Welcome to The Logistics Collective
The Logistics Collective is a podcast platform for the logistics, supply chain and procurement functions.
It is intended to promote discussion, to share career experiences and advice and also to allow the sharing of best practice and innovation in these functional areas.
It is open to anyone interested in the logistics, supply chain and procurement functions at whatever level or stage of their career.
We welcome those employed in manufacturers, retailers or logistics service providers at any career stage. As this is intended to be an open exchange of ideas we do not exclude consultancies (including competitors of LOGURU) nor do we exclude any ancillary service providers to our named areas of interest.
This channel is managed and financially supported by LOGURU Ltd who are a Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement Consultancy focused on process understanding, supply chain optimisation, network optimisation, implementation of operational and technology solutions and most of all we have the project management methodology to ensure the safe delivery of change. We have formed and are forming long and innovative relationships with our clients across the globe.
We are not theorists, we are experienced industry professionals that absolutely understand what great looks like.
Why listen to our podcasts?
We get a huge amount of positive feedback about how enjoyable they are to listen to and about what people have learned.
If you do listen, do engage positively too. Make comments, share what has chimed with you but also, politely, what did not!
If you want to hear the career journeys of the incredible people we interview, put the kettle on and take 30 minutes or so out of your day to relax.
Latest Industry News
- In mid-market transportation operations, the experienced dispatcher often remains the decision layer that connects systems, exceptions, and operating judgment. Transportation planning is often treated as an optimization problem. Give the system the orders, constraints, assets, drivers, delivery windows, and cost parameters, and the system should produce the plan. In stable operations, that approach can work. […]
- Decision intelligence is becoming a practical operating layer for supply chain organizations that need to connect visibility, analytics, optimization, and execution. From Visibility to Decisions Supply chain organizations have spent years investing in visibility. They can see more shipments, inventory positions, supplier events, demand signals, and operational exceptions than ever before. That has not made […]
- Caterpillar as an Industrial Demand Signal Caterpillar’s latest earnings report is useful because it tells a larger supply chain story. This is not only a story about heavy equipment demand. It is a story about how industrial capacity, energy infrastructure, construction activity, and AI-related investment are beginning to pull on the same supply base. For […]
- Spirit’s shutdown shows how tightly optimized networks can lose resilience when demand, cost, labor, and capacity assumptions change faster than the operating model can adjust. Today, May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines ceases operations and cancels all flights. The shutdown is a useful case study in how tightly optimized operating networks behave when the conditions that […]
- Digital supply chains are not built from dashboards alone. Siemens shows that the real foundation is the connection between engineering, production, automation, and operational data, not just planning software, analytics, or AI. In practice, digitization starts upstream in engineering and runs through production via automation, plant-floor data, product definitions, and process control, then reaches enterprise decisions. Siemens […]