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?

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📊 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

Sheldon Mydat

Suppeco is an award winning transformational SaaS platform, delivering a paradigm shift in B2B attitude.

Trusted by market leaders, Suppeco is the next generation of collaborative relationship platform. Enabling organisations in any industry to drive an infinite array of targeted opportunity for value creation and growth. 

Transparency.
Actionable visibility.
Frictionless access.
Supplier performance excellence. 
Adaptability and resilience.   
Social audit compliance.
Innovation & growth. 

Visit our page and say hello. Click to follow, stay connected for news, regular updates, new releases, concessions and advice. 

Experienced Procurement Leader.
Tech Founder & Innovator. 
Collaborative Supplier Relationships (a.k.a SRM) Procurement & Commercial Professional. 

Engaging with clients to promote best in class customer-supplier relationships.

Transition Modelling analysis and negotiation for outsource, M&A, divestment, and exit. 

Functional governance modelling, operational risk assurance,
Binding collaboration and incentive,
Core innovation - vision road-maps & frameworks.

Clients include:
public-sector, logistics, financial services, communications, defence, SI consultancy, and some of today’s most recognised names.

Specialities: 

Suppeco Collaborative Relationships
Supplier Management Optimisation
Transition Modelling for Outsource & Divestment

Founder and CEO

Hatchet Job or Life Line - AI on Procurement. 

Automation is already stripping out large parts of the job - analytics, reporting, process, compliance. That’s a done-deal. Procurement doesn’t get a say. The lower ground has gone. Or at least it now has a shelf life. And procurement 5 is pushing commoditisation. So it’s not just enterprise. Tech is more accessible now than ever. This is an adapt or die scenario. 

The only ground left is where AI can’t operate: judgment, ethics, complex negotiation, relationships, and real business leadership.

Ironically, this is where procurement has a serious problem.

Too many people in the profession don’t know how to work with other humans. They hide behind process, default to binary thinking, confuse rudeness with strength, and call it being “commercial”. It isn’t. It’s unprofessional.

Ghosting suppliers. Stonewalling stakeholders. Avoiding hard conversations. This behaviour is rampant - and it’s exactly why procurement has carried a bad reputation for years.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: as automation removes low-value work, procurement becomes less analytical and far more relationship-led. That demands business acumen, emotional intelligence, and ethical judgment. Many people simply don’t have those skills and have shown no interest in developing them.

If you’re scrambling up the value ladder looking for safer ground, ask yourself honestly:

▪️Can you negotiate properly?
▪️Can you influence without authority?
▪️Can you build trust and still deliver outcomes?

If not, AI isn’t your threat: relevance is.

Procurement has a narrow window to become a serious business function. If it doesn’t, it won’t be transformed.

It will quietly die - and this time, there is no pandemic. 

Full read in SRM Today https://lnkd.in/e-mFKNYR

CEO at Suppeco (IDC Named Innovator) Revolutionising SRM | Procurement and Supply Chain Leader | Supplier Relationship Evangelist & Speaker.

Six years ago, we started something with BAE Systems Digital Intelligence that went well beyond “supplier management”.

The ambition was simple, but bold:
Move from arms-length, spreadsheet-driven oversight to genuinely collaborative, transparent, value-creating relationships.

What followed was a shift:

▪️From KPI hindsight to real-time, shared operational truth
▪️From contract compliance to relationship performance
▪️From one-sided governance to mutual visibility, trust and accountability
▪️From cost control to innovation, resilience and joint value creation

As Simon King Head of Supplier Operations put it at the time, Suppeco helped “bring structure and visibility to aspects of supplier relationships that were previously intangible” – and, crucially, gave suppliers an equal voice in the conversation.

Six years on, that early collaboration still represents what SRM should really be about:

▪️Not systems.
▪️Not dashboards.
▪️Not process theatre.

But behaviour, trust, reciprocity, and the willingness to work in the open.

