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Venture Logistics and the expensive art of moving empty space
A truck can arrive on time and still waste money. Venture Logistics sells manufacturers a more demanding proposition: fix the network that sent it.
He Wanted Inventory to Work Like Online Banking. Now It Runs 12 Million Square Feet.
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.
The Chilean Freight Company That Hands Its Drivers the Keys to the Truck
RockTruck moved 1.7 million last-mile deliveries with a fleet it mostly does not own - then sold 70% of the company to a gas giant. Here is how the collaborative model actually works.
MasonHub
MasonHub is a Los Angeles-based third-party logistics (3PL) and order-fulfillment company built for fast-growing beauty, fashion, and wellness brands. Founded in 2018 by retail-operations veteran Donny Salazar, it pairs its own order-management and warehouse-management software with hands-on fulfillment services out of bicoastal distribution centers, aiming to give digital-first brands the shipping speed, accuracy, and real-time supply-chain visibility usually reserved for retail giants.