TraceLink has appointed Bharath Sundararaman as general manager of its intelligent supply network business area. Mr. Sundararaman comes to TraceLink after ten years at Merck KGaA, where he most recently focused on transforming the company’s global manufacturing and supply function into a “self-driving supply chain.” At TraceLink, he will use his experience to lead a business area responsible for introducing predictive analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI), built on information sharing models that allow network members to better meet the needs of every patient they serve.
 
Mr. Sundararaman and his team will be focused on helping TraceLink customers realize the transformative value of their serialization investments. His onboarding enables TraceLink to continue its growth strategy and deliver on its vision of an open development platform for information sharing and analytics, which will begin to come to fruition in 2020.
 
“We’re delighted to welcome Bharath Sundararaman to our growing team of industry experts on top of our recent hires including leading former Gartner analysts John Bermudez and Roddy Martin,” said Shabbir Dahod, president and chief executive officer, TraceLink. “Bharath brings extensive domain expertise in advanced analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He and his team will build solutions that utilize the data generated by the orchestration applications running on our Digital Network Platform. These analytics solutions will help our customers optimize their supply chains and ultimately provide the intelligence needed to ensure every patient gets the treatment they need, when they need it.”