Perspectives

The peak holiday season is a critical time for shippers, retailers, and supply chain executives, with increased demand and heightened customer expectations. To ensure a successful peak season, it is essential to optimize your middle-mile strategy, by leveraging assets, and scaling operations effectively to maximize efficiency. In this post, we will explore key steps and strategies to help you optimize your middle-mile operations for a successful holiday season.

In the world of logistics and supply chain management, the term "sortation" often invokes images of complex, intimidating systems and infrastructure. It is time to debunk the myths surrounding sortation and highlight its benefits. By understanding how package sortation works and embracing its efficiency, businesses can streamline their operations, improve customer satisfaction, and stay ahead in a competitive marketplace.

CloudSort CEO, Derek Szopa, takes inspiration from Starlink, agruing that their use of mesh network principles can fundamentally reshape the logistic industry. His article was recently published in Supply Chain Brain.

Effective supply chain execution is vital to staying ahead of the competition in today's rapidly evolving global marketplace. This article provides actionable tips and strategies for enhancing your company's supply chain performance, unlocking its many benefits, and leveraging supply chain execution applications to optimize your operations.

In our industry, managing resources effectively is vital for ensuring timely deliveries, reducing costs, and keeping customers satisfied. Failure to manage capacity can lead to delays, missed shipments, and dissatisfied customers.

Optimizing your supply chain is crucial for businesses to stay competitive. Discover how to automate processes, improve transparency, build strong relationships, and optimize inventory management to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction.

As a logistics executive, transitioning from traditional warehousing to and embracing warehouse digital transformation can be a daunting task. However, with the right approach and knowledge, it can also be a major opportunity to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction.

Podcaster Timothy Dooner is an icon, and his show, What the Truck?!?, is one of our favorites to listen to. So it’s no wonder that our founder and CEO, Derek Szopa, jumped at the chance to be interviewed by him. Derek’s only regret? Not being able to get a hold of the amazing “Dark Helmet” hats for himself. Here's an excerpt of their conversation.

Kevin Lawton, the host of The New Warehouse podcast, sat down with CloudSort CEO Derek Szopa recently, to chat about the middle mile — or what Kevin calls the "Jan Brady" of logistics — and how to ease the tension between supply and demand.

In this guide, we'll delve into the intricacies of how to manage warehouse space and equip you with practical tips and strategies to make the most of your floor space utilization, enhance packing and shipping processes, optimize storage locations, and more.

This week was Manifest 2023 in Las Vegas — and we took the town by storm. Big thanks are in order for making this such a successful trade show for us.

With the help of three cutting-edge digital technologies, supply chain leaders can automate routine tasks, gain real-time visibility into their operations, and make more informed decisions, leading to a more efficient and cost-effective supply chain.

Understanding the distinction between inbound and outbound logistics is important in streamlining supply chain operations, hiring the right people, and making informed decisions about the transportation and storage of goods.

An official press release, in advance of our participation at Manifest 2023 trade show. Manifest Vegas brings together the most comprehensive ecosystem of innovation and transformation in supply chain and logistics—and we are excited to be there!

By staying current with these trends and embracing new innovations, supply chain executives can drive growth and success for their organizations in the ever-evolving world of logistics.

As the holiday season wraps, retailers and logistics executives faced a daunting challenge: how to prepare for the added strain that comes with the busiest shopping season of the year.

E-commerce is booming and the demand for faster, more efficient deliveries is higher than ever. The solution for supply chain executives? Ditch the old-school, analog approach to logistics and go digital.

The middle mile is often overlooked, but it can be a powerful tool for reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Derek Szopa, the CEO of CloudSort, provides some tips on how to make the most of the middle mile.

In the world of supply chain and logistics, mesh networks are becoming an increasingly popular way to manage the flow of goods. Unlike traditional hub-and-spoke architectures, which are capital intensive and rely on a central authority to make decisions about routing, mesh networks are highly distributed, with each node in the network connected to every other node.

Instead of simply leasing out that extra space for a flat fee, today’s warehouse owners can take a more active role in managing their dark real estate—by actually sorting packages.

By improving their supply chain visibility, companies can avoid disruptions and better manage their inventories. In the long term, this practice will lead to more efficient supply chains and lower costs.

If you're the head of your company's logistics, you're most likely feeling the pressure to continually optimize your operation, grow your margins, and save money.

Our bold vision: to completely reimagine how packaged goods move along the supply chain—particularly between the point of origin and the final mile.

Business leaders in every sector struggle to balance competing priorities -- it’s a universal challenge.

An increased focus on customer experience has led to a new title in the c-suite: chief experience officer.

Improved supply chain visibility can be the difference between failure and success as delivery operations become increasingly complex.

Building new supply chain capabilities in-house is hard. Acquiring them is expensive. Partnership can be the way forward.

From a further expansion of e-commerce to new in-store work-arounds and revised returns processes, retail has turned a corner.

Unprecedented. Unforeseeable. Unbelievable. Or is it? There’s an argument that in the logistics industry, at least, some of the 2020’s themes have been around for quite some time.

As transportation leaders rethink their role within their organizations, they now have an opportunity to expand their view of the metrics that matter most.

Building a robust and effective shipping network is challenging enough. There’s no need to build your own technology to achieve it.

While much of the world locked down in March 2020, one important part of it was ramping up. Overnight, the shipping industry became the lifeline for consumers who needed things.

At any given moment, it can be hard to know exactly where one package is on its journey. Where is it, between Warehouse A and Warehouse B? Which truck is it on? On which highway?