The Future of Supply Chain

Episode 106: All Things Transportation with Westernacher's Matt Paulaitis


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    In this week’s episode we discuss the trends, challenges and opportunities in the area of transportation management with Westernacher’s Matt Paulaitis.
    Matt discusses challenges such as organizational silos, tariff impacts, and the need for unified data, and the role of predictive analytics, machine learning, and AI integration to optimize operations and enhance real-time decision-making. Matt also explained why companies are investing Companies are investing in digital supply chain systems and collaborative portals to increase agility, resilience, and operational efficiency.


    Come join us as we discuss the Future of Supply Chain.

    Guest: Matt Paulaitis, Transportation Management Sales Lead – North America, Westernacher 

    Matt Paulaitis is a Senior Consultant and Sales Lead for Transportation Management with 8 years of consulting experience. With a strong background in ERP Implementations, he has led initiatives that improved business outcomes by implementing supply chain solutions that provided actionable insights that drove strategic decisions. Currently, Matt works at Westernacher, where he oversees Transportation Management Sales to innovate business’ digital supply chains.

    Matt is Passionate about leveraging data to solve complex problems within an organization’s transportation logistics division. Matt aims to empower organizations with clear and impactful analytics that allow companies to expand past silos of information to make key organizational decisions. Outside of work, Matt enjoys running, working out and researching new technologies in the supply chain industry.

    Host: Richard Howells, SAP

    Richard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.

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