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A media platform for the people running global operations manually.
Latest Articles
Fresh from the interview room
Episode 013 — Coming Soon
"A conversation with Max Brunner about AI, operational reality and why transformation has to reach the people doing the work"
Episode 011 — Coming Soon
"Michael Tung on 30 years of logistics, why systems still struggle with reality, and why real value comes from changing the process—not cutting another dollar"
Episode 010 — Coming Soon
"The spreadsheet looked correct. Reality disagreed."
Every week, operators manually solve problems that systems were supposed to handle years ago.
What is Still On Email?
Real conversations with the people behind global operations.
Still On Email brings together professionals from procurement, supply chain, logistics, operations and digital transformation to discuss how work really gets done.
Every day, teams around the world coordinate suppliers, shipments, inventory, forecasts and customer commitments.
Despite decades of digital innovation, many critical processes still rely on emails, spreadsheets, phone calls and manual coordination.
We explore the reality behind the systems.
Not the marketing. Not the buzzwords.
The actual work.
Procurement
How companies source, negotiate and manage supplier relationships.
Supply Chain
How products move from suppliers to customers.
Logistics
Visibility, execution, transportation and operational excellence.
Operations
The people and processes keeping businesses running every day.
“In 25 years, supply chain experts will be known for their judgments and solutions, not their spreadsheets or systems.”
Still On Email is an independent community for operators, practitioners and industry leaders who want to share experiences, learn from each other and improve the way work gets done.
Operations Unfiltered
Real conversations with the people behind the systems.
Your KPIs Can Be Green While Your Operation Is Already Failing
"Denz Lacanlale on trust, leadership, scaling operations and why technology should make work easier — not become another obstacle."
AI Won’t Fix Your Operations. It Will Expose Them
"If you can’t teach a process to a colleague, you won’t teach it to AI."
Why digitalization often fails – even though the technology has long been ready
"While everyone is talking about AI, Christophe Mostert talked about something completely different."
The Most Valuable Asset in Logistics Isn’t Technology. It’s Trust.
"The logistics industry doesn’t run on containers. It runs on relationships."
The real problem begins long before the goods are shipped.
"Most problems in global supply chains do not arise at sea. They arise long before the goods are even shipped."
Technology Doesn’t Change Companies. People Do.
"Technology should never become the objective. It should help people do their best work."
About Still On Email
Jens Ehne
Founder
Still On Email started with a simple observation: behind every "digital transformation" slide deck, somewhere a person is still chasing a shipment status over email.
After years close to global operations, Jens kept meeting the same people — the ones who actually keep things moving when the systems don't. They rarely get a stage. Their work is invisible until something breaks.
So he founded Still On Email to change that. Not another vendor blog. Not another conference. A place where operators tell their own stories, in their own words, about how the work really gets done.
“The most important work in operations is the work no one built a system for.”