the Crossdock

Eric Johnson is Senior Editor, Technology at the Journal of Commerce. He joins us in the wake of the TPM conference to unpack his biggest takeaways from the show.0:00 Cold open4:25 Tariffs at TPM9:05 Tech (AI Agents, really) at TPM27:20 AI adoption and labor dynamics40:00 Shifts in the RTTVP space50:35 Wrapup

Alex and Noah – two of the founding team at Takt – make the long trek from the suite directly above the Crossdock to talk about all things warehouse operations. Takt is the warehouse intelligence platform aimed at helping retailers, 3PLs and e-commerce companies better manage their warehouse workforces. You can find them at takt.io.

CEO and Co-Founder of freight intelligence platform GenLogs stops in to the Crossdock to share his journey and background in freight tech and intelligence. Ryan shared with us his announcement of a new service that GenLogs will be offering for free to help anyone locate stolen or missing assets that might be out on the roads. (Skip to 42:00 if you want to catch that.) 0:00 - Intro 7:10 - Starting up GenLogs 19:42 - GenLogs' data gathering approach 24:39 - GenLogs' asset locator 34:10 - Deploying a roadside network 42:07 - Announcing free service to locate missing assets 54:26 - Combatting fraud with this data 1:05:53 - Raising money and developing the business 1:22:25 - Wrap-up and upcoming conferences

Our interns from this summer wrapped up their time with us this week, and stopped into the studio to reflect on their experience before heading back to UVA.

In preparation for launching our new partnership with TranPak, we recorded this conversation with their founder, Christian Ueland. CargoSense's QR Sensor technology will be embedded on TranPak's reusable plastic pallets beginning this year. 0:00 Intro and partnership origins 2:28 Eureka moment with QR Sensors 3:30 What’s a QR Sensor? 4:46 Plastic pallets and measuring ROI 7:02 QR Sensors meet the data needs for plastic pallets 9:42 Cost of deployment vs active sensor tech 14:07 Untapped use cases for pallet-driven data

Recorded in Dec 2023, so please excuse our belated season's greetings. A wrapup of the year at CargoSense: the message we've been taking to market, how our platform is evolving, and what we're hearing the most from customers and new connections alike. 0:00 Intro 2:27 Conference rundown 7:47 Twins & Agents: why this framing works 10:37 Twins: real-time state representation 22:00 Data lakes: not enough to solve problems 28:18 Agents: extensible automation 37:26 Stop trying to bend tools to fit your ops 48:05 Allowing customers stop hunting features and start attacking problems 52:00 Getting max value from point solutions 1:08:24 Wrapup and upcoming conferences

These days, prefab construction is so much more than stamping out the same module over and over. Amy Marks – the "Queen of Prefab" – joins us this week to cannonball into the deep end of where industralized construction is headed. We get into a vision of construction at every layer – architecture, planning, procurement, transport, and assembly – that is informed and driven by digital twins, simulation, and artificial intelligence.

Sam stops by the Crossdock to dive in on cybersecurity in vehicles – system architectures, attack vectors, and why it matters. He's a Cybersecurity Hardware Engineer on a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory working in this space to keep shipments of radioactive material and nuclear fuel safe.

We had Mike Jones from Pallet Alliance in at CargoSense HQ for some meetings this week, and luckily we had some time to squeeze in a quick recording before he left. Our discussion with Mike touches on what Pallet Alliance (sometimes referred to as TPA), in business since 1995, does for their customers through professionally managed pallet programs, and how the introduction of connective tech into the pallet itself unlocks all sorts of possibilities for automated supply chain operations through software. You can learn more about Pallet Alliance at tpai.com. 0:00 Bónus pig 1:50 Intro 4:25 Conferences and trick-or-treaters 7:12 What does Pallet Alliance do? 12:53 Frankenpallets 17:44 The pallet's role in sustainability efforts 28:45 Getting to pallet-level visibility and automation 43:41 TPA's typical customer profile and problems solved 53:38 Wrap-up

Colleagues from our Engineering team stop by the Crossdock during our "Summer Summit" to share perspectives on the LiveView frontend module from the Phoenix framework, which we use extensively at CargoSense. Appearing on this episode: Ben Wilson, CTO Billy Lanchantin, Principal Engineer Sara Flemming, Lead UX Developer Mike Crumm, Principal Engineer

Rich is the founder and CEO of CargoSense. He's on to talk about our recent work with Merck, and our approach to analyzing time-critical parcel networks at scale.