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Supplying The Future Demands | Félix Adrien Bélisle Dockrill
AXYA
“The manufacturing sector will have no choice but to
digitally transform itself to use the data it generates on a
daily basis, especially when it relates to the supply chain.”
SUPPLYING
C
THE FUTURE
DEMANDS
FÉLIX ADRIEN BÉLISLE DOCKRILL
CEO & CO-FOUNDER, AXYA
NEXT AI (MONTREAL), 2020
anadian business owners who
want to avoid time consuming
and inefficient subcontracting
of metal parts will find that
their best bet is often just outsourcing
it all, but these like-minded companies
are now thinking about working with
domestic suppliers due to all of the
complexities that come along with the
overseas supply chains. In many cases, it
can take days or weeks to get a quote or
an update – especially if there’s a time
difference. These supply chain delays
can derail production timelines or cause
a product to not get made at all. Axya,
co-founded in 2019, by manufacturing
industry veterans who believed there
was a better way for companies to
handle the subcontracting process. Axya
aims to help bring their network of 450+
buyers and 350+ domestic suppliers
specializing in metalworking parts.
Félix Bélisle, CEO & Co-Founder, holds
a background in mechanical engineering
with a data-driven and multifaceted
management
approach.
Through
Axya, Bélisle has enabled numerous
companies to localize portions of their
global supply chains and mitigate the
impacts of worldwide production
delays— especially those caused by the
unprecedented circumstances with the
Covid-19 pandemic.
A few months ago, the direction
of the business evolved from a
“marketplace” - where the main benefit
for manufacturers was to connect with
new suppliers - to a complete turnkey
solution that integrates smoothly in
their processes already in place. With
this new solution, customers see their
purchasing process being completely
automated to drastically reduce the time
spent on repetitive and non-added value
operational tasks. Axya manages all the
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information that is exchanged with their
suppliers so they can now access data
that was impossible to get before.
Today, Axya is a team of 30+ employees
globally and is rapidly scaling by digitizing
and automating the purchasing process
allowing manufacturers to save time, be
more efficient, access unprecedented
data reports and save money.
ACCORDING TO A HARVARD BUSINESS
REVIEW, ONLY 8% OF ENTERPRISES
HAVE ACHIEVED DIGITAL MATURITY
IN THEIR SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATIONS.
Having access to real-time data and
visibility on their supply is not even
thinkable for most enterprises. Yet
90% of executives say that this kind
of visibility is needed to ensure that
strategic decisions are correctly made.
Bélisle has seen with the pandemic
how brittle the supply chain is and how
much it has an impact on every aspect
of society.
This is too much of a pain point for
industries not to change, and Bélisle
believes that the pandemic was
the perfect push to accelerate this
transformation. “In 5 years, we will get to
a point where having total visibility over
the supply chain is a given. This will of
course will coincide with the Axya IPO”
In 2021, Axya prepared the business
for scaling. Now it is time to accelerate
their expansion, starting with the US
market in 2022, while continuing to
demonstrate added value to established
leaders within the industry in order to
gain credibility and grow.
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Talk to your customers. If you
are not talking to them you are
wasting your time.
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Understand where you are good
at and where you are not, bring
people together so that your
strengths complement one
another.
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Be kind and help others.
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Your network and reputation are
your most important assets.
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Do what you can, with what you
have, where you are. Wishing for
something that you don’t have
access to is pointless.
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Be bold and get moving!
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Axya is looking for new talents.
Discover positions currently available.
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