Talking Logistics Podcasts

All through 2025, companies have been dealing with numerous challenges: cost pressures, regulatory changes, new tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty — and the outlook for 2026 is more of the same. The simple truth is that...

Since 2017, Descartes has conducted an annual benchmark survey of global transportation professionals to identify the strategies, tactics, and expectations for the industry. In this episode, Mike Hane, Director, Product...

This Talking Logistics episode is part of a special series we’re calling “Powering the Breakthrough in Logistics.” Talking Logistics’ host Adrian Gonzalez is a big supporter of Breakthrough T1D (the leading charity...

Global trade management has always been a highly complex, risky, and strategic business process, despite it being underappreciated at many companies historically. However, if there is one good thing about the tariff...

For years, outsourcing was the default strategy for transportation management. But the tide is turning. In this episode, we explore why more companies are taking control of their transportation operations by bringing...

Pando and JBF Consulting published a research report titled, “The State of AI in Logistics 2025” with data and insights gathered from in-depth interviews with senior supply chain and logistics executives across several...

2025 has been a roller coaster ride for supply chain and global trade executives. It’s not just that new tariffs have been implemented on U.S. imports from virtually every country in the world, it’s that these tariffs...

When it comes to working with suppliers, customers, and logistics service providers, most companies still take a “What’s In It for Me?” approach to business relationships instead of a “What’s In It for We?” approach...

We’re still in the first quarter of 2025, but we already have a strong contender for Word of the Year: tariffs. Since inauguration day, tariffs have dominated the headlines, with so many back-and-forth changes happening...

Here we are at the beginning of 2025. What developments and trends will shape the year ahead? Well, if we learned anything from 2020 is that predicting in January what will happen in the weeks and months ahead is a...

In April 2024, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies — if they had experienced cargo...

Waste and inefficiencies still exist in many areas of transportation management. One area that is getting a lot of attention, especially in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, is transportation procurement. Why has the...

If you’ve seen the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you know the following quote: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Nowhere is that truer than in the supply...

2025 is just around the corner and many companies are developing their transportation budgets and strategies for the coming year. Are you going to be proactive in driving change and continuous improvement in 2025 or...

So, how resilient is your supply chain? The honest answer for many companies, which they learned the hard way during the Covid pandemic, is that their supply chains are not very resilient — that is, not able to adapt...