Flock Freight aims to automate 80% of supply transactions within 18 months
Oren Zaslansky · FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post · Nov 8, 2021 · at 13:57
Flock Freight CEO Oren Zaslansky details current supply-side carrier automation levels and internal targets.
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“It's only about 10% of the transactions on that end are really totally automated at this point. We want to take that number up. It's not going to be a hundred percent, but to 80 or 90%, and we want to do that in the next 12 to 18 months.”
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