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Work that lives on someone else's site. Mostly writing about warehouse execution, labor management, and where automation actually pays off, from my years in supply chain operations.
WES vs. WMS in Picking Optimization
A WMS tells you what should happen. A WES reacts to what is actually happening. Where that difference shows up in picking: mispicks, urgent orders, and keeping pickers on live priorities instead of a static plan.
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What the Tour de France Teaches Us About Supply Chain Strategy
Race tactics as a supply chain lesson: the setup moves that never show up in anyone's throughput numbers, and why system-level coordination beats individual speed.
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What Airports Can Teach Us About Warehouse and Manufacturing Flow
Planes, passengers, gates, checkpoints, ground crews. An airport is a warehouse that lets you watch the bottleneck happen in real time, which makes it a useful way to think about flow control.
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The Case For Using 2 Labor Management Models
Where classic industrial engineering standards fit, where AI and ML models fit, and why forcing a single model to cover every task in the building does not work.
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Tetris: It's A Lot Like Managing a Warehouse
Every piece arrives whether you are ready or not, the gaps you leave early cost you later, and the speed only goes one direction. Warehouse flow explained through a game everyone already understands.
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- What a Road Trip Taught Me About Warehouse Planning
- Don't Let Your Automation Get Stuck in the Weeds
- The Most Common Automation Pitfall
- We're Leaving Too Early for the Airport (and What It Means for Your Operation)
- Enhancing Multi-Tenant 3PLs with WES
- Built to Flex: How LogistiVIEW Balances Speed and Specialization
- Key Considerations for a Successful Automation Investment
- Consolidating Automation Management
- A3 Business Forum 2025
- Square Peg, Round Hole: Enhancing a 3PL's Automated Picking System with a Manual VAS Process