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Stay sharp in a fast-moving industry with our curated list of must-listen supply chain podcasts.
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Moddule Team
For logistics professionals, staying informed is an essential part of the job. The best insights often come from conversations between industry veterans (people who have actually solved the problems you are facing).
That is where supply chain podcasts come in. Whether you are managing a freight forwarding operation, running a 3PL, or handling complex inbound supply chains as a shipper, the stakes of falling behind are real: missed exceptions, unreliable ETAs, and disruptions you learn about too late to act on. Podcasts offer a way to stay ahead while you do other things. You can absorb market intelligence during your commute, catch up on regulatory changes during lunch, or hear directly from industry founders about what is working right now.
In this article, we’re sharing our picks that come crowdsourced from our team and suggested by actual listeners. These are not just background noise. They are produced by people who take the industry seriously, and they cover the topics that logistics professionals actually need to know.
When you need to understand what's happening in the market right now, these podcasts stand out for their thoughtful coverage.
FreightWaves' flagship podcast, hosted by Malcolm Harris. If you're looking for an irreverent take on the biggest freight and logistics stories, this is where you'll find it. What the Truck?! covers everything from fuel prices to regulatory shifts to the latest logistics tech. It's particularly useful if you want to understand how market movements might affect pricing, capacity, or customer expectations in the coming weeks.
A different lens from the FreightWaves network, Fuller Speed Ahead is hosted by FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller's. With interviews and deeper discussion than quick-hit news coverage, you can pick and choose what's relevant to your particular focus, whether that's understanding tariff impacts or following specific market segments.
If you want a smart recap of what just happened in freight, The Loadstar’s News in Brief is a weekly, industry-focused show hosted by Charlotte Goldstone. It packs the biggest ocean freight, air cargo, and supply chain developments into 30 minutes or less. You get the headlines, but you also get the “so what” for shippers, forwarders, and logistics teams.
Hearing directly from people building the next generation of supply chain solutions offers a different kind of value. You get to understand their thinking, their approach to solving problems, and often their honest assessment of what's actually broken in the industry.
Hosted by industry veteran Joe Lynch, The Logistics of Logistics is one of the most consistently useful podcasts in the space for anyone who wants to understand how logistics businesses are actually built and scaled. The guest mix is great, the conversations are pragmatic, and the show has a knack for pulling out lessons you can take straight back to your own operation.
Don’t miss this episode: Will Urban, Moddule board member and former CRO at Flexport, has a standout conversation on scaling freight tech companies. He covers go-to-market strategy, building a durable revenue engine, and what it takes to grow in a cyclical industry. Give it a listen.
Hosted by Scott Luton, founder and CEO of Supply Chain Now, the show operates at a similar level, with a broader scope. Luton brings together thought leaders to discuss the people, technologies, and best practices impacting global supply chain performance. The show pushes listeners to think about both challenges and opportunities, which makes Supply Chain Now useful whether you're focused on improving internal operations or broader industry trends.
Supply chain is rarely a single-function problem. It touches operations, technology, procurement, finance, and strategy. Podcasts that bridge these domains help you see how decisions in one area ripple across your organization.
Hosted by Sarah Barnes-Humphrey, Let's Talk Supply Chain is one of the few podcasts in the industry that dives into a problem that most shows avoid: supply chain lacks diversity, and that has real consequences for how the industry operates and evolves. The conversations go beyond efficiency and optimization by covering how to build better cultures, attract a broader talent pool, and create supply chains that reflect the world they serve.
From Miebach Consulting, one of the world's leading supply chain consultancies, Speaking of Supply Chain covers topics from AI and digital transformation to risk resilience, MRO strategy, sustainability, and urban logistics. Host Ellen Wood brings in professionals who have actually worked through these challenges, which leads to grounded conversations that are highly relevant to operators building more resilient supply chains today.
From the Association for Supply Chain Management, this podcast features "untold stories from the people who run our supply chains." The focus is on practitioners doing the work, not just executives making announcements. You’ll hear from people who are managing complex networks, solving real problems, and learning as they go.
If you're deep in the trenches managing specific functions, there are podcasts that zero in on your world.
A blueprint for working in the profession, by the people who know it best. Host Melanie Stern digs into the specific challenges of procurement, planning, risk management, and sustainability with guests who live and breathe it. The conversations are real and transparent, which makes Supply Chain Unfiltered a useful listen when you want practical depth on the functions you actually manage.
SupplyChainBrain takes an academic perspective, featuring conversations with industry practitioners, consultants, academics, and other experts from a trusted industry news source. If you're thinking through complex problems like international trade, resilience, and advanced analytics, these forward-thinking interviews often dig deeper into the problems behind solutions.
The supply chain industry has always moved fast. The professionals who stay ahead are not the ones who know everything, but the ones who stay curious, listen to what is happening in the market, and adapt accordingly. Podcasts are one of the best ways to stay in that group.
Having a single, reliable view of your operations is another. Moddule brings your shipment data, carrier feeds, and systems together in one place, so the insights you pick up on your morning commute have somewhere to land and you have something to act on.
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