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All Things Logistics with Brooks Bentz

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, interviews Brooks Bentz, discussing the impact of impact of COVID on supply chain, logistics, and freight operations.


Recording Date/Time
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 3:50PM
Podcast Duraton
00:15:50 hrs/min/sec

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Brooks Bentz, Logistics Management contributing editor and longtime supply chain consultant and practitioner.

During this podcast, Bentz addressed the impact of impact of COVID on supply chain, logistics, and freight operations, how should shippers be approaching supply chain and logistics operations in a post-COVID world, shipper and logistics services provider collaboration, and 2020 Peak Season prospects, among other topics.

Bentz has long been a contributing editor for Logistics Management and in his day job he is a senior consultant for Breakthrough Supply Chain LLC. Bentz has a long and storied career in the freight transportation, logistics and supply chain world, including senior consulting roles at Transplace and Accenture, and various senior leadership roles for railroad, intermodal and trucking companies.


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Jeff Berman
Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management, Modern Materials Handling, and Supply Chain Management Review and is a contributor to Robotics 24/7. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis.
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