Mike Landry’s entrepreneurial spirit has been a driving force throughout his career, shaping his path from the early days of startups to his current endeavors. From the moment he graduated from Georgia Tech, Landry set out on a journey marked by innovation and a keen understanding of the importance of supply chain visibility and planning.
Landry embraced the challenges and uncertainties of the startup world very early in his career, identifying several gaps and opportunities in the software and supply chain market. Recognizing the market need, he seized an opportunity to establish Servigistics, a service parts planning software company. Starting from a humble basement office in his home, Landry embarked on the challenging journey of building a company from the ground up. Steered by Landry’s unwavering determination and entrepreneurial mindset, Servigistics grew into a global leader in its field, transforming the way businesses managed their service parts operations.
Landry embarked on another ambitious endeavor when he co-founded Barkawi North America. This supply chain management consulting firm complemented his existing expertise, providing holistic solutions to businesses seeking to optimize their operations. Landry guided Barkawi North America to achieve international recognition, solidifying its position as a go-to resource for companies in need of strategic guidance worldwide.
In September 2018, Landry joined Genpact as Senior Vice President Supply Chain Service Line Global Leader and spearheaded several transformative initiatives that propelled Genpact to new heights. His strategic vision paved the way for enhanced operational efficiency, streamlined processes, and improved customer satisfaction overall.
Joining ketteQ
The latest chapter in Landry’s career is ketteQ, a transformative digital platform for supply chain planning and automation solutions built in and deployed on AWS and Salesforce clouds. The company recently made headlines with its successful completion of a Series A funding round, raising an impressive $9 million. Now as the CEO of ketteQ, Landry’s vision is fully set on pushing boundaries and revolutionizing supply chain management once again. Armed with vast experience and proven expertise, Landry leads a dedicated team united by a shared commitment to operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. He envisions ketteQ as a driving force in the industry, providing innovative solutions that redefine supply chain visibility and planning while fostering collaboration and strategic partnerships on a global scale.
“At the core, we are a software company. But through the different business models we’ve built before, we know transformation and managed services can be critical offerings that maximize the value our solutions unlock. We are called to be a true and complete partner with our customers on their journey to improve the performance and predictability of their supply chain functions.”- explains Landry.
Empowering Businesses to Make Informed Decisions
With a clear vision for innovating supply chain visibility, Mike Landry is leading ketteQ to become the global leader in supply chain planning, automation and control tower solutions. By harnessing the power of cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI), ketteQ is revolutionizing how businesses gain visibility and control over their supply chain operations.
ketteQ’s innovative, end-to-end visibility and optimization platform is built on a cloud-native architecture that uniquely leverages the Salesforce and AWS clouds. The solutions enable companies to make data-driven decisions and reduce costs while improving customer service. The company’s technology leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to create dynamic models and scenario planning, allowing a broad range of customers to optimize their inventory, logistics, production, material and service parts operations, and helping global brands such as Carrier, Trimble and Coca-Cola Bottlers of Japan, better meet supply chain demands.
What sets ketteQ apart from its competition is its commitment to innovation. While many of its competitors are still constrained by antiquated legacy systems and practices, ketteQ embraces the latest technologies to stay at the forefront of the industry.
Key USPs
According to Mike Landry, three significant advantages set ketteQ apart from its competitors:
- Cloud-Native Architecture: ketteQ’s systems are built on a completely cloud-native architecture, providing a unique advantage. This allows the firm to take a polymatic approach and find the best combination of decisions to deploy, like sourcing, stocking, producing, procurement, and transportation. Companies make thousands of these decisions every day across their operation, and ketteQ tests tens of thousands of options in seconds for them, leveraging its multi-tenant AWS cloud computing capacity sharing. This provides a tremendous advantage by delivering millions in cost savings and efficiency to its clients.
- Front-End on Salesforce Platform: ketteQ is the only provider that has a front-end built and deployed on the Salesforce platform. This integration enables the firm to capture and shape pipeline and demand signals, driving superior results in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes. By leveraging the capabilities of the Salesforce platform, ketteQ delivers enhanced visibility and insights to optimize supply chain performance.
- Total Supply Chain Focus: Unlike its legacy competitors, ketteQ started with the idea of addressing the entire supply chain. As a result, ketteQ’s data model, analytics, and workflow are fully designed to cater to the specific needs of distributors, manufacturers, and service operations.
Future Roadmap
Landry’s vision for ketteQ is built around creating a meaningful and lasting impact on all stakeholders involved, including the team, customers, partners, and vendors.
Landry also wants to create an environment that can help ketteQ’s team thrive both personally and professionally. By fostering a culture of growth development and fulfillment, Landry aims to empower his team members to reach their full potential and build long-lasting relationships along the way.
“I hope ketteQ makes a meaningful and lasting impact on everyone on the team, our customers, partners, and vendors, both professionally and personally. We want to do everything we do with excellence and integrity, creating a brand we can all be proud of,”- Landry said.