What If Supply Chains Are The Next Startup Frontier

From Supply Chain - Unfiltered · 28:09

Show by Institute for Supply Management®

Freight tech is full of big promises, so we start with a blunt question: are startups solving a real need, or selling fear of missing out? From there, we sit down with Patrick Beane, CEO of DataHAUL, and Megan Balch, Managing Director at Idea Village, to get a grounded look at what supply chain innovation looks like when it’s built for operators, not headlines.Patrick breaks down how DataHAUL digitizes freight operations by aggregating disconnected operational data, reconciling it to financials, and turning it into time series data you can actually act on. We talk through why that matters for trucking and logistics teams who need to understand profit at a granular level, including what happened during a specific work block and what the revenue, cost, and gross profit were during that time. It’s a practical conversation about analytics, decision-making, and how tools can move from reporting to real operational leverage.Megan shares what she’s seeing across “critical industries” like trucking, maritime, rail, energy transition, and oil and gas, especially as supply chains keep shifting post-pandemic. We also unpack Idea Village’s Village X accelerator: why the application is intentionally challenging, how coachability shows up in founder behavior, what traction really means, and which KPIs help startups survive the grind.Listen, then share this with a founder or operator who needs a clearer view of traction and unit economics, and subscribe, leave a review, and tell us what part of the logistics stack you think is most overdue for innovation.

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