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THE VALUE OF SAFELY DELIVERING CRITICAL SUPPLIES TO FIGHTING FORCES AT THE RIGHT MOMENT AND PLACE IS BEYOND CALCULATION.
The urgency to track, safeguard, and deliver critical military supplies for unit deployment and sustainment goes far beyond the direct value of the assets. Location, visibility and intrusion detection helps with mission planning, ensures the readiness and safety of troops, and helps eliminate pilfered weapons and assets. To field a force that is strategically responsive and dominant on every point in the spectrum of operations, military logistics must know what the Warfighter needs before he requests it.
HIGH STAKES DEMAND VISIBILITY
Defense forces move a diversity and total value of assets in their supply chains that is greater than most private enterprise. In many countries, defense budgets are under constant political and internal pressure. As a result, armed forces continually battle for greater efficiency and effectiveness. Supply chain intelligence, asset visibility, management and security are among its best options for budget reduction, because they enable defense logistics to reduce costs with little downside.
EXECUTION MUST ALIGN WITH MISSION PLANS
Today, military supply chains require a worldwide, real-time view of its assets deploying unit equipment and sustainment supplies. Data from every type of tracking device and reader has to be monitored continually, and compared to plan data and mission requirements from enterprise planning systems. With an integrated link between real-time asset information and planning systems, defense forces are in a much better position to match execution to logistics plans.
HIGH THREAT SUPPLY ROUTES INCREASE LOGISTICS CHALLENGES
Real-time visibility of supplies and planning system integration is just the starting point for Global Defense asset management and tracking. Deploying and sustaining troops in remote locations through high threat, unpredictable supply routes presents a unique set of logistics challenges for defense forces.
For example, US and NATO militaries must use Pakistani trucking firms to deliver their cargo from the port of Karachi to Afghanistan. This is the main supply route used today to sustain troops in Afghanistan. Restrictions prevent them from providing military escort to secure the supply route.
What military logistics planners need to address these challenges is the ability to analyze asset location and visibility information for security issues. This allows them to identify high threat zones, flag suspect cargo that may require replenishing or pose a hazard to receiving troops, and ultimately provide intelligence to help take preventative measures.