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Forward Thinking is Australia’s go-to podcast for the freight forwarding, logistics, and supply chain community.Hosted by Sam Smeaton from LogiHire, each episode features real conversations with the people shaping the Australian freight and logistics industry.
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#15 - Why companies waste millions on spare parts — and how AI is fixing it (opens the original)
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How much money is sitting unused on warehouse shelves? In Episode 15 of Forward Thinking, I sit down with Tim McLain, co-founder of Lexin, to unpack one of the most overlooked areas of supply chain: MRO — maintenance, repair and operating materials. Tim has spent his career working across supply chain, heavy industry and mining, including senior roles at BHP, where he saw firsthand how easily businesses can accumulate huge amounts of unnecessary inventory. We discuss why companies overstock spar
#14 - From Everest to Freight - Johnny Davison, Hitrak Founder & CEO (opens the original)
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In this episode, I sit down with Johnny Davison, founder of Hightrak, a transport management system built by freight people for freight operators. Johnny's path into logistics is anything but typical. He grew up in Auckland, became a certified mountain guide, spent six months in Antarctica, guided Denali and summited Everest in 2010. Endless logistics planning in base camps turned out to be the perfect training for a career in freight. We cover: How a Mainfreight director convinced him to swap m
#13 - Ben Young: The Frank Green Founder Making Plastic Pallet Wrap Extinct (opens the original)
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Ben Young built Frank Green into a household name, selling as many water bottles in Australia as there are Australians. Now he's taking on a problem the entire logistics industry has ignored: single use plastic pallet wrap. In this episode, Ben shares the Frank Green origin story, the hard lessons of scaling a physical product globally, and the Christmas peak that cost the business over a million dollars in customer refunds. Then we get into his latest venture, NoWrap, his reusable replacement f
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