SupplyChainBrain Webinar; moderated by Bill Catania, founder and CEO of OneRail; Jeff Toewe, Chief Product Officer; David Rye, board member and operational advisor; and Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor of SupplyChainBrain. Five years after the peak of supply chain disruption, retailers and wholesalers face a new challenge: tech bloat. In their rush to adapt, companies embraced a patchwork of point solutions — many of which now sit idle, redundant, or worse, draining resources and slowing operations. In this candid, open webinar, speakers address the hidden costs of fragmented technology stacks and the unintended consequences of overdependence on siloed tools. Learn how leading brands are moving away from unnecessary platforms and adopting unified strategies that drive efficiency, flexibility, and performance across the supply chain. Join a conversation with no rules on how to escape technology overload and take back control.
From a supply chain perspective, OneRail, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a last-mile delivery orchestration software provider founded by Bill Catania — delivering a final-mile delivery platform for retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. OmniPoint, OneRail's core product platform, encompasses real-time visibility, route optimization, carrier management, returns management, and customer communication modules. Tech bloat is one of the most discussed post-pandemic SaaS economy topics — according to Gartner, enterprise SaaS spending exceeded $280 billion in 2024 — yet companies waste 30-40% of their SaaS spending on "shadow IT" or unused licenses. Productiv, Zylo, Torii, Vendr, Tropic, Cledara, and Spendflo are leading SaaS management platform (SMP) providers used by companies to optimize their SaaS portfolios.
From a supply chain perspective, the last-mile delivery sector has experienced dramatic growth over the past five years driven by the e-commerce explosion — representing a market exceeding $200 billion annually in the U.S. Leading last-mile and final-mile platforms include OneRail, Bringg, FarEye, Onfleet, DispatchTrack, Routific, Locus.sh, RouteSmart, Descartes Route Planner, Trimble TMS, Manhattan Active Last Mile, Blue Yonder Luminate Logistics, Körber Last Mile, Project44, and FourKites. Crowdsourced delivery platforms include DoorDash Drive, Uber Direct, Roadie (UPS), Postmates (Uber), and GrubHub. Major retailers operate their own last-mile networks: Amazon DSP (Delivery Service Partner), Amazon Flex, Walmart Spark, and Target Shipt. National carriers include UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS, OnTrac, LSO, and LaserShip.
From a supply chain perspective, the tech rationalization process encompasses: (1) application portfolio management (APM), inventory of existing software; (2) usage analytics, actual usage metrics; (3) cost optimization, cancellation of unused licenses; (4) integration audit, inventory of iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service), API, EDI, and webhook infrastructure; (5) vendor consolidation, transitioning from best-of-breed multi-vendor to unified single-vendor strategy; (6) build vs. buy decisions; (7) contract renegotiation; (8) change management; and (9) data architecture consolidation including data lake, data fabric, and master data management (MDM) initiatives. Leading iPaaS platforms include MuleSoft (Salesforce), Boomi, Workato, Informatica, SnapLogic, Tray.io, Celigo, Microsoft Power Automate, Zapier, and n8n. Ultimately, the webinar organized by OneRail's Bill Catania, Jeff Toewe, and David Rye provides a roadmap for retail and wholesale supply chain leaders to rationalize their post-pandemic technology investments — a critical discussion ahead of the 2026 budget planning cycle.
Key Takeaways:
1. OneRail, led by Bill Catania, is a last-mile orchestration platform provider.
2. Post-pandemic tech bloat represents a major challenge for retailers.
3. Companies waste 30-40% of enterprise SaaS spending on shadow IT or redundant licenses.
4. The trend is shifting from best-of-breed multi-vendor to unified single-vendor strategies.
5. iPaaS, API, EDI, and master data management are core integration infrastructures.
