Tim is currently the President & CEO of Agillitics, a technology solutions and consulting services firm based in Atlanta, GA.  Agillitics empowers companies to make data driven decisions to improve operational performance, enable innovation, and drive competitive advantage.

Certified: ►Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) ►PMP ►Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Tim is experienced consulting and sales director with proven ability to manage large cross-functional teams, identify, design, implement innovative business solutions, and build sustained client relationships. Tim has a diversified background in retail, consumer products, e-commerce, automotive, industrial goods and services, logistics, and government. Tim also has a demonstrated ability to deliver results that have a measurable, positive impact on a clients’ bottom line while bridging the gaps between strategic vision, technological innovation, and operational execution.

Tim has designed innovative supply chains from the ground up and directed implementations across multiple verticals and  service offerings including Warehousing, Labor Management, Transportation, Order Fulfillment and Business Intelligence for a large list of clients/partners including:  FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), DELL, AVON, Mary Kay, The Home Depot, Newell Rubbermaid, Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC), Donaldson Corporation, Siemens, Genuine Parts Company, Pendleton Woolen Mills, Orvis, Carter’s, Sigma Aldrich, etc.

Tim has an MBA and BS in Industrial & System Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Specialties: Supply Chain Management Strategy, Planning, and Execution (Warehousing, Transportation, Labor, Order Fulfillment, Material handling equipment, Business Intelligence, etc.), Project and Program Management, Performance and Process Optimization, Operations/Process Design, Risk Management and Mitigation, Strategic Management Consulting, and Change Management.

Tim Judge

🎥 Another Amazing Manhattan Associates Partner Day in the Books

Super pumped now for an amazing 2026.  I love kickstarting the year with the 1-2 punch of NRF followed by MA Partner Day!

You can definitely feel the buzz in the air this year with some fresh leadership, plenty of old faces, brand new exciting tech revealed, and lots of cool things on the horizon.

Thanks as always to Eric Lamphier, Robert Flather, Martin Lockwood, Hannah Draper, Abby Cannon for putting on a great day!

Eric Clark, Greg Betz, Bob Howell - Super excited on direction you are headed.  The focus on partnerships definitely came across loud and clear 🙏 

Brian Kinsella, Sanjeev Siotia - Very excited where the products are heading, especially around Agent Foundry.  Our customers are already buzzing about it and the use cases are almost unlimited.

Also loved the great sessions across Marketing, Sales, Product, and Services.   Thanks you  Liz Sophia, Chris Shaw, Jon Liberman, Robby Dewling, Thomas Lichtwerch, Ellie Crawford, Amy Tennent, Brett Lindner, Ryan Gifford, Adam Kline, Peter Schnorbach, Bryant Smith, Warren Rojas, Heather Mahan for the awesome updates and allowing us some snacks and coffee in between.

Thank you Manhattan Associates as always for an amazing day, an incredible lifelong partnership, and creating a one-of-a-kind ecosystem of the best supply chain people around 🙌 

Hope to see you all again at Momentum in Vegas in May!

#supplychainmanagement #supplychain #manhattanpartnerday26 #pushpossible

Rescuing Supply Chain Leaders Drowning in Data but Starving for Insights | CEO at Agillitics | Supply Chain Analytics

📊 Retail supports 55 million U.S. jobs and $5.3T in GDP

📅 Data Point of the Day #188 – Wednesday

🧠 Takeaway: Retail operations are economic infrastructure.
Operational decisions ripple far beyond the DC.

👶 Baby Chains: “Operations matter more than people realize.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “No pressure…”

📌 Source: NRF Retail Impact Report

❓ Question: How do you measure operational decisions beyond cost?

No alternative text description for this image

📊 Forecast bias typically drives 30–50% of forecast error in retail demand plans

📅 Data Point of the Day #207 – Monday

🧠 Takeaway: Most forecast error is not randomness. It is structural bias embedded in assumptions, overrides, and incentives that go unchallenged.

👶 Baby Chains: “Bias is just unmeasured error.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “We adjusted it because last year felt different.”

Source: Gartner Demand Planning Research; Foresight Journal

Where does bias enter your forecasting process today?

#SupplyChainAI #DataStrategy #DigitalSupplyChain #BabyChains #BronxieTheBullwhip

📊 Retailers with high inventory visibility are up to 2.5× more likely to meet customer promise dates

📅 Data Point of the Day #207 – Tuesday

🧠 Takeaway: Service reliability is driven by visibility and accuracy, not speed alone. When inventory positions are trusted and timely, execution becomes predictable and customer promises become achievable.

