Who builds Cratepost, why the shelf reads the way it does, and the working files that come out of it.
Before Cratepost was a shelf, it was a stack of files we kept losing to bad inboxes. Floor scorecards, freight audit templates, a 401(k) match cheat sheet, the same Excel again and again — built by people who had worked the planning desk, walked the warehouse floor, and closed a few month-ends as analysts. No consultants, no marketing decks.
The person behind the shelf ran the planner track on the inbound side, the warehouse side on a few rough cut-overs, and the analyst seat at the table where the WMS-TMS-ERP story tends to get made. Files here come out of that working life — the kind the floor on Monday morning actually opens, not the kind the consulting deck keeps slipping a few disclaimers around.
Cratepostsits on the working-shelf side. Every file is editable and unlocked. Every file lands the same day you want it. No upsell, no manifesto before the download, no “book a call” between you and the file you came for.
The next aim is the same as it always has been: more files that survive the floor, written by operators who have been on it. The blog reads and the shop files come out of the same people. The shelf grows at the pace the floor grows.
Every file ships editable and unlocked — open it the same day, drop in your numbers, ship it to your floor. No upsell, no manifesto before the download. The shelf stays on the operator’s side of the line and the consulting-firm markups stay on the other.
Three voices from the supply chain floor — planners, analysts, and ops leads who have run the files against their own numbers.
Open the shop for the full set of editable trackers, or try a free file first and see what the format reads like before you buy.