Tech Bytes: DHL and Tecsys

DHL expands its supply chain risk management tool Resilience360, while Tecsys sees operating profits rise 6 percent in the first nine months of its fiscal year.    DHL is expanding its supply chain risk management tool Resilience360, adding tools to allow customers to visualize the route of their supply chain by integrating Resilience360 with the company’s Transport Management System.
   Customers can use the integration to check for the latest position and status of all their shipments worldwide, DHL said.
   “This will make it easier for customers to correlate shipments with disruptive incidents and identify potentially affected areas that require corrective actions,” the company said. “A new country-specific risk page will also provide customers with an overview of supply chain relevant risk scores and incident trends.”
   The Resilience360 platform alerts customers about global incidents and risks to their global supply chain in near real time. DHL said it has been deployed for customers in Asia, Europe and the Americas, with the biggest uptakes in the automotive, chemicals, life sciences and technology sectors.
   “Corporate supply chain organizations are siloed, operate on a regional basis, and are disconnected among regions and even sites,” said Tobias Larsson, head of the DHL resilience team. “As a result, they lack visibility and span of control beyond their part of the operation. That may work day to day, but when you’re in crisis, it can be a problem.”

   The Montreal-based logistics software provider Tecsys said this week its operating profits rose 6 percent, to $1.2 million, on revenue that rose 22 percent, to $33.3 million, in the first nine months of its fiscal year.
   Tecsys provides enterprise, warehousing, and transportation management solutions to logistics companies.