Jan Sundelin Of TIE Kinetix On How To Use Digital Transformation To Take Your Company To The Next Level

Be proactive rather than reactive. In our industry, supply chains have faced a lot of disruption as a result of COVID-19, and many have struggled to achieve business continuity in unexpected circumstances. They reacted by rushing to adopt digital technologies to solve problems in the short term but quickly realized that what they really need is a long-term plan. When a business is proactive, it can achieve digital transformation in a more thoughtful, phased approach.

As part of our series about “How To Use Digital Transformation To Take Your Company To The Next Level”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jan Sundelin.

Jan Sundelin is CEO of TIE Kinetix where he helps companies to bring digital transformation efforts to the next level through EDI and e-invoicing software. With 30+ years of experience in the IT industry and 15 years in executive management, Jan pioneered the notion of 100% supply chain digitalization and has brought TIE Kinetix to the forefront of innovation at a global level.

Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series. Before we dive in, our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your ‘backstory’ and how you got started?

I’m an old goat, so I’ll try to keep it short. I was born in Sweden and lived there until I was nearly 30. I attended Karlstad University in Sweden and entered the IT industry shortly thereafter. My career began with a sales job in IT hardware (printer sales), and I relocated to the Netherlands right before I turned 30. I’ve been living and working there ever since, and although I did end up living in the U.S. for a few years in the early 2000s, my wife and two daughters wanted to go back to Holland. So that’s where I am now.

When I first moved back to the Netherlands, I wanted to get out of hardware sales and move into the software space, so that’s what…