Interview with an entrepreneur-Dan Sanker of CaseStack
What do you do for a living?
I’m the president of a logistics outsourcing company.
How would you describe what you do?
The company does transportation, warehousing, and all related technology to help people manage the flow of their products from the manufacturers out to retailers. I run the company, which consists of about three hundred and twenty people distributed around the country. Our main office is in California, and now our new office is coming to Fayetteville.
What does your work entail?
There’s not been a normal week in a pretty long time. But, I guess, for the most part I spend time talking to clients on solutions to some of the issues they’ve got.
A lot of people want to do some sort of entrepreneurial thing. Most people keep thinking about it and thinking about it, but they never actually do anything. If you’re wanting to do something, just do it already and don’t agonize over it for the rest of your life.
I spend time trying to work with our training partners, which are retailers, warehousing companies—other warehousing companies—trucking companies, recruiting people, managing people, managing issues that come up with people, selling, figuring out our marketing plans, so it’s lots of different pieces.
How did you get started?
I was at Proctor and Gamble, Nabisco, some larger consumer package goods company, and then some large services companies, and saw a piece of the market that was not really being addressed, and that had a high level of dissatisfaction with supply chain management software and supply chain management services and how they interact. So, I decided I could fix that using the Internet and as a tool that would enable people to better manage their businesses. Continue Reading …
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