Friday March 20th, 2 PM EST
What Hundreds of Warehouse Conversations Reveal About Scale?
Years of conversations with warehouse operators, founders, and executives reveal patterns that repeat as 3PLs scale. Certain beliefs feel right in the moment but consistently lead operations into bottlenecks and stalled growth. The most effective operators think differently, continuously questioning assumptions others overlook.
Understanding these patterns – and asking better questions at each stage – is key to navigating complexity and sustaining execution at scale.
What Hundreds of Warehouse Conversations Reveal About Scale?
After years of conversations with warehouse operators, founders, and executives, certain patterns emerge. This episode surfaces those patterns — the beliefs that feel true but consistently lead operations into trouble, the questions leaders stop asking as they grow, and what the most effective operators think about differently.
What you’ll learn
- The most common patterns in how 3PLs get stuck
- What effective operators think about that others do not
- The questions worth asking at every growth stage
- How the conversation around execution has shifted in recent years
Our Guest Speaker
Kevin Lawton
Kevin Lawton is the founder of The New Warehouse Podcast, one of the most widely followed resources in the warehousing and logistics industry. Over seven years and hundreds of conversations with operators, executives, and technology leaders, Kevin has developed a rare cross-industry perspective on how warehouse operations succeed and fail at scale. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Rider University teaching supply chain management and advises early stage warehouse technology companies. Based in New Jersey.
Host
Vikrant Neb
Vikrant Neb has spent his career inside warehouse and logistics operations diagnosing inefficiencies, building systems, and helping 3PLs scale without losing control of execution.
He is the founder of Leanafy and Kurieta, and the author of Execution Under Pressure: The Hidden Reasons Why 3PLs Stop Growing and How to Fix Them. His work sits at the intersection of operational reality and systems thinking, built from years of hands-on experience with logistics organizations navigating growth and complexity.
Vikrant is based across Indiana and British Columbia. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
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