Charles Fallon

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Online Groceries and the Day We Had a Yogurt Eating Contest

March 05, 2015 BY Charles Fallon

At LIDD’s offices, we like to keep our fridge and pantry stocked with food to stave off mid-afternoon hunger or to make a convenient and healthy...

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E-Commerce: Back to the Future

January 23, 2015 BY Charles Fallon

Because e-commerce is a relatively new retail horizon, often business leaders and entrepreneurs think that every aspect of an e-commerce company has...

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5 Things Every Supply Chain Professional Should Know About Infrastructure

January 05, 2015 BY Charles Fallon

Here are 5 things every supply chain professional should know about infrastructure in 2015:

  1. Supply Chain Infrastructure are the buildings, equipment...
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Amazon’s Robots and the Genius of a 44 Year Payback

November 27, 2014 BY Charles Fallon

Amazon’s robots are getting flattering press.  And for good reason: they’re the cutest darned things.

Well, that’s not fair. According to Amazon,...

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Big Data Hubris

November 12, 2014 BY Charles Fallon

I was in a meeting recently with the transportation team of a multi-billion dollar grocery chain and it got me thinking back to my days in...

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Rubber meet Road, WMS meet Warehouse Layout

October 09, 2014 BY Charles Fallon

The project team sat in the conference room where the CEO sat with his back to the whiteboard. Ostensibly, we were there to kick off a WMS...

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Everything is an Incentive

September 16, 2014 BY Charles Fallon

The guys from Freakonomics did a podcast on the Cobra Effect which explains the myriad ways in which folks engineer incentives to create one outcome...

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A Parking Garage is a Lot Like a Warehouse

July 21, 2014 BY Charles Fallon

A small event on a recent afternoon in Boston got me thinking about storage capacity in the warehouse.

After a late lunch in the North end, I was...

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Amazon Hires 10,000 Robots

Geekwire reports (link to article) that Amazon plans to add 10,000 KIVA robots to its distribution centers by the end of the year.

If you don’t know...

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Infrastructure: Supply Chain’s Missing Link

March 11, 2014 BY Charles Fallon

At LIDD, we’ve decided to make some effort to put “supply chain infrastructure” on the map.

If you google the term “supply chain”, you’ll find dozens...

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