The New Warehouse

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Recent Episodes

1. Turning Warehouse Near Misses into Safer Operations with Protex AI

   Nov 2, 2026

   Protex AI co-founders Dan Hobbs (CEO) and Ciárán O'Mara (chief product and technology officer) explain how the company links to existing CCTV cameras on warehouse and factory floors to detect unsafe behavior patterns and operational inefficiencies. The conversation covers the origin of the company after a fatal forklift incident, the difference between reactive and proactive safety tracking, and a customer example with Dot Foods. It also addresses worker privacy and union buy-in, ROI for leadership, and human-robot safety around automation.

2. The New Warehouse Worker: Preparing People for Automation

   Oct 28, 2026

   This solo episode of The New Warehouse Podcast has host Kevin Lawton expanding on a talk he gave at ASCM's CHAINge Conference in Long Beach, California. He argues that frontline warehouse workers are often overlooked in digital transformation and that companies should involve them in change, redefine entry-level roles, and use AI tools and robotics to support them. He also discusses how automation may reduce physically demanding work and improve retention, while noting that some roles will be eliminated.

3. Autonomous Forklifts Deliver More Than Labor Savings

   Oct 26, 2026

   Arshan Poursohi, CEO and co-founder of Third Wave Automation, explains how the company builds autonomous forklifts around a shared-autonomy model in which a remote operator supervises a fleet and intervenes when the machine asks for help. The conversation covers the company's origins in robotics research, its operator-station design, facility mapping for brownfield sites, and its work with 3PL customer Armada Supply Chain Solutions. It also covers the product roadmap (VNA and trailer unloading) and how operators can evaluate automation readiness.

4. Lower Shipping Costs for 3PLs: Insights from Tusk Logistics

   Oct 21, 2026

   Ben Emmrich, co-founder and CEO of Tusk Logistics, returns to The New Warehouse Podcast with host Kevin Lawton to discuss Tusk's alternative carrier benchmark report and what shippers should consider when planning their carrier mix for 2027. The conversation covers how alternative parcel carriers are grouped into lightweight specialists, emerging carriers, and regional carriers, and how legacy carriers like FedEx and UPS are shifting toward margin over volume. They also discuss how shippers can test and monitor carriers, operational needs such as sortation and tracking, and zone skipping as a source of 3PL margin.

5. Packaging Automation That Fits Existing Warehouse Operations

   Oct 19, 2026

   Francesco Cecci, cluster sales manager for e-commerce at Coesia, joins Kevin Lawton to describe Coesia's packaging and palletizing automation for e-commerce fulfillment. The conversation covers right-size bagging and boxing, the Selecta automated pack table designed to replace a manual pack station one-for-one, and the mixed-palletizing and RoboConfig software. They also discuss pack-station bottlenecks, labor turnover, dimensional-weight shipping costs, brownfield installation, and where packaging automation may go next.

6. Peak Season Planning with Flexible Warehouse Automation

   Oct 14, 2026

   Ron Egan, senior vice president of sales at FORTNA, discusses how peak season has shifted from one predictable annual spike to multiple smaller peaks, and what that means for warehouse planning. The conversation covers forecast challenges, stress-testing and health checks before peak, the case for flexible automation, and how AI-driven warehouse execution software can direct volume within a building. Host Kevin Lawton and Egan also touch on post-peak assessment and the lead times needed to plan automation for the following peak.

7. Middle Mile Shipping Unlocks Faster Parcel Deliveries

   Oct 12, 2026

   Chris Guggenheim, founder and CEO of ClearJet, explains how the company moves parcels on commercial passenger flights, with airport facilities that sort packages, clear them for flight, and hand them to final-mile carriers. He describes how his experience running an e-commerce company with a 10-million-package customer led him to the idea, and how the model addresses underused trucks, carrier capacity limits, and slow returns. The conversation also covers ClearJet's pricing relative to express and ground options, its national carrier partnerships, and its planned international and digital expansion.

8. 3PL Profitability Through Smarter Cost Savings

   Oct 7, 2026

   Yan Sim, founder of Operating Crew, discusses how 3PLs and brands can win business together without getting trapped in a race-to-the-bottom pricing dynamic. Drawing on his experience scaling supply chain operations at companies like Warby Parker and leading fulfillment at hyper-growth brands, Sim explains how strategic carrier selection, packaging optimization, and genuine partnerships create margin gains for both parties. The conversation covers why 3PLs shouldn't compete solely on price, how alternative carriers are reshaping cost structures, and how packaging audits can unlock 10%+ savings in fulfillment spend.

9. Freight Performance: Shipper Scores Reveal What Freight Costs

   Oct 5, 2026

   Lance Healy, CEO and co-founder of Freight Facts, discusses how shipper scores—a data-driven rating system for LTL shippers—can reshape carrier relationships and improve rate negotiations. The company aggregates 24+ data points from carrier operations (dwell time, days to pay, damage claims, billing exceptions) into a score similar to a FICO credit score, giving shippers visibility into their operational performance and actionable insights for improvement. The conversation explores how shipper scores benefit shippers, carriers, 3PLs, insurance companies, and the broader LTL market by creating transparent, standardized accountability.

10. Aviro360: Yard Visibility Turns Blind Spots into Capacity

    Sep 30, 2026

    Ilhan Kolko, President and Managing Director at Aviro360, discusses how the company solves 'yard blindness'—the gap between what yard management systems believe is happening and what's actually occurring in the yard. Built from logistics operator ConGlobal's operational heritage, Aviro360 combines computer vision, AI, and lightweight hardware to provide real-time yard visibility and gate automation, processing ~250,000 events daily across 80+ deployed sites.