A beautiful checkout is easy to admire. Stord has built a business around the harder part: getting the right box to the right door, while keeping independent brands in charge of the relationship.
The delivery company built a business around the doorstep. Now it is giving retailers five ways to get there - and a reason to stop buying speed they do not need.
The company behind other companies’ deliveries has learned an expensive lesson: a warehouse gets better when you remove the right work. Its robots, customer systems and million-dollar investments reveal how.
From parcel labels to a $115 million acquisition, Kewill built software for the awkward business of getting goods from here to there. Its journey through BluJay, e2open and WiseTech reveals what logistics companies were really buying: connections.

For ten years, Taylor Pawelka made parcel software sound like a conversation worth joining. Now, after building a team, an industry voice and a fondness for putting shipping strategies on the roast, she has left ProShip with her next label deliberately unwritten.
The Tennessee logistics company sells software, freight expertise and an unusual promise: expose the cost hiding between a quote and the invoice. Its biggest bet was rescuing Kuebix and rebuilding it for the shippers enterprise software tends to overlook.
ProShip lives in the split second between an order and a shipping label, choosing the carrier, service, promise date and paperwork. That unglamorous decision can save a retailer millions - or turn peak season into a queue.
James Malley is the co-founder and CEO of Paccurate, a New York-based software company whose API decides the cheapest, lowest-waste way to pack every shipment. He grew up around multi-carrier shipping software, trained in theater, and spent years building parcel apps before he and CTO Pat Powers turned a side project fixing carriers' dimensional-weight pricing into a venture-backed cartonization platform used by major retailers and 3PLs.