Ever watched someone spend hours building loads in Excel?

If you're nodding your head, you're not alone. For many growing companies, logistics operations are stuck in spreadsheet purgatory – a place where tribal knowledge rules, bottlenecks are a daily occurrence, and scaling feels nearly impossible.

Local Bounti, a fast-growing agricultural innovator specializing in controlled-environment agriculture, found themselves in exactly this position. With ambitious growth plans and multiple facilities across the U.S., their distribution network was held together by spreadsheets, manual processes, and the institutional knowledge of a few key team members.

The result? A logistics operation that couldn't keep pace with their growth.

The Excel Emergency

When Simeon Arseniev joined Local Bounti as Director of Logistics, he inherited a transportation network where:

• Route planning for milk runs and last-mile deliveries consumed up to three hours daily
• Only a handful of veteran team members could perform critical routing tasks
• If someone new needed to jump in (or a spreadsheet broke), operations ground to a halt
• Carrier quotes lived in emails, making rate comparison and optimization nearly impossible

Sound familiar? It's the reality for countless mid-market companies – especially those in traditional industries where technology adoption moves at glacial speed.

From Hours to Minutes

By partnering with Owlery, Local Bounti transformed their logistics operations practically overnight. Route building that once took hours now happens in seconds with "a few button clicks." Their team can manage more carriers with fewer resources, and even complex Walmart routing requirements are handled with ease.

But the most telling part? The staff who were initially skeptical quickly became the biggest fans after seeing how reliably – and easily – Owlery replicated and improved upon their manual processes.

"We're in an old-fashioned industry, but Owlery's TMS helps us bring new technology, automation, and data-driven decision making to our operations so we can keep growing," says Arseniev.

The Full Story

What exactly did Local Bounti implement? How did they manage the transition from spreadsheets to a modern TMS? And what measurable results have they seen?

Read the full case study to discover how Local Bounti is proving that even traditional industries can flourish with the right blend of technology, innovation, and partnership.

Because no one should spend three hours a day in Excel.