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? (more…)

Clark Brings Expertise and Track Record that Leverages Marketing to Transform Businesses and Lead  Markets

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Aug. 26, 2010 – Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] company and leader in wireless solutions to manage supply chains and smart assets, today announced that William Clark has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.  In this newly created role, Clark is responsible for the full spectrum of marketing functions, including market and product strategies, go-to-market activities, branding, communications, analyst relations, public relations, and demand generation.

The addition of Clark to the senior leadership team will enable Savi Technology to leverage new marketing capabilities and drive Savi’s growth into an expanding base of commercial and public sector markets.  In this role, Clark will oversee all of Savi’s efforts for defining, developing and leading market-driven growth strategies in all of the company’s business segments, worldwide. (more…)

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High value assets and their movements are of particular interest to operations managers responsible for the usage of these assets within their facilities. There are many options and approaches for managing these assets. Savi Technology’s methodology is to take a “process approach” and let the process dictate the technology that best fits the application. Understanding a process is like understanding the terrain of a racing track. If you don’t spend time studying it, you may find yourself throwing a 12-cylinder turbo charged BMW onto an unpaved, off-road downhill and off a cliff.

The maturity needed for RFID is less about the technology and more about understanding how it can support business applications and the underlying processes. (more…)

Identification hardware and supply chain management software combine to improve operational logistics

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