SmartChain Asset and Shipment Management

SmartChain Asset and Shipment Management

  • How much time does your personnel spend searching for misplaced assets?
  • What happens in the field if a shipment does not arrive as scheduled?
  • How do you manage asset data across multiple systems of records?
  • Have you experienced quality problems caused by environmental issues during shipping?

Savi's Defense Asset Management Solution is powered by the Savi SmartChain Asset Management Solution. SmartChain AMS is a web-based application that enables defense organizations to improve asset utilization and maintain better command of major end items and supply chain assets through real-time tracking of movements and handlings via bar code, RFID, GPS and sensors.

Key value drivers of SmartChain AMS include:

  • Improved visibility: SmartChain AMS captures real-time asset updates and displays them on maps and reports. Alerts notify logisticians when their assets arrive, get delayed or divert off course.
  • Improved support for the warfighter: SmartChain AMS helps ensure the right assets are in the correct location and condition to support deployment, sustaining and retrograde operations. As in-field inventory levels deplete beyond specified thresholds, SmartChain AMS knows through automated RFID reads that new supplies must be ordered.
  • Reduced fleet size: SmartChain AMS reports on under-utilized assets so that planners can reposition them to where they are needed most. These reports reduce the pressure on planners to increase fleet sizes and reveal opportunities for retiring under-utilized assets.
  • Automated inventory reconciliation: Savi's fixed infrastructure and mobile handheld solutions can streamline inventory reconciliations through RFID scans. SmartChain AMS maintains asset information regarding when assets were last reported and last reconciled.
  • Subcomponent tracking for major end items: SmartChain AMS provides full asset lifecycle management on sub-components in the context of their major end items. This drives value through cost avoidance resulting from effective use of re-manufacturing lines and avoidance of production latency on the lines.

Bottom line: SmartChain AMS for the defense answers the question, "Where are my assets and how can I better utilize them in supporting the warfighter?"

Today most military organizations rely on error-ridden, labor-intensive manual processes to maintain consignment and asset visibility. Relying on this data can lead to defense goods and materiel becoming misdirected, delayed or lost. This can also cause military units to reorder undelivered materiel to ensure that they do not run out of the supplies needed to support their operations.

These antiquated methods are ill-suited for tracking assets and inventory levels. SmartChain AMS distinguishes itself by taking a solution-oriented approach and focusing on full asset lifecycle management on Major End Items with nested visibility on their distinct sub-components. Let SmartChain AMS take the guess work out of your supply chain and stop relying on manual processes for mission critical decisions.

  • Automated data capture: SmartChain AMS is part of a solution suite that includes SmartChain Site Manager, SmartChain Mobile and SmartChain Workstation Products. These SmartChain Edge products allow you to manage your AIT network and offer an automated means for staying up-to-date on the locations and condition of your assets.
  • Managing consignment movements and handlings beyond your borders: SmartChain AMS models nations and operational units as discrete entities that share common supply chain transactions. SmartChain AMS also provides granular permission controls that allow nations to view their own consignments and selectively grant other nations the ability to view their consignments.
  • Legacy integration: The ability to exchange data with other systems plays a critical role in assessing the big picture. SmartChain AMS includes a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Web Service Framework that facilitates integration through a standardized, flexible approach.
  • Business intelligence: Ultimately, SmartChain AMS conveys information to logisticians, asset owners and other decision makers. In addition to a standard set of consignment management reports and alerts, SmartChain AMS provides a Software Development Kit (SDK), Data Base Reporting Views and Alerting Framework to support any customized user interface, reporting and alerting requirements.

Bottom line, SmartChain AMS for the Defense answers the question, "Where are my assets and how can I better utilize them in supporting the warfighter?"

For more information on Savi's products and solutions, call Savi at 1-888-994-SAVI(7284) or request more information through Savi's online form. To call Savi directly from outside the U.S., you may also contact one of Savi's international offices.

Industries

  • Military

Products

  • SmartChain Server Applications
  • SmartChain Enterprise Platform
  • SmartChain Site Manager
  • SmartChain Edge Applications
  • RFID Infrastructure
  • RFID Tags

Standards & Technologies

  • SOA
  • Reporting Views
  • ISO 18000-7