As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series.
This time it is Guy Courtin, VP of Industry and Advanced Technology for Tecsys, a Toronto based supply chain software company. He had previously presented in this series about warehouse bots when he was at 6 River Systems
Tecsys is not a new company by any means (they were founded in 1983) but with all the supply chain chaos in the last couple of years, they have seen growing opportunities especially in the health care, retail and distribution verticals they focus on.
While Guy goes into product details I liked how he covered trends in those verticals. He talks about cold chain logistics in vaccine delivery and Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) in healthcare. We talk about reverse logistics, micro-fulfillment, direct to consumer and private label trends in retail and distribution. We spend some time on Costco’s Kirkland brand.
We talk about how lean inventories may be a thing of the past and how that is affecting inventory depot and warehouse sizing and design. He discusses the impact of sustainability on supply chains. And how consumer expect similar experiences across industries. (Accenture’s design agency Fjord has a term for that - “liquid expectations”)
He talks about how the supply chain planning market is evolving – still cannot handle the execution intricacies they can. And how broader planning vendors are still better at financial and hr planning, not supply chain.
He also discusses their own journey from an on-prem to a cloud vendor.
Nicely done in about 25 minutes
