Today's guest is Alexander Franz, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Sennder in Berlin, who are Europe’s number one digital freight-forwarder platform for Full Truck Loads. With its in-house-developed platform, Sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market.

Sennder digitalizes the truckload-shipping ecosystem by providing mobile apps to drivers, fleet management tools to carrier managers and logistics management solutions to shippers. By integrating directly with the shippers’ Transport Management and Freight Management Systems via APIs and by cutting the multiple middlemen, Sennder increases efficiency and reduces cost for all stakeholders.

In the show, Alex will discuss:

Sennder’s services within freight shipping,

The role of Data Science and Machine Learning at Sennder,

Applying Machine Learning within dynamic pricing,

Challenges they face day-to-day working with data,

How Route planning network automation will add value to customers,

and Emerging trends he sees impacting logistics.