Through a series of professional twists and turns, Eric Rempel went from studying computer engineering in math in college to industrial engineering, consumer packaging, and – finally – freight brokerage. Fortunately for him, it was a highly entrepreneurial environment, one that gave him plenty of opportunities to learn and innovate.
Eric Rempel, Chief Innovation Officer at Redwood Logistics
Through a series of professional twists and turns, Eric Rempel went from studying computer engineering in math in college to industrial engineering, consumer packaging, and – finally – freight brokerage. Fortunately for him, it was a highly entrepreneurial environment, one that gave him plenty of opportunities to learn and innovate.
Continuing in that spirit, today he is focused using on Redwood Logistics’ serverless platform to solve problems without writing code. The platform can handle data integrations, trading, partner integration, sending data to data warehouses, anything that requires natively moving pieces of information from one system to another.
In this conversation, Eric tells Supply Chain Now Co-hosts Greg White and Scott Luton:
· Why it is a good thing when a customer approaches his team with an “absurd” request or goal, especially when you have a great team to throw at the problem
· How communication continues to be a challenge, whether that means human communication or communication between systems
· That doing something for a long time doesn’t automatically make you an innovator or an authority on that subject