Navigating the Red Sea Shipping Crisis: Implications and Insights
Blume Global is committed to an ethical, purpose-driven supply chain ecosystem and creating a more sustainable environment through providing an open, neutral platform across all trading partners to drive asset optimization, predictive visibility and traceability.
Who We Are, What We Stand For
At Blume Global, we are committed to an ethical, purpose-driven supply chain that benefits all parties. A purposeful supply chain is optimized, efficient, effective, responsible and employs environmentally sustainable practices. The potential of an orchestrated, collaborative supply chain that addresses environmental and social challenges is profound.
Blume helps optimize moves to reduce carbon emissions, provides visibility and traceability, empowers small businesses and emerging economies, and orchestrates the delivery of goods where they are needed most. This is the Blume Global promise to our customers and partners.
Our Mission
Optimize Supply Chains
With the current logistics spend at $18 Trillion, Blume Global is committed to removing $1 Trillion of waste through its digital supply chain platform.
Lower Carbon Emissions
Blume Global allows users to minimize carbon output through carbon emissions tracking, supply chain optimization and empty miles reduction.
Empower Small Businesses
Blume’s digital supply chain technology levels the playing field for smaller suppliers and carriers to operate as efficiently as larger companies.
What They Say About Us
“We are helping our clients drive digital supply chain transformations that align them closer with their customers, understand and respond faster to demand, and significantly reduce costs. The Blume platform builds on our team’s enterprise software expertise to deliver solutions that enable our customers to re-invent their supply chains.”
“The Blume team invested significant time and effort to understand the issues and information, and then developed an innovative, responsive and flexible tool that clearly showed where we had opportunities to improve load cycle performance.”
“Blume Global enables us to provide critical shipment visibility to our customers. Blume Global connects our pickup and delivery partners worldwide and makes it easier for them to meet our tight reporting requirements, while standardizing the process for the benefit of our offices as well.”
“We’re delighted that Blume Global will bring its leading digital supply chain capabilities to Google Cloud. Retail customers want to modernize quickly, and our partnership with Blume will be an asset to them, letting them leverage Blume’s expertise in supply chain alongside the scalability, flexibility and leading AI and ML capabilities of Google Cloud.”
“We are excited to welcome Blume Global to the ASUG network, which is made up of some of the most dynamic and cutting-edge SAP customers in the world...Our members represent the best of the best companies that are capitalizing on today’s latest technologies — including supply chain — and we can’t wait for the Blume team to share their knowledge and expertise with our members to help drive their success.”
“Blume Global is a critical digital supply chain platform that will allow us to deliver an exceptional logistics experience to our customers while driving aggressive global expansion goals...For our customers, Blume’s capabilities enhance our ability to manage our customers’ complex supply chains. This addition will help take us to the next level, arming us with critical real-time information and powerful, data-driven capabilities to measure and optimize our entire process while maximizing efficiency, as well as leveraging Blume’s comprehensive network of motor carriers.”
executives
Sudhir Unnikrishnan
SVP & Managing Director of India
Sudhir Unnikrishnan, managing director of Blume Global India, joined the company with more than 25 years of experience in finance and operational roles. Prior to joining Blume, Unnikrishnan spent a decade at PWC as a senior finance director, and he also served for five years as a finance director at Manhattan Associates. He has a track record of building offshore centers, and he has extensive leadership experience running efficient operations for the captive units.
Yogesh Thanaseelan
GVP of R&D
Yogesh Thanaseelan, Blume Global’s group vice president of product development, joined the company with more than two decades of experience in architecting and building enterprise class software products. Before joining Blume, he spent 17 years in supply chain technology space at Manhattan Associates and has been instrumental in creating multiple products in transportation / warehouse management domain. At Blume Global, he leads the research and development group from India.
Anders Maudal
VP Sales, North America
Anders Maudal is Blume Global’s vice president of sales for North America. Before joining Blume, he worked for more than 25 years building and leading enterprise sales teams at several global technology companies. Maudal spent 16 years at Oracle, where he had responsibility nationally for Oracle’s enterprise SaaS solutions for supply chain execution and planning, enterprise resource planning and enterprise performance management in several industry verticals.
Lisa Lewis
VP of Customer Success
Lisa Lewis is Blume Global’s Vice President of Customer Success. She has spent over 20 years in the supply chain industry within the software space leading global support teams, while forging strategies for improving customer satisfaction. Prior to coming on board with Blume she focused on building and improving organizational structures for onboarding, ongoing support and learning and development for customers and internal teams at organizations such as Infor. Customer experience is an essential aspect for Blume and key area of focused and continual growth.
Thirumalai Krishan
VP, Professional Services
Thirumalai Krishnan (TK) is Blume Global’s vice president of professional services. Before joining Blume, he worked for more than 26 years leading enterprise professional services teams at several global technology companies. TK came over from E2open where he was responsible for the Supply Chain Planning practice and prior to that at Blue Yonder/JDA/Manugistics, where he had the responsibility for delivering supply chain planning and execution solutions for several industry verticals.
Shawn Perry
VP and Controller G&A - FSG
As Vice President and Controller at Blume Global, Shawn Perry leads the Financial Services Group with the support of the CFO running all the company’s day to day financial functions, including accounting, audit, treasury, and corporate finance. Shawn also oversees the financial services for Blume’s products as well as the facilities activities in our Canton, Ma office. Shawn joined Blume Global originally REZ-1 in 2001 and is one of Blume’s longest tenured employees with over 15 years of service.
Awards
Blume Global Receives 2020 FreightTech 100 Award | Recognized as One of the Most Innovative and Disruptive Companies in Freight
Awards
Blume Global Receives Gold Winner Level Recognition for Achievement of the Year | Corporate Branding
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Awards
Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Pros to Know
Pervinder Johar, CEO Blume Global, recognized by Supply & Demand Chain Executive for innovation and industry leadership.
Awards
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