Savi launches SmartChain 5.0 to advance supply chain performance with integrated RFID and software networks

Logistics Asia - Technology & Market Trends, 28/4/2008

Savi has launched SmartChain 5.0, a platform and application suite providing new leading-edge capabilities that enhance the performance, business processes and efficiency of supply chains for commercial and government customers.

Savi SmartChain 5.0 leverages Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide a framework for integrating real-time data from all types of wireless technologies about an organizations business processes into its enterprise software systems or information services. The Savi SmartChain platform processes and transforms data into actionable information from any standards-based Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) technology, including bar codes, sensors, passive or active Radio Frequency Identification, cellular, GPS or satellite communications system.

SmartChain 5.0 provides the industry’s greatest possible integration of AIDC and software systems, enabling greater collaboration among trading partners and simplification of complex business challenges throughout supply chains. Savi SmartChain has a worldwide install base that includes numerous commercial shippers and service providers as well as allied defense forces.

Automated alerts of supply chain events and exceptions can be automatically transmitted to the user in a highly secured environment via the Internet, a cell phone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).

In addition to capturing and processing real-time data into actionable information, the enhanced Savi SmartChain is the common platform for Savi’s suite of application software, including Savi SmartChain Asset Management Application, Savi SmartChain Shipment Management Application, and Savi SmartChain Consignment Management Application.

Savi, www.savi.com.