SmartChain Asset Management Application

Delivering Supply Chain Asset Management, Optimization and Performance Management to the Total Supply Chain

Supply chain assets, such as containers, pallets, racks, cages, totes, trays,  railcars, trucks and trailers must be positioned and available to meet the day to day operational needs of the enterprise in depots, distribution centers, yards and ports. However, a lack of visibility to these assets as they move through the supply chain, or where they may be positioned when not in use, often results in misdirected, misplaced and inadvertent stockpiling of supply chain assets. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) and Supply Chain Management applications are unable to track assets beyond the boundaries of the enterprise into suppliers' or customers' supply chains. This lack of asset  visibility can cause a significant surplus of asset inventory leading to excessive capital expenditure or lease, rental and demurrage costs.

Savi’s SmartChain^® Asset Management Application (AMA), a full-featured application that provides continuous on-line visibility, security monitoring, and management of valuable assets, is the solution to these asset management and optimization challenges.  SmartChain Asset Management Application enables companies to track asset location and status, search for and find those assets, and analyze historical information to identify and eliminate bottlenecks, understand asset utilization, perform instant inventories, manage asset losses, and more.  By eliminating labor intensive, error ridden manual tracking systems, as well as high transportation costs associated with relocating assets, SmartChain Asset Management Application increases operational efficiencies and reduces overall costs by streamlining operations, reducing capital, lease, rental and demurrage costs, reducing stock and  on-hand inventory, and increasing asset utilization and the return on assets.

SmartChain Asset Management Application Enables:

• Reduced capital investment
• Reduced lease, rental and demurrage costs
• Reduced operating cost
• Reduced maintenance costs
• Reduced transportation costs
• Increased revenue

SmartChain Asset Management Application’s Key Features:

• Tightly integrated to SmartChain Enterprise Platform for real-time visibility to the extended supply chain
• Real-time supply chain asset management processes and alerts
• Forward reservation of assets
• Alerts and status information for sensor tags and electronic seals
• Supports forecasting of both inbound and outbound demand
• Precise inventory management abilities through accurate planning, scheduling and reliable visibility
• Creates and manages asset reposition requests
• Compatible with automatic data collection technologies including active and passive RFID, barcodes and GPS
• Maintenance and repair scheduling.
• Planning and recommendation for asset allocation and deployment
• Highly configurable exception based business processes
• Role-based configurable access and data security
• Scalable web-based enterprise application
• Integration with ERP, CRM and legacy systems
• Handheld functionality for mobile operations
• Key Performance Measurements, including:

            o  Cycle Time (Demand-to-Deliver & Ship to Cycle)
            o  Asset Turn (Trend & Average Retention Time)
            o  Current Utilization & Trend
            o  Inventory Reports
            o  Audit Reports (Asset Movement, Activity & Process,
                Link & Route Activity)
            o  Planned vs. Actual Reports
            o  Demand