👶 Baby Chains: “Reliable promises start with reliable inventory.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “We shipped it fast… just not the right thing.”

Source: Gartner Supply Chain Planning Research; NRF Retail Operations Studies

Where does lack of inventory visibility most often break customer promise in your network?

#SupplyChainAI #DataStrategy #DigitalSupplyChain #BabyChains #BronxieTheBullwhip

In 2026, can we all agree we ALL now work in "Digital" and use "AI" as part of our "Strategy" to "Transform" 🤣 

Therefore such words can be safely removed from our titles 😱 

That is all.

📊 65% of retail SKUs contribute less than 5% of total margin

📅 Data Point of the Day #203 – Thursday

🧠 Takeaway: Complexity hides in the long tail, quietly consuming planning, replenishment, and execution capacity with very little return.

👶 Baby Chains: “Not all SKUs deserve the same level of attention.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “Every SKU is strategic… right?”

Source: Bain Retail Economics; NRF Merchandising Research

How often do SKU decisions reflect margin reality vs assortment tradition?

#SupplyChainAI #DataStrategy #DigitalSupplyChain #BabyChains #BronxieTheBullwhip

📊 Retailers lose up to 25% of inventory value due to overstocks, markdowns, and obsolescence
 
🗓️ Data Point of the Day #198 – Saturday

🧠 Takeaway: Inventory is a margin lever, not a buffer.
Excess inventory quietly erodes profit long before it shows up in financials.

👶 Baby Chains: “Inventory you don’t sell still costs you.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “But we might need it later…”

📌 Source: IHL Group, Inventory Distortion Study

❓ Question: Where does excess inventory hide longest in your network?

📊 Warehouses using regular cycle counting see inventory accuracy improve by 10–15 percentage points

📅 Data Point of the Day #209 – Wednesday

🧠 Takeaway: Cycle counting is one of the highest ROI operational disciplines. Small, frequent checks prevent errors from compounding and restore trust across planning, fulfillment, and finance.

👶 Baby Chains: “Accuracy improves when you check reality often.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “We will fix it at the annual physical inventory.”

Source:; APICS Operations Management Research

Where does inventory accuracy break down most often between counts today?

#SupplyChainAI #DataStrategy #DigitalSupplyChain #BabyChains #BronxieTheBullwhip

🎥 NRF is a wrap...what's next?!

NRF reinforced a theme we’ve been circling for a while: retail has moved past experimentation and into execution.

Across 100+ countries represented, the same signals kept showing up:
 • Inventory accuracy directly tied to customer promise
 • Labor still dominating warehouse cost structures
 • Demand volatility continuing to rise
 • Value leaking through overstocks, markdowns, and obsolescence

What stood out most wasn’t a new tool or shiny platform.

It was alignment around trusted data, faster feedback loops, and decisions that actually get executed.

Now the conversation shifts from NRF to what’s next:
 ➡️ RILA
 ➡️ Manifest

Same themes. Deeper operational focus. Higher expectations.

Curious to see how retailers turn momentum into measurable results in the months ahead.

Which one will you be attending, or both  (RILAFEST🤟)? 😱

📊 Transportation invoice errors impact 1–3% of total freight spend

📅 Data Point of the Day #206 – Sunday

🧠 Takeaway: Small error rates compound fast at scale. Freight audit is not about catching mistakes after the fact. It is about eliminating the process gaps that create them.

👶 Baby Chains: “Accuracy scales savings without cutting service.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “It is only a small error on each invoice.”

Source: Accenture Transportation Benchmarking; Cass Information Systems

How much freight spend is reviewed systematically versus assumed correct?

#SupplyChainAI #DataStrategy #DigitalSupplyChain #BabyChains #BronxieTheBullwhip

📊 NRF forecasts U.S. retail sales growth of 2.7–3.7% this year

📅 Data Point of the Day #184 – Saturday

🧠 Takeaway: Growth won’t save inefficient operations. Margin pressure makes execution discipline non-negotiable.

👶 Baby Chains: “Growth rewards the prepared.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “More volume, same problems?”

📌 Source: NRF Annual Retail Sales Forecast

❓ Question: What must change operationally to grow profitably in 2026?

📊 159 million consumers shopped on Super Saturday

📅 Data Point of the Day #185 – Sunday

🧠 Takeaway: Peak demand is now compressed, not spread out. Retail operations must flex faster within narrower windows.

👶 Baby Chains: “Peak is a moment, not a season.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “Everything hit at once.”

