Outsourcing and offshore development firm Bleum has opened its new Branded ODC facility in Shanghai.

The new branded offshore development center houses an 80 man dedicated team for RedPrairie, a consumer driven optimization company whose supply chain and retail solutions are renown globally.

Starting as a pure software development offshore development center four years ago, the relationship has grown successfully and is now being deepened to create a strategic partnership with the mission of bringing state of the art logistics solutions to customers in the China.

Both Bleum and RedPrairie will invest in excess of US$6 million over the next two years to extend RedPrairie's logistics software product line and introduce it to sophisticated customers in China. Bleum will expand RedPrairie's existing ODC to accommodate 88 staff and include a new business development team to service RedPrairie's growing customer base in China.