#91: Cross-Border Freight with Matt Silver of Forager
Hosted by Santosh Sankar on June 2, 2021
Summary
Show Notes
On this week’s episode of The Future of Supply Chain, Santosh talks with Matt Silver, CEO, and co-founder of Forager, to discuss how they’ve built a platform and a marketplace for cross-border freight. With more than 10,000,000 North American cross-border shipments a year,
Highlights from their conversation include:
- Forager’s origin (1:03)
- Matt’s path from making music videos to working in logistics (2:10)
- Orchestrating cross-border shipments and synchronizing with all the parties involved (7:18)
- Scout: Forager’s end-to-end user experience as a cloud-based TMS and marketplace (9:19)
- Operating leverage and how technology and marketplace businesses disrupt brokerages (14:04)
- Market fluctuations and pricing adjustments (20:09)
- How more companies are inserting themselves on top of the brokerages (28:06)
- Most surprising lessons learned from starting Forager (34:21)
- Rapid-fire questions: North American manufacturing, Chicago vs. Chattanooga, and freight visibility (36:11)
Founded in 2018 to help streamline the North American supply chain, Forager describes itself as the leader in cross-border logistics, Find out more at https://www.foragerscs.com/about-us.
About The Future of Supply Chain:
During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.