Frauke Heistermann nimmt uns in dieser Podcastfolge mit durch ihren Lebenslauf: Über das Logistikstudium, ihre erste Anstellung als Beraterin, ihre  Erfolgsstory als Gründerin und ihre Investmententscheidungen. Außerdem sprechen wir über Herausforderungen von Startup-Corporate-Kooperationen, die Erfolgsfaktoren von B2B Sales und die Vielseitigkeit und Faszination der Logistik-Branche. Sie verrät uns: Wie ist man eine erfolgreiche CDO? Was ist typisch deutsches Mindset? Wie haben sich Nachhaltigkeitsmaßnahmen in den letzten Jahren geändert? Hört direkt rein ..read more

Kontinuierliches Wachstum kombiniert mit saisonalen Peaks erfordern Höchstleistungen im E-Commerce Fulfillment. Teilweise müssen bis zu 150 neue Beschäftigte pro Woche an unterschiedlichen Standorten eines Unternehmens eingelernt werden. Das dafür notwendige Training durch Job-Shadowing oder 1:1 Betreuung durch erfahrene Kolleg*innen zu lösen ist nicht machbar. Andreas Kwiatkowski kennt ihr bereits als Host unserer A2X Warehousing-Serie. Heute ist er der Interview-Gast. Er berichtet darüber was die how.fm Trainingssoftware für Lager und die Intralogistik alles parat hält: Sprachsteuerung, hint ..read more

In dieser Episode nimmt uns Martin Perters, Co-Founder und Geschäftsführer von DropFriends, mit auf die Reise seiner Startup-Gründung. Von der ersten Idee, über Gründungsformalitäten, Auswirkungen von Homeoffice und Ausgangsbeschränkungen bis zur Etablierung von über 1.400 DropPoints. Außerdem erklärt er was DropPoints überhaupt sind und welche Auswirkungen das innovative Empfangsmanagement von DropFriends auf Nachbarkeitshilfe hat. Gemeinsam mit Juliane Heßmann diskutiert er die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Packstationen, Auswirkungen von fehlgeschlagenen Zustellungen auf den CO2-Fußabdruck ..read more

What is the difference between micro and nano fulfillment? What automation solution is noyes developing in this context? Which players are needed to offer a seam-less quick commerce service? And in a much broader sense: How will the cities we are living in change because of that? Andreas Kwiatkowski interviews Noyes Founder, CEO, and CTO Marco Prüglmeier on all these questions. Additionally, Marco shares about his 22 years as an engineer working for the automotive manufacturer BMW and how he build up a new AMR business field for the company because they couldn't find a suitable robotics provid ..read more

Where you should invest to benefit from skyrocketing on-demand business models? How does speiz address the growing need for logistics infrastructure in urban areas? And, how does that contribute to a more sustainable warehousing market? Paulius Kvedaras, CEO and Co-Founder of speiz answers all of these questions in this A2X podcast episode. But there is more: He shares his personal story as a serial entrepreneur and the methodological approach he and his team took when building the speiz platform. And what they are planning for the upcoming years. Tune in, to learn all about their data-driven ..read more

In this episode, Dominik Fürste, Co-Founder & CEO at Rail-Flow, and Nicolas Albrecht, Chief Business Development Officer at cargobeamer, discuss the pros and cons when it comes to platform solutions in logistics. Do they generally have a positive or negative effect on the market as a whole? What are the biggest differences between rail and road freight platforms? What are the biggest challenges when it comes to multi-modal transport and how are they being addressed by the two startups? These are just a few questions that are answered during the interview. And let's not forget the market in ..read more

botsandus is a Robots as a Service startup based in London. They develop autonomous warehousing robots that focus on data extraction and analysis. Listen to Andrei Danescu, their Co-Founder who shares their current solutions, implementation possibilies and their inspiration to start the company ..read more

In this episode, we talked about the exciting topic of autonomous logistics. And more specifically, about the developments in intralogistics. What is the current state of technical development? Where are the differences in the development of hardware from software? And how is it for a startup to grow in such a field ..read more

Political and financial challenges confront logistics professionals on a daily basis. Especially with regards to sustainability, there are still many issues to be dealt with. But we need innovations and changes NOW. What can we do to become greener ..read more

Customer experience is becoming more and more important, also in logistics. What does it mean for logistics companies in the future? How can they make use of this change? We took a closer look at this topic with Cinvio and Deutsche Bank ..read more