📌 Source: NRF Super Saturday Survey

❓ Question: How fast can your operation surge and recover?

📊 Retailers with synchronized item, location, and supplier data reduce replenishment lead time variability by up to 20%

📅 Data Point of the Day #210 – Thursday

🧠 Takeaway: Lead time reliability improves when master data is aligned across merchandising, supply chain, and suppliers. Variability shrinks when everyone plans from the same definitions and calendars.

👶 Baby Chains: “Consistency in data creates consistency in flow.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “The lead time changed again?”

Source: Gartner Supply Chain Data Management Research; MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

Where does lead time variability show up most often in your network today?

#SupplyChainAI #DataStrategy #DigitalSupplyChain #BabyChains #BronxieTheBullwhip

📊 NRF reports retail sales up 4.5% year over year entering peak

📅 Data Point of the Day #189 – Thursday

🧠 Takeaway: Demand strength magnifies execution gaps. Strong sales don’t hide weak processes — they expose them.

👶 Baby Chains: “Volume reveals truth.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “Everything feels tighter.”

📌 Source: CNBC NRF Retail Monitor

❓ Question: What broke first as volume accelerated?

Problem solved!  Thanks GPT!

“Code is cheap. Clarity is expensive.”

🙋‍♂️ Question: Please help!  How do i teach my coders to STOP coding and just Vibe?

💡 You don’t stop coders from coding. You time-box it and reward the vibe.

How to teach “vibe mode”
	1.	Rename it: Call it Discovery, Whiteboard, or Problem Framing. Coders respect intent.
	2.	No-IDE rule: Laptops closed. Markers only. If it can’t be drawn, it’s not ready.
	3.	Problem before solution: One sentence. Who hurts. Why. What “better” means.
	4.	Architecture karaoke: Everyone explains the system out loud from memory.
	5.	Delay dopamine: Coding starts tomorrow. Today is about thinking, not shipping.
	6.	Praise restraint: Celebrate the dev who didn’t open VS Code.

Mantra to repeat:

“Code is cheap. Clarity is expensive.”

Reward the Vibe 😂

graphical user interface, text, application

📊 Retail’s Big Show represents brands from 100+ countries

📅 Data Point of the Day #194 – Tuesday

🧠 Takeaway: Retail complexity is global and shared.
Best practices now travel faster than ever.

👶 Baby Chains: “Learning compounds.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “Same problems everywhere?”

📌 Source: NRF Big Show Who Attends

❓ Question: What lesson from another retailer changed your approach?

RILA, Manifest…..Both?

Bronxie is confused whether he is in Orlando or Vegas.

But don’t worry!

We got you covered! 

VIP events at both this year.  🍾🥂

DM me if you will be at either and want to connect 🙌🤝

📊 Nearly $850B in merchandise is expected to be returned this year

📅 Data Point of the Day #186 – Monday

🧠 Takeaway: Returns are now a core supply chain motion.
Reverse logistics determines post-peak recovery and margin.

👶 Baby Chains: “Returns are supply chain work.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “I thought peak was over…”

📌 Source: NRF Returns Forecast

❓ Question: How prepared is your network for returns velocity?

📊 45% of Super Saturday shoppers used both online and in-store channels

📅 Data Point of the Day #187 – Tuesday

🧠 Takeaway: Omnichannel execution depends on shared truth.
Disconnected inventory and order data breaks promises instantly.

👶 Baby Chains: “One customer. One inventory.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “Wait… where did it sell?”

📌 Source: NRF Consumer Shopping Survey

❓ Question: Where does omnichannel still fracture in your network?

📊 Retailers using real-time fulfillment visibility reduce order exceptions by 20–30%

📅 Data Point of the Day #202 – Wednesday

🧠 Takeaway: Visibility is most powerful when it reduces firefighting and manual exceptions, not when it just adds another dashboard.

👶 Baby Chains: “Seeing problems earlier is the fastest way to reduce work.”

🐶 Bronxie the Bullwhip: “We didn’t see it coming… again.”

Source: McKinsey Retail Operations Research

Where do most of your fulfillment exceptions actually originate?

#SupplyChainAI #DataStrategy #DigitalSupplyChain #BabyChains #BronxieTheBullwhip

Senior operations executive with 25+ years of experience leading large-scale distribution and logistics networks across Canada. Proven track record of stabilizing underperforming operations, scaling capacity, and delivering measurable performance gains in complex, high-volume environments.

