Savi Defense Consignment Management Solution
Reducing Defense Supply Chain Materiel
A lack of visibility into the location and status of consignments in military supply chains can lead to defense goods and materiel becoming misdirected, misplaced, delayed or lost. This lack of visibility of consignments can also cause military units and their supporting depots and theater distribution centers to reorder undelivered materiel to ensure that they do not run out of the supplies needed to support their operations. These extra requisitions and the resulting extra consignments causes increased demand on the limited amount of available lift assets such as ships, planes, trains and transport vehicles and further increases the amount of distressed or delayed shipments. This results in a significant surplus of materiel in the total supply chain, critical local shortages at some key locations, and excessive transportation costs. There is also an over dependence on error ridden, labor intensive, manual processes used to track consignments as they move through the supply chain.
The Savi Defense Consignment Management Solution enables military logisticians to identify precisely where consignments are in the supply chain, and accurately forecast when consignments will arrive at the frontline, thus ensuring that the right materiel is in the right place at the right time. As the supply chain assets, such as containers in which consignments are shipped, pass through the supply chain, data is automatically collected from RFID Networks based on Savi's EchoPoint™ technology, bar code scanning, global positioning systems or other data collection methods. When consignments arrive at the remote deployment locations outside of the homeland RFID network, the Savi Early Entry Deployment Kit (EEDSK) and Savi Portable Deployment Kit (PDK) allow forces to quickly and easily set up a mobile RFID chokepoint to track consignments as they pass through the supply chain. Savi Mobile Readers enable forces to search for their consignments among container yards and in theater distribution centers, or forward supply bases by reading the consignment data in the Savi data-rich, active tags. The Savi Defense Consignment Management Solution provides real-time visibility of consignments, giving logisticians control over the flow of shipments so their forces have the necessary equipment and materiel to conduct operations as required. This critical visibility into the supply pipeline has been proven to reduce both the instances of duplicate orders and reduces inventory in the total supply chain as the system moves from a just-in-case to a sense-and-respond methodology.
The Savi Defense Consignment Management Solution Delivers Customer Value With:
- Reduced deployed materiel
- Reduced level of sustaining materiel
- Reduced transportation costs
- Increased productivity through reduced manual processes
- Increased responsiveness of supply chain operations
- Increased speed of deployment and sustaining
- Increased accuracy and reducing time to locate supplies
Key Solution Features:
- Interoperability with allied forces
- Real-Time consignment visibility in the extended supply chain
- Configurable real-time consignment management processes
- Exception-based real-time alerts for frustrated or misdirected shipments
- Accurate and timely automated data collection
- Homeland depot and distribution center RFID networks
- Portable Deployment Kits for rapid deployments
- Scalable web-based application
- Configurable role-based access and data security
Savi Defense Consignment Management Solution Components Include:
- SmartChain® Consignment Management Application
- SmartChain Enterprise Platform
- SmartChain Site Manager
- Savi Portable Deployment Kit (PDK)
- Savi Early Entry Deployment Kit (EEDSK)
- EchoPoint™ Active RFID tags and readers
- AIDC technologies such as passive RFID, bar codes and GPS locating devices
- Implementation, training and support services
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