
A western Kansas farm kid saw companies tracking inventory by fax and phone, imagined something closer to online banking, and built Smart Warehousing around one durable idea: the boxes and the data have to move together.
Carl Wasinger started Smart Warehousing with one computer under his desk in 2001. Two decades on, its proprietary software SWIMS quietly moves other companies' products through 30-plus warehouses - and nearly 5,000 customers depend on it.