487: 1.3 Million IoT Events Per Day?! How Blume Global is Making Visibility Data Usable
Chris Haas is a Business Development Executive for Rail at Blume Global, bringing nearly two decades of experience in 3PL operations and logistics. He specializes in leading strategic growth initiatives for railroads and private asset fleets. Haas argues that the key to modernizing the intermodal network is not just collecting IoT data, but making it usable through rule-based platforms that provide actionable intelligence. He emphasizes that by creating a shared source of truth, IoT technology enables a shift from reactive problem-solving to proactive optimization, creating a win-win scenario for all stakeholders.
Today I’m joined by Blume Global, a company that’s all about transforming supply chains, from sourcing to delivery.
Blume Global’s solutions digitize and streamline every step of the supply chain, with a platform that really hinges on empowerment – empowering manufacturers, suppliers, logistics service providers, carriers, and terminal operators with enhanced visibility, seamless execution, and operational efficiency.
Today Chris Haas, Business Development Executive for Rail at Blume Global, will be talking all about how IoT is reinventing rail freight visibility. We’ll be diving into why rail freight needs a visibility revolution; IoT’s expanding role in freight optimization; how Blume is helping customers unlock efficiency, security, and competitiveness; and building a more agile, optimized intermodal network – for everyone.
Guest bio:
Chris Haas brings nearly two decades of experience in 3PL operations and logistics software, with a strong focus on business development in the North American railroad market. At Blume Global, he leads strategic growth initiatives for asset-owning railroads and private-asset fleets, helping them adopt technology to enhance efficiency and visibility. Chris serves as the key point of contact for railroad stakeholders, managing commercial programs for both domestic and international assets. His work has been central to advancing real-time visibility through the deployment of IoT and GPS technologies across the rail ecosystem.
IoT and its role in intermodal.
The big, macro-level challenges Blume see across the intermodal freight ecosystem.
How big industry challenges translate to a business level, the day-to-day challenges Blume see their clients facing, and why visibility is critical to navigating those challenges.
The lack of IoT adoption across North America and, despite that underdeveloped adoption, the huge potential IoT holds to modernize intermodal operations.
How IoT has evolved, particularly for rail.
The different types of use cases for IoT in intermodal freight, and their impacts.
Why IoT is a win-win for all stakeholders from shippers and railroads to IMCs, and how it’s delivering tangible benefits across the entire supply chain.
The Blume tools that process 1.3 million IoT events per day, and what those events look like.
How the Blume platform helps customers to manage all of that data and deliver visibility for scale and flexibility.
A case study exploring how Blume worked with an IMC to establish geofencing and GPS tracking solutions, helping them achieve a range of positive results from real-time visibility to recovering stolen containers.
How IoT can help to build a more agile, optimized intermodal network, and the impact of that for the industry.
What’s to come for Blume Global.
Resources & Links Mentioned
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- If you enjoyed this episode and want to hear more about Blume Global, check out 330: Transform Every Move, Every Mode and Every Mile, with Blume Global or 346: Enable and Empower Your Supply Chain, with WiseTech.
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