Aug 16, 2020
Sarah Barnes-Humphrey and Joe Lynch discuss transforming the shipper, freight forwarder relationship. As the founder of a company designed to connect shippers and freight forwarders, Sarah understands the dynamics of the shipper, freight forwarder relationship.
Sarah Barnes-Humphrey is a logistician turned supply chain marketer, passionate about bringing stories to life in an industry that has traditionally been about stats and numbers. As the host of the popular Let’s Talk Supply Chain Podcast (LTSC) blog and The SC, Supply Chain TV on YouTube, Barnes-Humphrey helps tell the stories and bring awareness to brands and hot topics in the industry, which includes her infamous Women in Supply Chain series. Recently named Top 100 most influential women leaders in Supply Chain (global) and Top 100 most influential Women in Canadian Supply Chain, Barnes-Humphrey has spent the past 20 years in logistics and supply chain and has now co-founded Shipz, a new technology platform encompassing all of her experience and knowledge in the supply chain bringing innovative, collaboration to the shipper and forwarder experience.
Shipz is an online transportation booking platform for international freight movements and a supply chain ecosystem. Shipz helps importers and exporters move their products easily and more efficiently to grow their business outside their borders. Many mid-sized companies do import and export, and want to work with forwarders, but they are limited by the current process. Meanwhile, forwarders are equally strained by the amount of “free” work they do, and by being treated like a bank. Shipz is a neutral bid-and-ship platform for mid-market shippers, providing forwarders with a safe space to stay in the ring.
Let’s Talk Supply Chain is one of the Top supply chain podcasts and blogs on the market, In both, the podcast and the blog, you will learn about best practices, changes in the industry, and “hot topics” surrounding Supply Chain. Listeners have will hear from amazing thought leaders, women in supply chain, and disruptors in the industry.
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