Recognized for leading workforces of up to 475 employees with full P&L accountability exceeding $100M. Extensive experience driving major transformation initiatives including WMS deployments, automation, and network optimization, consistently improving throughput, service levels, and cost performance without incremental capital.

Strategic, decisive leader with deep expertise aligning people, process, technology, and automation to deliver sustainable operational results.

Roch Lefrançois

Smart and Safe working solutions are something we need more of in our world of Distribution and Logistics.

This is a good example.

See for yourself.

Original post by Florian Palatini. Solution by ErgoPack Deutschland GmbH

Original credits to Boris Glavaš Eduardo BANZATO Steve Davis

Sr. Director – Operations & Distribution | Automation • Continuous Improvement | Open to New Opportunities (Québec and/or Montréal)

Fluent in engineering l connecting innovators & investors l content sharing 675k followers I @item

Semi automated strapping ⁉️ Twice as fast & 100% ergonomic 💪 

✔️ No bending under the pallet

✔️ One-person operation

✔️ Faster, more consistent strapping

✔️ Less physical strain … every single cycle

by ErgoPack Deutschland GmbH  
via Simone Vietti 
 #ergonomics 
Boris Glavaš Eduardo BANZATO Steve Davis

Inventory integrity is often discussed as an operational topic, but its real impact goes much further. Accuracy issues directly affect financial performance, service reliability, and the ability of an organization to scale without friction.

I just published a new article titled Inventory Integrity: A Direct Driver of Financial Performance, Service Levels, and Growth. It looks at inventory accuracy through a practical lens, connecting warehouse execution to cash flow, customer commitments, and long term growth.

Here is the article. Have a good read and feel free to share.

Inventory integrity is often treated as an operational metric, but its impact extends directly into finance, customer experience, and growth capacity.

Open article: Inventory Integrity: A Direct Driver of Financial Performance, Service Levels, and Growth by Roch Lefrançois • 3 min read

Inventory Integrity: A Direct Driver of Financial Performance, Service Levels, and Growth

There's a trend right now and the post below highlights it.

As much as automation may have been seen as the way forward, with single shipping hubs, reality seems to indicate it isn't always the best strategy.

I'm inviting you to have a read into Ben Angel's post. Someone had the chance to connect with. He's passionate and very much into it.

On another note, I'm still around despite less posts lately. Worry not, more articles to come. Always available through DMs as well.

Warehouse Operations & Fulfillment Strategy

Macy's plans to close its automated direct-to-consumer fulfillment facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma this spring.

The 1.3-million-sq-ft site near Owasso went live in 2015 amid significant industry attention and was designed to support large-scale e-commerce fulfillment. At peak, the operation supported roughly 1,500 full- and part-time employees, plus an additional ~1,000 seasonal associates.

This announcement adds to a growing list of closures and strategic reversals by large retailers that made heavy, long-term investments in dedicated, highly automated e-commerce fulfillment centers.

The pattern is becoming harder to ignore: Automation architectures — software and hardware alike — that lack the flexibility to adapt to changing consumer behavior don’t survive.

One additional dimension worth considering is vendor lock-in. This facility was designed by a well-known automation vendor using a tightly coupled, largely proprietary architecture — effectively a “black-box” integration across material flow, controls, software, and fixed hardware such as conveyors, sortation, and pick-to-light. I can only speculate, but it’s plausible that modifying or redesigning the flow to support today’s faster and more volatile demand patterns would have been both too costly and too time-consuming — making closure the faster and more economically rational option.

By contrast, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics and Walmart are actively upgrading similarly aged fulfillment facilities across the US and Canada, layering in newer robotics and automated workflow technologies. A key difference is that both retain full control of their automation orchestration and software layers, allowing them to swap, evolve, and integrate hardware from multiple vendors without being locked into any single architecture or single vendor.

If you’re evaluating automating your warehouse — or reassessing an existing facility — and want to better understand how to retain control of your automation orchestration layer, included your WCS and WES, while minimizing long-term vendor lock-in, I’m happy to compare notes and make independent recommendations.

taplio

The Battle

Tim Judge

Roch Lefrançois

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance ScoreTim Judge's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreRoch Lefrançois's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

taplio

The Battle

Tim Judge

Roch Lefrançois

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance Score.css-goub6s{font-size:var(--chakra-fontSizes-md);font-weight:500;color:var(--chakra-colors-gray-600);display:block;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-1);}Tim Judge's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreRoch Lefrançois's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

Performance ScoreTim Judge's LinkedIn Performance