Military Consignment Management Solution

Military Consignment Management Solution

  • How do you share asset visibility with your allies?
  • How do you monitor inventory levels and resupply troops in the field?
  • How do you know when a consignment arrives at its destination?
  • When you redeploy, how do you locate and prioritize assets for return?

Savi's International Military Consignment Management Solution is powered by the Savi SmartChain® Consignment Management Solution (CMS). SmartChain CMS is a web-based application that enables international militaries to improve consignment visibility and inventory management through real-time tracking of movements and handlings and compliance with the appropriate NATO STANAG standards and MH-10.


Key value drivers of SmartChain CMS include:

  • Centralized inventory management of allied forces: SmartChain CMS provides centralized reporting on all consignment and asset locations across all allies by leveraging the STANAG interoperability standards between allied nations.
  • Monitoring of inventory levels in the field: SmartChain CMS can alert supply chain managers when supply levels in the field start running low. SmartChain CMS receives these in-field updates through automated RFID network reads.
  • Localized inventory reports in the field: SmartChain CMS allows troops in the field to view online consignment and asset reports. Individual consignment manifests can also be accessed by reading the individual RFID tags.
  • Managing the redeployment of assets: As missions are completed, SmartChain CMS can provide prioritized inventory reports specifying which assets need to move where and which assets need to move first.

Bottom line: SmartChain CMS answers the question, "How can I maintain inventory visibility across joint allied operations and ensure in-theater troops have adequate supplies?"

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 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 consignments and inventory levels beyond borders and among allied forces. SmartChain CMS distinguishes itself by taking a solution-oriented approach and focusing on full consignment and asset lifecycle management. Let your troops focus on winning the battles. Let SmartChain CMS focus on your consignments.

  • Automated data capture: SmartChain CMS 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 CMS models nations and operational units as discrete entities that share common supply chain transactions. SmartChain CMS 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 CMS includes a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Web Service Framework that facilitates integration through a standardized, flexible approach.
  • Business intelligence: Ultimately, SmartChain CMS conveys information to logisticians, asset owners and other decision makers. In addition to a standard set of consignment management reports and alerts, SmartChain CMS provides a Software Development Kit (SDK), Data Base Reporting Views, and Alerting Framework to support any customized user interface, reporting and alerting requirements.

SmartChain CMS answers the question, "How can I maintain inventory visibility across joint allied operations and ensure in-theater troops have adequate supplies?"

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.

"Savi's innovative solution has been battle-tested for more than a decade, and we anticipate that it will help us to collaborate more closely with our allies, while creating a more reliable and efficient supply chain in support of the soldier"

Col. Artur Malinowski
Board of Logistics Planning, P-4

Industries

  • International Militaries

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
  • STANAG