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Margie Hamlin Of Leaf Logistics On What We Must Do To Create Nationally Secure And Resilient Supply Chains
Ensuring redundancies is a critical step organizations must take to instill resilience.
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How AI is transforming transportation planning and execution
AI is helping the logistics industry solve a massive coordination problem to establish transportation reliability and save shippers, carriers, and brokers a serious amount of time and money.
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How to De-Carbonize Freight Transport via Repeatable and Scalable Actions
While the challenge of decarbonizing heavy-duty freight transport is significant, there are steps shippers can take at any stage of their sustainability journey.
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2023 Top Food Chain Technology List – Announced by FSA’s Food Chain Digest
Leaf is a recipient of the 2023 “Top Food Chain Technology” list from Food Shippers of America. The Top Food Chain Technology program recognizes standout technologies in food transportation, logistics, distribution, and supply chain management.
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Solving the Dysfunctional Freight Contracting and Bid Process
Leaf sees a future where 90% of all freight is planned, scheduled and coordinated ahead of time. Using an AI and ML-based approach, shippers and carriers will have better visibility and predictability into their costs and revenues to keep their businesses stable and reduce the impact of the transportation market’s volatile swings.
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What’s contributing to freight market volatility chaos?
It’s no secret the freight industry is highly cyclical. The transactional, load-by-load way that freight is contracted remains an issue. The odds of shippers being able to look ahead and have capacity and cost certainty is slim to none.
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Leaf Logistics launches Flex Fleets to reduce empty miles, improve driver turnover
Following a pilot program in 2022, freight coordination platform Leaf Logistics has found a way to eliminate 76% of empty miles from unloaded trucks driving on the road by coordinating multi-shipper moves across the transportation grid at scale.
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Leaf Logistics using technology to create dedicated truckload fleets in key US markets
Truckload freight software provider Leaf Logistics has launched a new product that allows shippers and brokers to secure access to dedicated capacity without committing to long-term contracts with specific carriers.
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Solvay And Leaf Logistics Build Certainty In An Uncertain Freight Market
Shippers such as Solvay are turning to new providers such as Leaf Logistics to drive business certainty by focusing on collaboration and advanced data analytics to coordinate supply and demand.
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Find a “Boring” Hundred Billion Dollar Problem You Love w/ Anshu Prasad
"You have to love the problem. And you really have to want to work the problem." Leaf started five and a half years ago and managed over a hundred million in transportation. And they're just getting started.
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Leaf Logistics’ Team of Exceptional, Low-Ego Data Lovers is Hauling the Freight Industry Into the Future
The experienced team of troublemakers behind Leaf Logistics is disrupting the $1T American freight market with cutting-edge data science. With a remote-first, no-ego culture, the team is growing fast and solving new problems every day.
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Check Call: One big roundabout with Anshu Prasad
Mary O'Connell speaks with Anshu Prasad about how Leaf uses technology to build multi-shipper moves while helping carriers build reliable schedules and maximize pay for their drivers.
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This Entrepreneur Raised $60 Million To Create The Air Traffic Control For Ground Transportation
On the Dealmakers Podcast Prasad shared his approach to accelerate your learning and understanding of startups and business building, finding product market fit, and how he’s helping big companies solve big problems.
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Summer Reading for Tech Leaders
Chief information officers and other IT pros share their book recommendations
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Connecting a siloed industry and creating a greener supply chain
Leaf Logistics is increasing shippers’ savings and reliability while decreasing their carbon footprint.
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Supply Chain Helps Meet ESG Goals
As corporations become increasingly focused on ESG initiatives, their supply chain and logistics partners respond with tools and services designed to help them grow sustainability and other goals.
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Leaves do more than fall
Mary O’Connell and Anshu Prasad CEO and co-founder of Leaf Logistics sit down to talk about all things sustainability in a more non-traditional way.
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Trucking Should Brace for ‘Wild Ride’ in Coming Months
Bryan Schulte, chief data janitor for Leaf Logistics Inc., warned of the slowdown further exacerbated by what he called a “broken” system for buying and selling capacity.
