Savi Networks LLC

Savi Networks Global Shipment Visibility and Security

Shared Network Approach for Supply Chain Visibility

The complex and dynamic nature of international supply chains makes tracking and managing the flow of goods in an accurate and timely manner challenging and costly. In an international import or export shipment, often times more than twenty entities physically handle the goods or interact with the twenty or more documents generated. To provide complete visibility about a shipment, companies today obtain and transfer information through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages or custom interfaces with other entities' supply chain applications.

Due to the multiparty and multimodal nature of the global supply chain and the limitations of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), many shippers face the following challenges:

• Information errors and delays due to the variations in schedule, destinations and service providers that have different data gathering processes, supply chain applications and information systems.
• Security threats including the inadvertent misplacement, theft and diversion of inventory, product tampering, and possibly even illegal uses such as for terrorist acts.
• Delays in information transfer and information loss or corruption due to error prone data collection processes that are based on manual data entry of documents.

Commercial companies and the U.S. Department of Defense have proven the capability of RFID networks to deliver information on shipments in private networks, but generally there has not been sufficient economic incentive for shippers or their service provider to attempt to implement global RFID networks.

Savi Networks provides global shippers with an RFID network in major ports worldwide - a network that can be shared by shippers and their service providers - providing shipment information that is rapidly updated as containers move through the supply chain. Now shippers can leverage the use of a global network infrastructure without incurring the costs associated with building a private RFID network and associated software investments.

With Savi Networks' 's Global Shipment Visibility and Security Solution, shippers gain comprehensive, real-time information from source-to-destination about container and cargo status including location, condition of contents (humidity, temperature, etc.), and security of the shipment. Shippers receive real-time alert notifications if a shipment has been misdirected, has not arrived at a designated location, or has been physically tampered. With an open, standards based infrastructure that integrates with existing enterprise systems, all trading partners can exchange data in a common format. Parties remain synchronized, which results in reduced inventory carrying and transportation costs, decreased risks of disruptions, and the flexibility to optimize supply chain operations.

Savi Networks' Global Shipment Visibility and Security Solution provides complete, accurate visibility of all supply chain assets, shipments and inventory.

Savi Networks' Global Shipment Visibility & Security Solution Delivers Customer Value By:

• Reducing inventory carrying costs
• Reducing out-of-stocks
• Reducing lead time variance
• Reducing labor and fees
• Increasing security

Features:

• Automated track and trace web-based visibility
• Data feeds for integration with enterprise systems
• Supply chain measurements and analytics
• Alert notifications for abnormal conditions
• Tamper alerts and audit trails for loss liability
• Chain of custody control at key supply chain hand-offs
• Interoperability with enterprise systems
• Inventory optimization

Savi Networks' Global Shipment Visibility & Security Solution Components:

• Intermodal container visibility services
• Supply chain RFID deployment
• RFID security and sensor tags
• Savi SmartChain® Transportation Security System
• Savi SmartChain Enterprise Platform

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