Proud of the partnership. Proud of the outcomes. And grateful to the BAE Systems Digital Intelligence team for being true pioneers of collaborative #SRM.

“If you were a traffic light, what colour would you be?”

My 8yr old son asked me this.
I said green - because I like to go! 
He said red - because red gets to decide when everyone else stops! Pretty typical for an 8yr old. 

I was super impressed with his question. It stuck with me.

🚦Green assumes progress comes from action.

🚦Red assumes progress comes from control.

Most organisations think they’re green.
Plenty of leaders think they’re red.
The best ones know when to be neither, and when to change! 

Not bad for a question asked on the school run. 

#procurement #leadership

Couldn’t resist! Dave Jones MCIPS  

#Procuary is around the corner and Suppeco man is on the case supporting the Procuary security guards.

📢 The word STRATEGIC is often used as cover for charging lots of money.
❓ Who agrees or has experience of this??

Suppeco is democratising and dare I say commoditising accessibility.

◾ Pushing back against user based licencing. 

◾ Pushing back against hidden licence restrictions and cost.

◾ Pushing back against functionality cost traps.

◾ Pushing back on enterprise only playbooks.

Simplicity over Complexity. The Big Leveller. 
Pop over to Suppeco and Say Hi 👋

Suppeco Social Aspirations

📢 If your CPO, or CEO asked... 

⁉️ “I’m due to meet with the CEO of our strategic suppliers - A, B, and C, let me have supplier briefs”.

🫵 how fast could you answer? In fact let's just start with 1 supplier. 

🔎 Without a digital supplier account plan, you'd probably spend days reaching out to several individuals to pull that information together. 

A supplier account plan on Suppeco brings it all together:

🔵 One place. Full context. Real visibility.

🔵 Not just for procurement - for the business.

See for yourself. Pop over to Suppeco say hi! take a tour!

Digital Supplier Account Plans 

What’s the common link?

▪️SaaS fails on adoption, not functionality.

▪️Transformation fails on change, not strategy or tooling.

▪️SRM fails on relationships, not contracts or KPIs.

In each case, the limiting factor isn’t tech or process, it’s human behaviour: trust, incentives, habits, power dynamics, and willingness to embrace change.

Take REAL SRM. You’re not digitising a workflow; you’re intervening in a live, emotional system between people in organisations. Software can expose signals, create structure, and reduce friction - but it can’t force collaboration. It can only enable it where people are prepared to meet it halfway.

Which is why most “SRM platforms” traditionally defaulted to scorecards and dashboards. It was always easier than dealing with people!

Ironically, change has catapulted SRM to prominence in 2026

▪️SRM tops recruitment priority focus surveys.
▪️SRM tops procurement focus for driving resilience.
▪️SRM tech in 2026 is a major growth area. 

Today’s biggest value opportunity sits in unstructured data. That’s operational, not systemic. Suppeco leads in turning that operational layer into value.

The common link is people. Always has been. Always will be. You can buy better software, mandate better process, and publish better KPIs. But unless behaviour changes, outcomes won’t. SRM isn’t a tooling problem. It’s a behavioural opportunity.

SupplyChain - An Overhead!??

Previously, vendor management and supply chain were viewed as costs. If a subject didn't contain the word "customer", it was deemed an overhead. What do we do with overheads? Reduce them.  

That outdated over simplistic view has a lot to answer for. Today, supplier data is one of the most valuable commodities. Businesses run on supplier data.  
   
The reality is: most of that data lives in operations. It’s messy, unstructured, semi-structured, scattered across systems, and deeply contextual. And that’s exactly where the value lives. It needs to be extracted.  

At Suppeco, SuppEQ AI doesn’t wait around for sanitised, curated datasets that never arrive. It works at scale in the murky world of unstructured, often “dirty” operational data - extracting intelligence, context, and foresight that clean data advocates simply never reach.

Come say Hi 👋 Take a closer look! 

🔗 https://www.suppeco.com

#Suppeco #SupplierData #SRM #AI

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