3PL Live

In this episode, I speak with Michael Schember of American Group about meeting his Co-Founder Daniel Krivickas at West Ex.

We learn that American group is up 100% YOY in Revenue during covid times.  They have been shipping a lot of alcohol and PPE.

Mike wanted to better control his customer experience by paying for an invoice if needed by a carrier. Carriers have expense accounts for entertainment, but it’s harder to get an invoice waived if you’re a carrier sales rep.

In their early days, Schember and Krivickas would work in the kitchen with manual processes, a pen, paper, and phones in the early days. They created Bill of Ladings in Microsoft Word, but that wasn’t scalable.

Six months in, they invested in 3PL Systems, a TMS. They wanted to make sure they had a business before investing in software.

American Group now has 32 full-time employees and 60 sales agents. I enjoyed speaking with Mike as he’s down to earth and a great business leader."

I am excited to share an interview with David Cornwell, Director of Business development about automation, machine learning, and Optical Character recognition in the supply chain

Hubtran is able to 4x payable processing time by automating some routine tasks.  Their system integrates with 3PL Systems, McLeod, and MercuryGate, among others.  

In our first podcast episode, Jeremy Thone interviews Matt Mugar founder of Boa Logistics about his founding story.  We talk about how Matt worked at Fred Segal and by chance got a job as a freight sales rep at Diversified Transportation in Los Angeles. Matt and his partner went off on their own and now have 55 employees and a 55,000 square foot warehouse Stay tuned to hear the episode and learn some tips.

Boa is a nimble, flexible company that prefers to look at the road (or rail) ahead of us rather than behind us. We believe in providing our clients with unlikely, forward-thinking solutions that use technology to grow their business. And we believe in genuine customer service and lasting relationships. Because when you hire Boa, we’ll be with you for the long haul.