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New solutions that help transportation providers compete
Leaf Logistics helps carriers and brokers understand the value of planning ahead
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Driving freight to a zero-waste future
On this episode of Net-Zero Carbon, Andrea Pope from Leaf Logistics and host Tyler Cole discuss removing waste from road freight.
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The 36 most promising sustainability startups in transportation, according to top VCs
Leaf Logistics identifies optimal transportation solutions that maximize asset utilization and minimize carbon impact.
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Talking Supply Chain Podcast: The State of Logistics
On this episode of Talking Supply Chain, Anshu Prasad discusses the state of logistics across all modes, as well as what’s happening in the logistics startup world.
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Supply Chain Disruptions Likely to Continue in Near Future
Economists and industry experts widely believe supply chain disruptions will continue to greatly impact the transportation industry for the first half of the year, and possibly into 2023.
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Leaf Logistics Wants to be the Air Traffic Control for Ground Transportation
A technology company that aims to help shippers and carriers with demand planning and pricing to get empty trucks off the road raised $37 million to further its plans of being the air traffic control of ground transportation.
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Leaf Logistics raises $37M, with plans to double workforce in 2022
Using Leaf Adapt, shippers can get an overarching view of their transportation needs, and by leveraging the data behind more than $23 billion of transportation spend, can build better routing guides, find drivers back hauls and fully utilize the capacity available to them while lowering carbon emissions for carriers and shippers.
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Market Guide for Digital Freight Models for Road Transportation
This Market Guide shares about supply chain technologies in the digital freight industry.
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2022 Supply Chain Outlook with Anshu Prasad
On this podcast, APQC’s Marisa Brown talks with Anshu Prasad, CEO and Co-Founder of Leaf Logistics, about what’s ahead for supply chains including trucking and freight capacity expectations, opportunities for automation, and more.
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60+ Companies Shaping The Future Of Autonomous Trucking & Next-Gen Freight
Leaf is included in this roundup of companies that are building the self-driving technologies and automated freight solutions that will transform the logistics industry for decades to come.
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How to Build a Sustainable Transportation Plan
For shippers, transportation network efficiency means they can both achieve their sustainability goals and lower their cost structure. It’s a formula that is both good for the environment and for their bottom lines.
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SpaceX for ocean?
Leaf Logistics is featured in this episode of the FreightWaves 'What the Truck' podcast.
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New tools help freight brokers find ‘hidden’ capacity
Truck capacity is stretched tight and motor carriers are heading into peak retail season with a full head of steam.
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Leaf Logistics adds another truckload RFP avoidance option
Transportation procurement software vendor Leaf Logistics is arming shippers with a tool to continuously recalibrate their truckload spend to drive more volume to lower cost contract rates. The technology provider last week released a new product called Leaf Adapt that’s designed to wean shippers off a reliance on the traditional long-term contract requests for proposal (RFPs) to truckload carriers.
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Introducing Leaf Adapt
Announcing Leaf Adapt, offering shippers a new way to better plan their transportation needs with continuous transportation portfolio optimization based on changing business needs and market dynamics.
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Gaining Competitive Advantage Beyond the Time of Crisis
Anshu Prasad, the CEO and Co-Founder of Leaf Logistics, on how companies can protect themselves in the times of uncertainty and gain competitive advantage in the New Normal.
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Pandemic Stress on Supply Chain, Other Shocks Mean Shortages of Goods and Materials
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and the coronavirus pandemic that struck in early 2020, experts say, exacerbated weaknesses in the supply chain that will continue to reverberate through the economy for months.
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Four Questions CFOs Should Ask Their Supply Chain Leaders
CFOs must challenge supply chain and transportation leaders to help build stronger, more resilient transportation networks.
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Interest in emissions driving new changes in supply chain technology
Supply chain disruptions over the past year have diverted shippers, logistics service providers (LSPs) and motor carriers from their pre-pandemic environmental initiatives.
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The most important lessons startup founders learned during COVID
Leaf's CEO Anshu Prasad shares lessons learned while growing a startup during COVID.
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Looking Back to Prepare for Future Uncertainty
By embracing new technologies, shippers can build a more flexible approach to transportation planning that can adapt to changing business needs and shifting market conditions.
