Welcome to Season 2 of Profile: Central Wisconsin! We kick off this season with an interview with Les Dobbe, Director of Business Development at Lineage Logistics, a cold storage and distribution center.
Les is an entrepreneur and dealmaker, but really, he’s a solutions guy. He figures out what you want, how much you need, where to get it from, when you need it, how to get it to you and where to put it. This is the model of traditional logistics. You have someone who knows someone who knows someone else, and these personal connections make the world turn. However, this is not the future of logistics. Les peels back the curtain of his giant distribution center to reveal how high-tech data analytics and information are now the new driving force for innovation in this industry. Lineage Logistics is more than just a big cold box. They leverage their large network to find the most efficient path from producers to consumers. We had no idea how interesting material handling and distribution could be, so this interview is a little longer than normal. Trust me, it’s worth it.
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