– Abbi Failla to join fellow overall winners on panel at Women in Supply Chain Forum in Charleston – DUBLIN, Ohio, Aug. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EASE Logistics (EASE), a full-service third-party and fourth-party logistics provider, announced today that Abbi Failla, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO, has been named the overall winner of the 2026 Women in Supply Chain Forum Award in the Workforce Innovator category. Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive present the award each year to recognize outstanding women in the industry. Failla joined EASE in 2021 and founded the company's first Strategy and Innovation Department. She has since led the innovation charge through EASE's autonomous vehicle initiatives, including the company's partnerships with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), DriveOhio and Einride, building on EASE's earlier automated driving system (ADS) and I-70 corridor projects with technology partners Kratos Defense and Bosch. Failla has also been an internal champion for AI adoption as AMMI, the company's AI-driven orchestration layer, has become a cornerstone of how EASE runs. Outside EASE, she is a founding board member of the Ohio Supply Chain Academic Network (O-SCAN) and chairs its Workforce and Education Committee, which creates pathways for students to pursue supply chain careers as Ohio faces a projected shortfall of more than 210,000 supply chain jobs by 2030. “Whether it's our autonomous vehicle projects or AI tools like AMMI, none of it works if our people aren't grounded in how EASE actually operates, our systems, and our core processes,” said Failla. “That's true whether someone is brand new to logistics or has been doing it for twenty years. This award says more about the people who show up every day willing to learn something new than it does about me.” Failla also built and