Company Research Report: Pando (Quaking Aspen, Inc.)
Company Overview
- Name: Pando
- Mission: To help the brands we love, serve us better by making them more affordable, accessible, and environmentally friendly through optimizing and automating supply chain operations.
- Founded: Pando was co-founded by Abhijeet Manohar, former systems architect at Sandisk, and Nitin Jayakrishnan, previous co-founder of iDelivery, in an undisclosed year.
- Headquarters: No specific information available regarding headquarters location.
- Key People:
- Nitin Jayakrishnan, Chief Executive Officer
- Abhijeet Manohar, Chief Technology Officer
- Jim Hilbert, Chief Revenue Officer
- Parvesh Ghai, Head of Enterprise Sales
- Prakash Ramnath, Head of Revenue Marketing
- Badrinath Setlur, Head of Professional Services
- Ganesh Iyer, Head of Pre-Sales
- Honeydeep Singh, Head of People Success
- Prasad Krishnan, Head of Engineering
- Nigamanth Srivatsan, Director of Product Management
- Deepti Khemka, Director of Presales - NAMER
- Vimal Nair, Director of Product Management
- Nimesh Patel, Vice President of Global Alliances & Strategy
- Sridhar Ranganathan, Vice President of Finance
- Vijay Kumar, Head of Growth
- Number of Employees: No information is available.
- Revenue: No information is available.
- Known For: Pando is recognized for its AI-powered, no-code unified platform that aims to optimize and automate freight sourcing, transportation management, and freight audit & payments.
Products
- Fulfillment Cloud
- Overview: Pando's Fulfillment Cloud provides a single pane of glass for manufacturers, retailers, and logistics companies to collaborate, orchestrate, and optimize their end-to-end supply chain and delivery operations.
- Inbound and Outbound Fulfillment
- Features:
- Collaborate with suppliers and carriers to enable cost-effective transportation.
- Provide real-time visibility of materials movement.
- Minimize inventory stock-outs or excess.
- Offer solutions for demand fluctuations and supply chain disruptions.
- Freight Procurement
- Features:
- Automate procurement processes with pre-defined templates.
- Benchmark freight rates.
- Scenario planning and dynamic contract management.
- Multi-modal Transportation Management System (TMS)
- Features:
- Optimized transportation planning across multiple transport modes.
- Real-time visibility and collaborative execution of freight movement.
- Freight Audit & Payment
- Features:
- 100% freight spend visibility.
- Automated invoicing and reconciliation.
- Enhanced rate management and payments.
Recent Developments
- Recognition and Awards:
- Pando was recognized by Gartner in the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems.
- Named a leader by G2 in the Fall 2024 Grid® Report.
- Product Launches and Upgrades:
- Introduced the Unified Fulfillment Cloud aimed at providing end-to-end orchestration, optimization, and visibility of supplier and customer deliveries.
- Launched Pando Pay, a fully automated Freight Audit and Payment solution.
- Partnerships and Expansion:
- The company's network has grown to include thousands of carriers, catering to global freight with multi-modal, multi-leg, multi-currency, and multi-geography capabilities.
- Expansion in geographical presence with new offices in Chicago, the Bay Area, Mumbai, and Dubai to meet regional customer needs.
No financial details, such as revenue figures, and specific employee numbers have been disclosed within the available data.
