Flexe edited the transcript for brevity and clarity.
Mike Griffin, Vice President of Business Development and Principal, Johnson Logistics
People are struggling with their supply chain because they just don’t know what it’s going to be. The challenge that people are experiencing today is the fact that they have to be very fast and flexible. First off, you’ve got the higher cost of leases. Labor has become incredibly tight.
Carmen Vazquez, Director of Sourcing, Flexe
It’s important to have a flexible supply chain today because markets are volatile, space is constrained and logistics is part of every organization’s competitive strategy.
Mike Griffin, Vice President of Business Development and Principal, Johnson Logistics
To remain competitive in the industry today, they’re having to be more strategic in where they’re locating their distribution facilities, so they can get the product to the consumer.
The value that Flexe offers to shippers really is pretty critical. They have one platform. They have visibility of their product across the country. So not only is it product in one site, it could be in five or six different sites, and they can go to one system to be able to see all their inventory across the country.
Mitchell Putman, General Manager, Johnson Logistics
The Flexe technology has been very easy to use. It’s very user-friendly, to where it’s easy to train people on and to understand it and pick it up very quickly.
It provides transparency to both sides and is very detailed in what we need to do objectives for the day.
Carmen Vazquez, Director of Sourcing, Flexe
Flexe works to understand the specific needs of our customers and match them with the capabilities of best-fit warehouse operators.
Having agile partners, like Johnson Logistics, is especially critical. Johnson Logistics is an expert fulfillment and distribution provider with access to labor and strategic locations capable of handling the needs of the largest enterprise organizations.
Mike Griffin, Vice President of Business Development and Principal, Johnson Logistics
Johnson Logistics started in the moving industry in 1900, and then it moved to logistics. What’s cool about that is we’re able to have large labor pools that we use across all of our sites.
With Flexe, we have 13 different buildings that we run product through. Every customer’s different. On the retail side, where we may have ocean containers come in, we’ll unload them, palletize them and then prep them for whenever they’re going to go out. And if they do go out on the eCommerce side, we’re able to pull the product by cartons, slap labels on them and then throw them out on a truck to go out the same day.
The great thing in working with Flexe is they’re able to provide solutions fast, flexible and really trying to meet the demands of the customer.
