On this week’s episode of The Future of Supply Chain, Santosh talks with Matt Silver, CEO, and co-founder of Forager, to discuss how they’ve built a platform and a marketplace for cross-border freight. With more than 10,000,000 North American cross-border shipments a year,

Highlights from their conversation include:

• Forager’s origin (1:03)
• Matt’s path from making music videos to working in logistics (2:10)
• Orchestrating cross-border shipments and synchronizing with all the parties involved (7:18)
• Scout: Forager’s end-to-end user experience as a cloud-based TMS and marketplace (9:19)
• Operating leverage and how technology and marketplace businesses disrupt brokerages (14:04)
• Market fluctuations and pricing adjustments (20:09)
• How more companies are inserting themselves on top of the brokerages (28:06)
• Most surprising lessons learned from starting Forager (34:21)
• Rapid-fire questions: North American manufacturing, Chicago vs. Chattanooga, and freight visibility (36:11)

Founded in 2018 to help streamline the North American supply chain, Forager describes itself as the leader in cross-border logistics, Find out more at https://www.foragerscs.com/about-us.

About The Future of Supply Chain:

During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

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