SmartChain Asset and Shipment Management
Savi SmartChain® Asset Management Solutions (AMS) and SmartChain Shipment Management Solutions (SMS) are the software solutions that serve as the foundation for Savi Technology's industry offerings. The SmartChain Consignment Management Solution (CMS) is a variation of SmartChain SMS, but it focuses on international military operations by supporting the specific NATO STANAG standards and MH-10.
These solution offerings and applications work together to provide organizations with full asset and shipment lifecycle management in a way that standard ERP systems cannot. SmartChain AMS ensures your supply chain and inventory assets are positioned in the right places to service your customers. SmartChain SMS ensures your deliveries arrive on time with the right inventory. This allows your ERP systems to focus on the financial transactions that ERP systems were built to address. Let SmartChain AMS manage your assets. Let SmartChain SMS manage your shipments.
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SmartChain AMS
SmartChain AMS helps customers answer the question, "Where are my assets and how can I utilize them better?"
SmartChain AMS is software that enables organizations to improve asset utilization through real-time tracking of movements and handlings via bar code, RFID, GPS and sensors.
- How much time does your personnel spend searching for misplaced assets?
- Would you benefit from alerts that notify you when work-in-process cycles are delayed?
- How effective are you at tracking your mobile assets throughout your supply chain?
If these questions trouble you, SmartChain AMS may be worth considering. SmartChain AMS drives value through:
Improved visibility: SmartChain AMS captures real-time asset updates and displays them on maps and reports.
Improved utilization: SmartChain AMS identifies and balances over- and under-utilized assets.
Reduced inventory: SmartChain AMS automatically alerts you when supplies arrive or are delayed, making you more informed, and empowering you to manage at reduced inventory levels. This helps you avoid costly expedited shipments and demurrage fees.
SmartChain AMS helps organizations capture these savings by taking a solutions-oriented approach and providing well-established asset management reports and alerts, such as:
Asset utilization report: Compares how much time your assets are being used versus sitting idle
Late arrivals report: Shows whether your planned asset arrivals are on-time, late, or projected to be late
Arrival alerts: Provide alerts triggered by the arrival of urgently needed items
Environmental threshold alerts: Provide alerts that can give you an early warning that the arriving assets may be spoiled or damaged
Projected inventory positioning: Presents a snapshot view of where your inventories stand and where Savi AMS projects them to be based on known and expected asset movements
SmartChain SMS
SmartChain SMS helps customers answer the question, "Where are my shipments and how can I run a more efficient supply chain?"
SmartChain SMS is software that enables organizations to improve shipment visibility and item traceability through real-time tracking of movements and handlings via bar code, RFID, GPS and sensors.
- How much time does your personnel spend tracking down lost shipments?
- Would you benefit from automated alerts that notify you when critical customer deliveries are delayed?
- How effective are you at tracking nested shipments as they move through consolidation and deconsolidation facilities?
If these questions trouble you, SmartChain SMS may be worth considering. SmartChain SMS drives value through:
Improved visibility: SmartChain SMS captures real-time shipment updates and displays them on maps and reports.
Tightened supply chain network: SmartChain SMS serves as a hub for pulling together shipment updates from different partners. Different partners can all access SmartChain SMS with visibility limited to their locations and their shipments.
Extended asset management: By combining SmartChain SMS with SmartChain AMS, organizations can extend the visibility of their assets as they move onto and off of different shipment lifecycles.
Reduced inventory: SmartChain SMS alerts you when supplies arrive or are delayed, making you more informed, and empowering you to manage at reduced inventory levels. This helps you avoid costly rushed shipments and demurrage fees.
SmartChain SMS helps organizations capture these savings by taking a solution-oriented approach and providing well-established shipment management reports and alerts, such as...
Nested visibility report: Presents a hierarchical view of shipments, nested shipments and the shipment contents, where each supply chain owner can only see his contents
Late arrivals report: Supplies a snapshot report that shows whether your planned shipment arrivals are on-time, late or projected to be late
Environmental threshold alerts: Provides alerts that can give you an early warning that the arriving shipment contents may be spoiled or damaged
Solution-Oriented Approach
SmartChain AMS and SMS distinguish themselves from other asset and shipment management offerings by taking a solution-oriented approach. Rather than focusing only on the software, SmartChain AMS and SMS bring integrated offerings that start with the tags and end with the right business decisions. Below are four keys to the solution-oriented approach of SmartChain AMS and SMS (SmartChain Solutions).
Automated data capture: SmartChain Solutions include 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 conditions of your assets.
Managing outside the four walls: SmartChain Solutions model customers, suppliers and business units as discrete entities that share common supply chain transactions. SmartChain Solutions also provide granular permission controls that allow micro-visibility for business units, suppliers and customers with macro-visibility for the parent organization.
Legacy integration: The ability to exchange data with other systems plays a critical role in assessing the big picture. SmartChain Solutions include a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Web Service Framework that facilitates integration via a standardized, flexible approach.
Business intelligence: Ultimately, SmartChain Solutions convey information to logisticians, asset owners and other decision makers. In addition to a standard set of asset 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.
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.
"Dow places the highest priority on safe production and transportation of hazardous materials, and through this best-practices project with Savi we are working aggressively to reduce risk and improve performance. The chemical industry should set the highest standards with advanced technology solutions like this to address concerns and ensure safe passage of chemicals in-transit or at rest."
David Kepler
Executive Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer & Chief Information Officer of The Dow Chemical Company.
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