Did you realize that 85 percent of the assets required to respond to an emergency involving your agency resides within the private sector?
Posted: Thursday, Sep. 2, 2010 by Roger Thomas
Whether your focus is on transportation and distribution, border control, equipment maintenance, or disaster relief, chances are your agency has made large investments in its supply chain. Because of this dependency on private industry firms and contractors for response capability, it’s critical that civilian agencies are able to effectively manage and maintain continuous visibility into their supply chains.
Agency assets get lost, misrouted or misplaced, resulting in time-consuming and costly delays. Logistics managers often overcompensate by stockpiling assets. How can this be fixed?
Automated tracking and management systems that leverage wireless technologies are now being introduced to federal civilian agencies after being literally battle-proven by the U.S. Department of Defense, which oversees the world’s largest and most complex supply chain. To find out more about these systems, download this whitepaper.
Tags: Automatic Identification and Data Capture, RFID, wireless tracking