredible women in Supply Chain and Logistics! In a traditionally male-dominated field, it's important to shine a light on the inspiring women who are making a significant impact. Through a mix of insightful and fun questions, we’ll explore their journeys, challenges, and successes. While we acknowledge the contributions of everyone in this industry, this series aims to elevate the voices and stories of women who often get missed. Next up: Valerie Carlson
Female AI Presenters and the Optics of Representation in Logistics Media
FreightWaves has introduced a female AI-generated on-camera presenter into its content lineup. At the same time, visible female human representation on camera at FreightWaves appears limited. Those are observable facts.
And when a media outlet introduces a synthetic female presenter in an environment where real female on-camera representation is sparse, it creates a big optics issue, whether intentional or not.
From Buzzwords to Operational Reality: What Manifest Really Felt Like
I’ve been thinking about how to describe Manifest this year, and the only way I can really put it is this: it felt less AI centric and more operational clarity.
Last year the energy was heavily AI-driven, predictive, generative, self-operating, autonomous. And that made sense. AI was still relatively new in logistics, and there was a real sense of curiosity around what it could become. There was excitement in the room. But many of those conversations were still conceptual. The vision was big, but the operational substance wasn’t quite fully formed yet.
AI was still there this year. Of course it was. And some companies are absolutely building toward workforce reduction. That’s real, and pretending it isn’t would be naive. But the dominant tone in the conversations I was having wasn’t “we’re replacing people.” It was much more grounded. It was about removing friction, increasing access and simplifying workflows.
Consultant or Clarity? What Your Supply Chain Really Needs
Not every supply chain issue requires a logistics consultant. But not every problem can be solved by Googling “why are my freight costs so high?” at 11:47 p.m on a Sunday night.
For small and mid-sized businesses, knowing the difference can save serious money. I’ve seen companies spend tens of thousands on consulting when what they really needed was education and resources. I’ve also seen companies try to “figure it out internally” while quietly bleeding cash for years.
The question isn’t whether consultants are good or bad. The question is: what kind of problem are you actually dealing with?