Freightvine

Transforming eCommerce Fulfillment and Shipping | Brent Beabout

Episode Summary

Brent Beabout, President of Quiet Platform, is the guest in this episode of the Freightvine. Brent started his career as a Submarine officer in the US navy but has spent the last 20+ years running the supply chains of some of the largest retailers in the world, to include Amazon, Office Depot, Nordstrom, and Walmart - where he developed and led their ecommerce supply chain. In 2020, he founded a company called AirTerra based on the idea of combining parcel shipments from multiple retailers to leverage scale and volume. It, along with the robot-based 3rd party fulfillment company Quiet Logistics, was acquired in 2021 by American Eagle and the combined firm is called Quiet Platform. The new platform is providing a scalable eCommerce backend fulfillment and transportation solution for retailers and brands of all sizes to be able to successfully compete in the market. To wrap things up, Dr. Inam Iyoob joins Dr. Chris Caplice for the latest North American truckload market rate trends and forecast powered by DAT iQ.

Episode Notes

Brent Beabout, President of Quiet Platform, is the guest in this episode of the Freightvine.     

Brent started his career as a Submarine officer in the US navy but has spent the last 20+ years running the supply chains of some of the largest retailers in the world, to include Amazon, Office Depot, Nordstrom, and Walmart - where he developed and led their ecommerce supply chain.  In 2020, he founded a company called AirTerra based on the idea of combining parcel shipments from multiple retailers to leverage scale and volume.  It, along with the robot-based 3rd party fulfillment company Quiet Logistics, was acquired in 2021 by American Eagle and the combined firm is called Quiet Platform.    The new platform is providing a scalable eCommerce backend fulfillment and transportation solution for retailers and brands of all sizes to be able to successfully compete in the market.  

To wrap things up, Dr. Inam Iyoob joins Dr. Chris Caplice for the latest North American truckload market rate trends and forecast powered by 

DAT iQ