• TPM24
  • March 3-6, 2024 | Long Beach Convention Center

Angela Czajkowski

Hartman Executive Advisors

Manufacturing, Distribution, Logistics and Retail Industry Lead

Angela is the Manufacturing, Distribution, Logistics and Retail Industry Lead for Hartman Executive Advisors, a technology leadership and advisory firm. Since joining the Hartman team in 2022, her clients have benefitted from her extensive supply chain industry experience and expertise in using technology to solve challenges ranging from operational inefficiencies and labor shortages to cyberthreats. With this knowledge, she works alongside executives to create and execute technology roadmaps and data strategies to drive positive business outcomes.

Prior to Hartman, she spent nearly 16 years at Samuel Shapiro & Co., a Baltimore-based, Customs brokerage, international logistics and supply chain firm. As the Director of Supply Chain at Shapiro, Angela focused on international logistics and supply chain operations, and had leadership responsibility for customer engagement solutions across a deep portfolio of clients. She brings significant experience leading cross-functional teams and has supported publicly traded firms, mid-market companies, along with countless small firms and start-ups.

Angela has served on the Journal of Commerce/IHSMarkit's TPM Women's Committee and is a member of the JOC/IHSMarkit Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Honor Committee. She earned an MS in Supply Chain Management from Towson University and a BS in International Business from Wheeling Jesuit University. 

Sessions With Angela Czajkowski

Monday, 4 March

  • 02:00pm - 02:45pm (PST) / 04/mar/2024 10:00 pm - 04/mar/2024 10:45 pm

    The DOT FLOW Initiative: Understanding the Goals and Impact for Shippers

    At the height of the COVID pandemic, with US ports snarled and shippers seeing freight rates rise and transit times spike, the White House intervened with an idea to give those responsible for running containerized supply chains some measure of supply and demand at ports and other critical nodes. That program, the Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW), has since attracted 55 participants, up from 18 at launch, including the likes of Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Dollar General and other major shippers. The idea behind the program is simple: Participants give data about their purchase order and ocean booking activity in exchange for an aggregated view on supply-demand balance across areas such as port capacity and chassis availability. The goal is to allow participants to make better medium-term planning decisions based on current market dynamics, whether it involves the supply of logistics assets or a forecast of performance across shipment lifecycles. In this session, Andrew Petrisin, a supply chain advisor at the Department of Transportation leading the FLOW initiative, will discuss how the program works, what it’s intended to accomplish and where it goes from here.