Charles Fallon

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How SKU Rationalization Lowers Warehouse Costs

February 28, 2017 BY Charles Fallon

Your business has been doing well! Not only have your products been in higher demand, your clients have also been asking for a larger variety of...

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Why should I care how my 3PL distribution is run?

December 12, 2016 BY Charles Fallon

The Director of Logistics at one of our new clients asked me this question recently.

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A warehouse is like a gold mine [Inbound Labor]

July 05, 2016 BY Charles Fallon

Recently, an analyst prepared a slide that had me thinking back to my days as a student,

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Grocers as Food Curators – The secret weapon in online success

January 29, 2016 BY Charles Fallon

Whenever the subject of online groceries comes up, whether in supply chain publications, the mainstream media or just casual conversations among...

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Honey, The WMS Shrunk Our Cooler!

September 23, 2015 BY Charles Fallon

A recent site visit, to a 1 million+ square foot grocery distribution center in the Northeast, provided yet another example of how important it is to...

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User Experience or Cutting Corners

August 07, 2015 BY Charles Fallon

Every six weeks or so, it seems this photo (or variants of it) takes over LinkedIn feeds and other places on the internet. The comment threads it...

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Pretty soon, every warehouse in the world will be a 3PL

July 01, 2015 BY Charles Fallon

Logistics has been dramatically transformed in the information age. The ability to collect and transmit data; to build logic using that data to...

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Lessons learned from LIDD's UniPro WMS Assessment Survey

June 05, 2015 BY Charles Fallon

At the end of August, I’ll be out in Sacramento for the UniPro Scope event where I will present the results of a WMS assessment survey that we are...

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ROI - Return on Illusion

A recent meeting with a prospective client made me wonder about the wisdom of venture capitalists when it comes to deciding where to park their money.

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Target's Canadian Collapse - A Supplier's Perspective

March 31, 2015 BY Charles Fallon

It’s hard to imagine that when 2015 comes to a close, people won’t point to Target’s Canadian collapse as one of the year’s biggest business stories....

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