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Shippers, carriers using new digital tools to secure freight contracts
The spot market has been transformed by digitization. Shippers, third-party logistics (3PL) providers and motor carriers are using the latest technology to stay connected and share real-time visibility of available loads, capacity and pricing.
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High costs straining transportation budgets
Leaf Logistics’ Anshu Prasad sees earnings trouble for food and CPG producers
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How evolving mindsets and innovation are building a better supply chain
This week on In Visible Capital, we talk about the state of the supply chain and how disruptions in the early days of COVID-19 created more space for modernization and innovation industry-wide.
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V-shaped recovery shifts capacity strategies of shippers, carriers, brokers
How events in 2020 have created near and long-term shifts in the capacity strategies for shippers, carriers and 3PLs.
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Leaf Logistics founder says nothing ‘stodgy’ about logistics
Anshu Prasad, the founder of freight tech startup Leaf Logistics, is pushing back against conventional wisdom: Logistics is not “an old school, stodgy industry.”
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Leaf Logistics Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Supply Chain Execution Technologies
Leaf Logistics was recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in the latest Supply Chain Execution Technologies report.
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Dynamic contracts shield shippers from spot-market volatility during hurricane season
FreightWaves spoke with Anshu Prasad, the CEO of Leaf Logistics, to understand how shippers could leverage technology to revamp their transportation planning to react better to volatility.
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Mini-bids intensify US truck shipper data needs
The move by US shippers toward shorter and more focused “mini-bids” with trucking partners is putting more emphasis on the real-time collection of data on carrier performance and changing shipping patterns and rapid data analysis, shippers and analysts tell JOC.com. That’s accelerating investment in technology that can provide analytical power and clarity.
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The quest for rates transparency: How carriers can leverage data to come out ahead
Part two in a series covering how the free market responded to the COVID-19 crisis.
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When the free market and a pandemic collide: Is more oversight needed of trucking rates?
Part one in a series covering how the free market responded to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Supply Chain Startup: Leaf Logistics platform brings predictability to transportation contracts
A look at Leaf Logistics
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As Demand Surges, Supplying and Shipping Take on New Importance
Part of The New York Times Fast Forward series, which examines technological, economic, social and cultural shifts that happen as businesses evolve.
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Market uncertainty lifts US trucking instant quotes by double-digits
Digital truck brokers have found it hard to confidently provide an accurate guaranteed rate to shippers 14 or 21 days in advance because of the unpredictable developments of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), causing one-off quotes to be higher than normal.
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Startup aims to triple forward truck contract spend with $20 million injection
The forward truckload freight contract platform has raised $20 million in capital to fuel growing demand to connect shippers and carriers with a binding agreement that lets them focus on more variable supply and demand issues.
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Venture Market Sees Funding Levels Drop While Valuations Rise
“There was a lot more investor energy chasing us in the fourth quarter than in the first quarter,” said Anshu Prasad, the co-founder and chief executive of transportation logistics startup Leaf Logistics Inc. Mr. Prasad said he started fundraising last summer.
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Supply Chain Startup: There’s a platform for that
Leaf Logistics wants to automate buying freight like wheat buyers buy wheat.
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Strategies to Get Through the Rest of the Year Without Burning Out
Leaf Co-founder & CEO Anshu Prasad shares his philosophy for avoiding employee burnout during the busy season.
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Multi-Shipper Dedicated Fleet Eliminates Empty Miles
The program leverages Leaf Adapt technology to analyze shippers’ data and coordinate multi-shipper moves across the transportation grid.
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Leaf Logistics, which develops AI-powered logistics software, secures $37M
Leaf’s AI-based technology takes shipping industry data and gives companies a forward-looking view of what a disruption — expected or unexpected — will do to their capacity, providing recommendations on how to accommodate those shifts by adjusting trucking routes.
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Leaf Logistics turns load coordination into cash injection
Transportation procurement software vendor Leaf Logistics on Wednesday became the latest logistics technology provider to secure a venture capital investment, seizing on a tenfold year-on-year increase in annual revenue in 2021 to land a $37 million cash infusion.
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A new way to haul and improve performance with flexible dedicated capacity
Leaf Logistics’ freight coordination platform offers a ‘huge competitive advantage’ amid inconsistent freight cycles