Pros to Know: To Enable Progress, You Have to be Interoperable

Bill Catania, founder and CEO of OneRail, says that to enable progress, you have to be interoperable. Here's why.

May 23, 2022

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Bill Catania, founder and CEO of OneRail and a Pros to Know winner, details how to eliminate siloes, and wishes for the supply chain and logistics community to evolve faster so all companies can take advantage of interoperability mindset.

"Doing so really puts the shipper and the customer first. To enable progress, you have to be interoperable," he says.

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