218- Dylan Sluder on Automating Logistics with AI

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dylan Sluder As Director of IT at UCW Logistics, Dylan leverages over 5 years of experience in IT management, disaster recovery, and capacity planning to oversee the company’s technological strategy and digital transformation. With degrees in IT and supply chain management, as well as multiple certifications, Dylan is passionate about implementing infrastructure, systems, and processes that drive optimization, deliver value, and solve problems. He thrives on staying updated on emerging tech trends and skills that can enhance operations, the customer experience, and business growth for UCW Logistics. Dylan Sluder on Automating Logistics with AI How can today’s logistics leaders leverage AI, automation, and other emerging technologies to optimize their supply chain operations? Tune in as host Michael interviews Dylan Sluder, Director of IT at UCW Logistics, to explore this pressing question. Together, they discuss key innovations like transportation management systems, digital freight matching, IoT sensors, and automated trucks that are transforming logistics. Gain valuable insights on how these technologies are revolutionizing delivery tracking, freight sourcing, shipment visibility, and more to streamline supply chains like never before. You’ll also hear Dylan’s perspectives on upholding ethics and accountability through industry partnerships as adoption of these new solutions accelerates. If you’re an IT executive or manager looking to digitally optimize your logistics capabilities, you won’t want to miss this exciting episode!

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0:00.0	Hi, nerds. I'm Michael Moore, hosting this podcast for dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:13.5	I'm here with Dylan Sluder, director of IT at UCW Logistics. Hi, Dylan. How's it going?
0:19.6	Hey, Michael. Good.
0:21.6	Hope you are.
0:22.6	I want to start off real quick.
0:23.6	We always do our icebreaker segment, random access memories.
0:27.6	So we're going to start with that.
0:29.6	This one's really easy.
0:30.6	I'm just going to give you a few questions.
0:32.6	And you just respond to whatever comes to your head first.
0:34.6	It's super fun, just, you know, to get the, get the conversation started. What's the best Frank, you or someone you've ever, someone else
0:45.0	that you've ever seen, kind of be pulled on a coworker or client using IT skills?
0:50.5	Using IT skills. Using IT skills.
0:55.6	So it was actually got from a Renavo data.
1:02.3	He's Joe Delaney.
1:03.4	He's their lead operations man.
1:06.0	I think they're a lead engineer.
1:08.0	He was telling me a story about he used to work for a logistics company
1:12.0	beginning it before getting into cloud hosting.
1:15.8	He told me one of their best pranks they pulled was there's a, they took their firewall
1:25.1	rules and they took, a lot of people were getting on ESPN during the day and to be funny
1:30.8	they wanted the web portals for a software they're using called parade so every time somebody in the
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