Kinaxis

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Kinaxis Inc.
Type Public
Industry IT services
Founded1984;39 years ago (1984)
FoundersDuncan Klett [1] [2] and 2 others
Headquarters3199 Palladium Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K2T 0N9
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • John Sicard (President and CEO)
  • Paul Carreiro (Chief Revenue Officer)
  • Blaine Fitzgerald (Chief Financial Officer)
  • Anne G. Robinson (Chief Strategy Officer)
ServicesSupply Chain Management Sales and Operation Planning
Number of employees
1000 Worldwide (~500 in Canada)
Website www.kinaxis.com

Kinaxis is a supply chain management and sales and operation planning software company based in the Kanata district of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is a S&P/TSX Composite Component.

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The company was founded in 1984 by Duncan Klett [3] and two others as Cadence Computer Corporation [4] and went public in June 2014. [5] It has 500 employees. [6]

Business

Kinaxis provides supply-chain-management software on a subscription basis, primarily to large, multinational companies. Customers include Ford, Cisco, Qualcomm, and Avaya. [7] They also provide related professional services to their customers. Contracts typically run for two to five years. [6] Their main product is called RapidResponse. [8] As of 2017, approximately 77% of revenue came from subscriptions, with the remainder from professional services. [9] Kinaxis also allows other companies, including Deloitte and Bain & Company, to install Kinaxis software for a percentage of the subscription revenues. [6] Kinaxis runs two data centers in South Korea. It has approximately 100 customers and about 5% of an estimated $4 billion market for software related to supply chain planning. [10] [11] As of 2016, 85% of revenue was from US customers, 4% from Canadian customers, 8% from Asian customers, and the rest from European customers. [9] Competitors in the supply chain management software industry include SAP SE and JDA Software. [12] In 2017, a significant customer in Asia stopped paying, leading to a 3% reduction in revenue for the company. [6]

History

Kinaxis was founded in 1984 as Cadence Computer Corporation, to do supply-chain analysis of using custom mainframe computers, by three former Mitel engineers. [11] The name was later changed to Carp Systems International (after the nearby Carp River), then Enterprise Planning Systems. [6] In the mid 1990s, it changed its name to Webplan, and shifted from making hardware to providing software.[ citation needed ]

Recent history

In 2000, it led a venture round that raised $33 million. [11] In 2005, it renamed itself Kinaxis, and started focusing on selling software by subscription, as opposed to collecting a one-time fee. [11] In June 2014, it held an IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange, raising a total of $100 million. [13] Since then, its market capitalization has increased to $1.7 billion, as of August 2017. [6] In 2022 they acquired MPO. MPO is Multi party Orchestration platform connecting Supply Chain actors.

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  5. ↑ "Supply Chain Management and S&OP Solution Company - Kinaxis RapidResponse". www.kinaxis.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bagnall, James (August 13, 2017). "Kanata's Kinaxis takes a rare hit, but still 'punching giants in the nose'". The Ottawa Citizen.
  7. ↑ "Kinaxis Customers Achieve Operations Performance Breakhroughs with RapidResponse". www.kinaxis.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  8. ↑ "How Kinaxis harnesses the cloud to tame global supply chains". Canadian Business. February 29, 2016.
  9. 1 2 "Kinaxis 2016 Annual Report". Kinaxis Inc.
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